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What we compareHero MotoCorpTVS Motor Company
Country in archiveIndiaIndia
Founded19841911
FounderBrijmohan Lall MunjalT. V. Sundram Iyengar
HeadquartersDelhi, Delhi, IndiaChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Name origin"Hero" is the brand name used by the Munjal brothers for their flagship company, Hero Cycles. The motorcycle venture first carried it alongside Honda as Hero Honda, and became Hero MotoCorp in 2011 after the partnership ended.TVS comes from the initials of T. V. Sundram Iyengar, who began Madurai's first bus service in 1911 and founded the transport business from which the TVS Group grew.
HighlightsCD 100, Splendor, Karizma, Xpulse 200Apache, Jupiter, Victor, TVS 50
Earliest archived brand logo1984—
Latest archived logo2011undated
Archived logo assets21

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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