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Published on 26th March 2010
Source: http://techie-buzz.com/india-tech/dell-moving-china-operations-to-india.html
According to reports from Indian newspaper Hindustan Times, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, Dell, has allegedly announced that it is quitting it's operations in China and moving them to India. The announcement comes as a shock to China, just after the Internet search engine Google shut down most of its operations in China following censorship and hacking issues. Dell has confirmed the movement of $25 million in factories from China to India.
Dell founder & CEO Michael Dell apparently met the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Tuesday. Dell reportedly said that they were looking for a “safer environment with [a] climate conducive to enterprise.” Dr. Singh has told reporters that Michael Dell was looking for a country “with security of a legal system.” The Prime Minister has also directed the Planning Commission to work towards the development of computer hardware industry in India.
This is not Dell’s first foray in India. The company already has one factory in India. Michael Dell had previously said that “India is a great place to be in” and that “It is growing faster than China for us.”
After Google’s decision to quit the country earlier this week, a lot of other companies have expressed the desire to move their operations outside China. Two prominent names are GoDaddy and Dell. Google had previously mentioned that several big U.S. companies were facing cyber attacks in China. With this trend, we may see other major players pulling out of the Chinese market.
Update: Dell denies talks on shifting sourcing from China http://goo.gl/Zqlc
