Yamaha has decided to do a little restructuring of its business formation. Yamaha Motor India Private Limited is going to be restarted and is going to function as the regional headquarters along with corporate control body in the sub continent. The restructuring of Yamaha took place a few weeks back. India Yamaha Motor is going to be responsible for strategising, planning and decision making for the corporate, thereby regulating the firms business operations in India. This unit will also ensure the quality control, regional control and expansion of Yamaha in India. Manufacturing is going to come under IYM as per the new hierarchy while YMIS and YMRI are going to be support companies for sales, development of products and marketing. The Yamaha Motor Corporation has been elected as the head company while Yamaha Motor India, Yamaha Motor India Sales and Yamaha Motor Research & Development India will be working under it. On the other hand, India Yamaha Motor is expected to receive more support than YMC and Mitsui & Co combined.

Hiroyuki Suzuki, who was Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of India Yamaha Motor, has been given the post of Managing Director of Yamaha Motor India. Suzuki, in addition, is also the chairman of other group firms in the country. This group of companies includes India Yamaha Motor, Yamaha Motor India Sales Private Limited and Yamaha Motor Research & Development India Pvt. Ltd. (YMRI). Takashi Terabayashi, who was the Deputy Managing Director of India Yamaha Motor, has now been made the Managing Director of Yamaha Motor India.