Dell to sell PCs at Wal-Mart in retail drive
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Dell Inc.  plans to start selling personal computers at 3,500 Wal-Mart  stores in the United States and Canada as of June 10, launching a major drive to sell through retailers, the companies said on Thursday.
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Walmart and Linspire (formerly Lindows) have partnered up to sell a sub $500 laptop through the large retail chain. &quot;Walmart.
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Dell Inc , said on Friday  British retailer Tesco  will sell Dell personal  computers in outlets across Europe.
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(InfoWorld) - Dell will sell a wider variety of television sets made by other manufacturers over its Web site but denied reports that it plans to stop making LCD TVs. A number of industry blogs reported Thursday that Dell would exit the LCD display market as soon as June, citing a story in the Taiwanese newspaper Economic Daily. That move would allow the company to focus on selling more profitable PCs, the report said. On Thursday, Dell acknowledged that it is making changes to its TV line, but said it will continue to sell Dell-branded televisions with screens of 37 inches and smaller. "We will soon offer a wider assortment of televisions from leading manufacturers that feature the latest technology and meet Dell's high standards for performance," said Dell spokeswoman Rachel Lyon. The first step in that plan was Dell's move in February to add Sony LCD televisions with screens between 40 inches and 46 inches to the range of products sold on Dell.com, she said. Dell also sells TVs made by Matsushita ElectricÂ (Panasonic), Pioneer, Samsung, and ViewSonic. "Nothing has changed from what we communicated in February," Lyon said. If Dell's television lineup remains constant, it will be one of the few parts of the company to avoid sweeping changes in coming months. Dell is in the midst of a corporate reorganization that includesÂ laying off 10 percent of its 88,100 workersÂ in an effort to rebound from sinking profit and market share, the company said when it reported quarterly earnings last Thursday. The changes also include an overhaul of the company's core business model. On May 24, the company saidÂ it will soon begin selling desktop PCs in Wal-Mart retail stores, marking a departure from the "direct sales" approach it used to become the world's largest PC vendor until 2006. In recent quarters,Â Dell lost that title to rival Hewlett-PackardÂ in a slump that pushed company founderÂ Michael Dell to return to the job of chief executiveÂ after stepping aside to become chairman in 2004. It will take time until those reforms can begin to stop Dell's losses. The company was the only one of the world's top five PC vendors to ship fewer computers in the first quarter of 2007 than in that same period in 2006, according to a report released Tuesday by iSuppli. Dell held onto its second-place ranking behind HP even though its shipments dropped 6.8 percent. In comparison, HP shipped 26.5 percent more PCs during the first quarter than a year ago, and Acer. showed a huge increase of 45.8 percent, allowing it pass Lenovo and move into third place, iSuppli said.
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Dell has entered into an agreement with Wal-Mart that will put its desktops in 3,400 of the chain's stores beginning June 10, retailing for under $700.
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Dell moves beyond direct sales to market two models of desktops through Wal-Mart in June.
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Dell plans to sell computers with preinstalled Linux outside the U.S. as well as offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small business customers.
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Dell Inc. DELL.O plans to open its   own retail stores on a city-by-city basis and does not expect   to sell its personal computers through shops like Best Buy Co.   BBY.N, a senior executive said on Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO/ BOSTON  - Dell Inc.  said  on Thursday it plans to start selling personal computers  through Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  in North America next  month, breaking from a 23-year model of direct sales as it  tries to rekindle business.
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Another $400, 2-lb. Linux-based mini-laptop will arrive in U.S. Wal-Mart stores by the end of this month.
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(InfoWorld) - Underlining its expansion from online to retail sales, Dell launched desktop and notebook PCs Tuesday at Macy's department store in New York. The company announced nine new Inspiron desktops and notebooks and an XPS M1330 notebook, all available in a choice of eight shell colors. "The Dell of today is vastly different from the Dell of six months ago or even last week," said Alex Gruzen, senior vice president of Dellâs consumer product group. "We're here at Macy's in New York City. That alone is different for Dell, being in a department store or any kind of retail setting at all." Dell even set up a portable kiosk to take orders for the new PCs in a temporary space it will occupy at Macy's for the next two weeks, he said. The new Inspiron notebooks cost $749 for the model 1521 to $999 for the model 1720, with a choice of processors from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. The Inspiron 1420 comes with an additional choice of Microsoft's Windows Vista or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, for $799. The Inspiron desktops start at $349 for models 530, 530s, 531, and 531s, all supporting up to 500GB of disk space to store digital media files, with the model 530 offering a choice between Windows and Linux. The XPS M1330 notebook costs $1,299 with a 13.3-inch widescreen display, weighs under 4 pounds, and comes with a one-year subscription to Dell's Online Backup service, where users can store 10GB of files on Dell servers for remote data access. In an effort to bolster its sliding market share and quarterly profits,Â Dell began selling certain PC models at Wal-MartÂ retail stores on June 10, marking the first time it had strayed from the direct sales model. Dell rose to prominence by cutting its costs through eliminating retail middlemen and selling its PCs through only its Web site, phone lines, and catalogs. That system began to fail in 2006, as competitors cut costs and Hewlett-Packard passed Dell to become the world's largest PC vendor. Now Dell is in the midst of a corporate reorganization announced May 31 that includesÂ laying off 10 percent of its 88,100 workers. Dell hopes its new retail presence will allow it to fix a strategic mistake. By trying to beat its competitors through low prices in recent years, Dell found itself spending all its publicity efforts promoting its least exciting products, Gruzen said. Selling PCs in retail stores gives Dell an opportunity to showcase its premium PC models and bring new luster to its corporate image at the same time. "This is really just a hint of what we're doing to get these exciting new products into customers' hands," Gruzen said. "We have a broader retail strategy, and over the coming months, we will announce more partnerships, both with Wal-Mart and with other retailers." Also on Tuesday, Dell unveiled a new marketing tagline -- "yours is here" -- that shares many values with HP's "the computer is personal again" campaign. Both companies are increasing the number of options they give customers to personalize PCs and bundling tools that make it easier to handle personal tasksÂ such asÂ digital photos and music as well as business jobs. Dell emphasized those increased choices with its color options for each PC, including pink, yellow, green, red, and blue, as well as standard white and black. An increasing number of PC vendors will soon begin to follow that pattern, trying to differentiate themselves with flashy style and design instead of solely through technical detailsÂ such asÂ processing power, according to a report released this week by Forrester Research. "The consumer PC industry is entering the Age of Style, a time in which radical form factor innovations, increased aesthetic diversity, and consumer choice and personalization will determine which models, and which PC vendors, win or lose," Forrester analyst J.P. Gownder said in the report.
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Wal-Mart, through Walmart.com, its online vehicle, has charged into the Linux-based notebook market with its US$498 Balance laptop, which runs the Linspire operating system.
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Dell Inc. (DELL.O), the world's largest PC maker, could announce an expanded selection of its consumer electronics line in the next several weeks, a retail industry analyst said on Wednesday.
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In the news release, "Dell Computers to Arrive at Wal-Mart  This Weekend," issued earlier today by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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The start-up delivers its pocket-size PC to U.S. shelves.
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Don't look on the Dell Web site for home AMD-based PCs. The company is selling them only in brick and mortar stores or via phone orders now.
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Dell Inc , the world's No.2 personal computer maker, said it would sell its latest range through China's largest electronics retailer, GOME Group, aiming to improve on its single-digit mainland market share.