India, Dec. 27 -- Osamu Suzuki, the Chairman of Suzuki Motor Corp, passed away from lymphoma on Wednesday, December 25, 2024. He was 94.

He ran the company for several decades, driving its global expansion. The company is currently India's largest automaker. Osamu Suzuki also formed partnerships with General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG to sell vehicles in North America and Europe, and a capital alliance partnership with Toyota in 2019, according to a Bloomberg report.

"If I were to listen to everybody, it would make things too slow," the report quoted him as having said in "I'm a Small-Business Boss," a Japanese-language memoir published in 2009. "Never stop, or else you lose."

He was also the longest-serving head of a global automake...