new delhi the automotive industry the vehicle types and the consumer demand and behavior are undergoing rapid changes they impact the auto dealerships in a big way in order to bring standardization in the indian auto retailing sector and facilitate data driven intelligence for the customers etautos top 100 power dealers list 2022 brings out the ranking of the leading dealerships across the countrythe dealerships surveyed for this process are of different business sizes and from all regions of the country according to the research over a third or 37 are large dealers revenue of inr 700 crore and above 31 medium dealers revenue between inr 400 crore and inr 700 crore 142 small dealers revenue between inr 200 crore and inr 400 crore and 17 are micro dealers with revenue of up to inr 200 crore the sample respondents are also democratically spread across segments like twowheelers passenger and commercial vehicles advt about 43 dealers in the ranking list have maruti suzuki as at least one of their brands regionwise the list is dominated by 33 dealers from north 30 from west and 21 from south india only 13 dealers made it to the list from east india followed by 3 dealers from central indiaranked 1 in the top 100 list is kataria automobiles with an annual group revenue of inr 3364 crore in fy21 the gujaratbased dealer has also entered the ev retail business with ather energy by selling 124 units in fy21the study adopted multiple methods including an online survey through questionnaires to over 700 dealer principals across the country sent by etauto and automobile manufacturers however only half or around 350 responded to the online survey this was further processed by our research team and after many layers of filters eventually 200 of them were interviewed over the phone the information was further validated from the data of the oems and ministry of corporate affairs mcaone of the significant trends that the etauto report captures is the impact of the pandemic on the performance of the dealerships most of them lost business and revenue one such example is the chennaibased t v sundram iyengar sons its annual group revenue fell to inr 2462 crore in fy21 from inr 4222 crore in fy20 while the group had been at number 1 position of the top 100 power dealers list in 2018 and 2019 the coronavirus singed everybodys business and spared none sadly a lot of dealers were also reluctant to participate in the survey and did not wish to discuss their performance this included many welldeserving leaders as well who have been regulars on our list in the past in most cases financial details of their business were not updated either on their respective websites or at the governments mca website even without their cooperation we tried to find their relevant information from all possible reliable sources and succeeded in many cases advt for instance the sai service group at the fifth position in the