Many people might not have heard the name of Sumant Mulgaonkar. But everyone knows Tata Sumo.Tata Sumo's name is named after Sumant Mulgaonkar. Tata Motors launched a car in the market dedicated to one of their capable employee. Whose name was Tata Sumo.

Many stories of Sumant Mulgaonkar are still spread in Tata group. If you do Google, you will get a lot of information.The anecdote I'm going to tell here is very interesting. After joining the Tata group, Sumant worked on different ideas for the betterment of the company. Their ideas were very practical and successful. Made him Vice President of Iron and Steel. He deposited there. He became the MD of Tata Motors while climbing the stairs. At that time Tata Motors had to lose continuously to compiters and some foreign companies, Tata's trucks were nothing in front of these company's trucks.

He was constantly engaged in research and development work but was not getting success. She suddenly disappeared in the day for a while. Then after a few months, Tata's trucks started getting huge appreciation unexpectedly. Truck sales increased and other companies were not seen nearby.This few months they spent on the highway with truck drivers who came to have lunch there.

The MD of Tata Motors was engaged in deep research on truck needs, deficiencies, market demand etc while having lunch with them at Dhabas. Who better than truck drivers to talk about this.Sumant caught the shortcomings of trucks, understood the needs of the drivers, know what improved in quality. Understood everything related to trucks, from accidents to load bearing capacity and launched them in my new product according to drivers.

Tata Motors launched Tata Sumo in the name of Sumant Mulgaonkar. But we kept thinking sumo is strong like wrestlers so its name is tata sumo.