Think of it as the yin to the yang of Foxconn, the assembler of gadgets for Apple and others, which has more than 1 million Chinese workers on its production lines.

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The vehicle assembler simply takes in and fits what the customer wants.

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By country, Chinese local brands now account for 32 percent of the total, their highest ever, with Geely, BYD, Great Wall and Chery all finishing on the top 10 assembler list for the month.

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Harvard-educated Anand, soon to turn 56, represents the third generation of the Mahindra clan to run the family enterprise that his paternal grandfather and great-uncle founded in 1945 as a steel trader and then an assembler of Willys Jeeps.

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