L to R: Sharad Mohan Mishra, President, Group Strategy, TVSM; Sudarshan Venu, Chairman, TVSM; Richard Arnold, Executive Director, Norton Motorcycles; Nevijo Mance, Executive Director, Norton Motorcycles
MILAN -- Norton Motorcycles has unveiled its Resurgence strategy at EICMA, a long-term approach underpinned by the substantial investment by TVS Motor Company (TVS) since it acquired Norton Motorcycles in April 2020. Five years in the making, this rebirth is based on a cascade of innovative new models defined by Norton’s core attributes - a combination of Design, Dynamics and Detail that will create the world’s most desirable motorcycles.
Benefiting from investments that have exceeded £200 million into a flagship manufacturing base and company headquarters in Solihull, Norton’s rebirth within the TVS family is a measured and strategic reconstruction of a brand. This Resurgence Strategy is not built on nostalgic marketing rhetoric, but on significant investment, engineering excellence, inimitable design and a cascade of innovative new models that draw on the past to define Norton’s position in the future.
Norton’s sophisticated new Solihull site, which opened 2021, represents the physical embodiment of this transformation. Operating as a global hub for research, development and design, it has the scale to build 8000 motorcycles a year. It benefits from TVS’s wider manufacturing systems and supply chain infrastructures, while maintaining independent design and brand control in the UK. Recent expansion and refitting in readiness for production of the all-new Manx model line has resulted in a 25 per cent increase in the workforce.
Today’s global debut of two flagship models Manx R and Manx heralds a coherent roadmap of four all-new models that will combine rider-centric innovation and distinctive design in Norton's own inimitable way.
The Manx and Manx R sports models exemplify Norton’s unwavering commitment to technical innovation, emotional design, and real-world performance. The all-new Atlas and Atlas GT are middleweight adventure bikes that will rejuvenate the concept of rugged and torquey machines that are equally at home both off and on the road.
Norton’s Resurgence is celebrated by its all-new logo, a forward-looking and visually relevant interpretation of the brand’s ethos that’s faithful to Norton’s past but befitting for a new age for Norton. Inspired by the company’s formative activities over the last five years.
