ABSTRACT: In India, car accessories is a new concept which has gained popularity in recent times with growing usage of high end cars. The market can be divided into interior and exterior car accessories. In the Indian market, interior car accessories are more popular. The growing youth is providing a fillip to the market due to their perceptions and preferences. Although small cars are preferred by Indian consumers, the trend of using high-tech accessories in cars is growing rapidly. I’m going to analyse the demand and supply of car accessories market in trichy. The report begins with introduction, the car accessories market, demand for car accessories, factors affecting demand for car accessories, supply of car accessories, market and …show more content…
So they also create demand in car accessories market. Then the accident cars come to reinstall the accessories after the tinkering works. The most common accessories which has a high demand is window sun control films, audio systems, speakers, stainless steel bumpers, seat covers, car perfumes, extra horns & lamps, number plates and spoilers by the middle class people in the car accessories market. Some of the luxury products that are demanded by the high class people and car lovers are LCD monitor, subwoofers, car parking sensors, rear camera, GPS, alloy wheels etc. These are the demand in the car accessories market in trichy. In trichy, the pioneer of car accessories shop is Annai accessories shop, they have three branches there in trichy. In an average there are 20 cars comes for accessories installation per day. In that 65% are new cars and 25% used cars and 10% are the accident cars which come per day. Because of huge demand they have to order some products before itself. In an average to install all the main accessories for a new car takes 5 to 6 hours to install it. In a year approximately more than 500 multi brand cars are sold in trichy. So there is a demand for car accessories for those 500 cars. FACTORS AFFECTING DEMAND FOR CAR ACCESSORIES: The factors affecting demand for car accessories are • People’s perception. • Attitude of the people. • Price of the cars. PEOPLE’S PERCEPTION:
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