Bengaluru, 19August 2026: Kia India, one of the country’s leading mass-premium carmakers, today inaugurated its new Dealer Training Academy at Supernova Kia in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. With a capacity to train approximately 250 personnel per month, the academy strengthens Kia India’s approach to developing skilled and knowledgeable dealer teams across Sales and Service.
The academy enables dealer-led Level-1 training programmes for sales and service teams across group dealerships. By creating localised training infrastructure, Kia India ensures faster induction of new manpower, continuous upskilling of existing teams, and reduced dependency on centralised training. This approach helps build deeper role-based expertise while improving workforce stability at the dealership level.
With this initiative the customers benefit from clearer communication, quicker service turnaround times, uniform service standards, and a more seamless ownership experience, regardless of location.
Designed to address both current and future business needs, the academy emphasises technical proficiency, behavioural skills, and service quality excellence, ensuring Kia’s expanding customer base continues to experience reliable, transparent, and high-quality engagement across touchpoints.
The Ahmedabad facility builds on Kia India’s first Dealer Training Academy, inaugurated earlier this year at Incheon Kia in Kochi, further strengthening the company’s focus on bringing structured learning closer to its dealer network. The company now has two Dealer Training Academies with a combined capacity to train approximately 500 personnel per month, reinforcing its commitment to building skilled dealer teams and delivering a consistent customer experience across its Sales and Service network.
About Kia India
In April 2017, Kia India signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the State Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, to build a new manufacturing facility at Anantapur District. Kia commenced mass production in August 2019 and has an installed annual production capacity of 400,000 units. In April 2021, Kia India reimagined itself in line with its new brand identity, “Movement that Inspires,” aimed at offering customers meaningful experiences backed by innovative products and services. Under the new brand identity, Kia has set out to find ways to achieve new benchmarks and inspire consumers to be more and do more. Till date, Kia India has launched nine vehicles for the Indian market – the Seltos, the Syros, the Sonet, the Carens, the Carnival, the EV6, the EV9, the Carens Clavis, and the Carens Clavis EV. Kia India has completed almost 1.9 million vehicle dispatches from its Anantapur plant, including over 1.5 million domestic sales and over 3.67 lakh exports. With more than 5 lakh connected cars on Indian roads, it is among the connected Car leaders in the country. The brand has a widespread network of 892 touchpoints across 407 cities and is focused on strengthening its footprint across the country.
