Dell Sees Growth in Asia
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Dell Inc. expects shipments of personal computers, notebooks and servers in Asia, excluding China, Japan and South Korea, to grow almost 20 percent in 2007.
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Dell Inc. DELL.O said on Thursday it   would locate its first Indian manufacturing facility in the   state of Tamil Nadu, following a memorandum of understanding   between the firm and state officials.
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In its latest Asian Development Outlook released today, the ADB said GDP growth projections for 2004 have been raised by about half a percentage point in both East Asia and Southeast Asia.
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AUSTRALIA and India have remained the stand out markets for PC growth in the Asia Pacific region, growing 30 and 19 per cent respectively in the third quarter, according to new research.
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Dell Inc  said on Monday it would sell its latest range of personal computers through China's largest electronics retailer, GOME Group, aiming to improve on its single-digit mainland market share.
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The search giant is playing catch-up in Asia, according to new survey results released Sunday.
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Dell Inc  returned to  double-digit percentage growth in global PC shipments in the  fourth quarter as its new retail sales strategy began to pay  off, while rival Hewlett-Packard Co's  growth slowed,  technology researcher IDC said on Wednesday.
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Dell Inc. , the world&#39;s  second-largest computer maker, said on Thursday it will soon  start selling its laptops and desktops at Asian retail chains  and stores.
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Dell is expanding its manufacturing operations in Europe by building a facility at Lodz, Poland to meet increased demand and support the company's growth across Central and Eastern Europe. Scheduled to open in Autumn 2007, the new facility is expected to employ around 1,000 people initially.
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Asian shares rose on Thursday, led by  exporters such as Honda and Samsung and resource stocks, after  upbeat U.S. growth data eased worries about the health of the  economy in Asia's biggest export market.
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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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Economies in developing Asia are expected to expand 7.7 percent this year, higher than the 7.2 percent initially projected, thanks to booming growth in China and India, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday.
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The head of DHL express delivery in Asia is applauding efforts by Thailand and Singapore to speed up economic reforms in Southeast Asia, but he warns that if the region doesn&#39;t work better as a group, less developed nations will lag farther behind.
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(InfoWorld) - PC vendors reported global shipment growth of 12.5 percent in the second quarter as every major vendor except Dell posted a double-digit percentage increase in unit shipments compared to the same period last year, according to a report released Wednesday by IDC. Dell shipped 4.9 percent fewer PCs during the quarter than it did in 2006 as the company continued to struggle with a corporate restructuring effort that has included deep job cuts, changes in executive leadership, and a new strategy of selling computers through retail channels instead of only online. In contrast, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) consolidated its position as the world's largest PC vendor with unit shipment growth of 36.5 percent. Overall, vendors sold 58.8 million PCs in the quarter, IDC said. A report released on the same day by Gartner showed similar results with Dell sliding 5.5 percent compared to HP's growth of 36.6 percent. Gartner reported that global PC shipments rose 11.7 percent to 61.1 million units. HP is seeing good results because of a multifaceted approach that allows the company to concentrate its sales efforts on new regions if sales slump in another sector, said David Daoud, manager of the personal computing and PC tracker programs at IDC. "They are not putting all their eggs in a single basket," he said. "That is the result for a company that has adopted a multifaceted approach. PC shipments were slightly better than expected in the U.S., but they have done even better outside the U.S. in emerging markets and western Europe. So they can manage multiple regions." Despite the contrast in trends, none of the top five vendors changed their worldwide rankings by market share. For the quarter, HP claimed the top spot with 19.3 percent of global PC sales volume, leading Dell with 16.1 percent, Lenovo with 8.3 percent, Acer with 7.2 percent and Toshiba with 4.1 percent, according to IDC. The Gartner study showed the same rankings. However, Acer could soon begin to climb the rankings, if its success continues. The company improved its PC shipment volume by 55.4 percent in the second quarter, pulling close behind Lenovo, which grew at 22.3 percent. "Acer is laser-focused on particular segments, especially SMB and channel resellers," Daoud said. "They are just plowing." In the U.S., Acer is only the sixth-biggest PC vendor but showed the fastest rise in shipments, improving by 163.8 percent over the second quarter of 2006. Overall, the U.S. market is lead by Dell with 28.4 percent market share by shipments, then HP with 23.6 percent, Gateway and Apple with 5.6 percent each, Toshiba with 5.3 percent, and Acer with 5.2 percent. IDC counts PC shipments including sales of desktops, notebooks, ultraportables, and x86 servers, but not handhelds. Overall, the global market achieved its 12.5 percent shipment growth in the quarter thanks to good activity in the Asia-Pacific region and to slightly better than expected activity in the U.S., Daoud said. That growth rate was higher than the first quarter, when shipments rose 10.9 percent over that period in the previous year, and higher than the second quarter of 2006, when shipments rose 9.7 percent year on year. For the future, consumers continue to buy notebooks instead of desktops as the cost premium between the two models has narrowed to its smallest differential yet. IDC forecast strong growth in the second half of 2007 but said that market competition will be more complex than just cutting prices. Instead, PC vendors will try to get customers' attention with system design, customer service, channel coverage, and market expansion.
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(InfoWorld) - DellÂ has selected Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu in southern India, as the location for its first PC manufacturing plant in the country. It plans to begin manufacturing in India in the first half of next year, with an initial focus on the production of desktop computers, it said on Thursday. Desktops account for about 70 percent of Dell's business in India. The computer maker said in January that it would set up a manufacturing facility in India but hadn't picked a location at the time. The plant is intended to serve the domestic market, although the company may consider exporting some of the computers in the future, said Rajan Anandan, Dell's vice president of India sales. The facility will be able to produce close to 400,000 PCs a year when it opens, increasing to 1 million units a year depending on the growth of Dell's business in India, he said. Having a manufacturing facility in India will enable Dell to deliver products to customers there more quickly, and also reduce its freight costs and import duties. Those savings would translate into lower prices for customers, he added The cost of manufacturing in India is comparable to that in China or Malaysia, Anandan said. Dell's shipments in India increased 82 percent in its most recent quarter, ended in August, while revenue grew 63 percent. However, the company still trailed behind rivals Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo Group, and local vendor HCL Infosystems, according to IDC (India). As in other areas where it has set up manufacturing plants, the company expects the new facility to create an ecosystem of suppliers around Chennai to provide components and other parts required for computer manufacture, Anandan said. "We will move quickly to making our other products, including servers, notebooks, and monitors, in India," he added. Chennai is the home constituency of India's communications and information technology minister, Dayanidhi Maran. Several big technology companies have set up manufacturing facilities there, including mobile phone makers Nokia and Motorola. Tamil Nadu offers Dell access to a highly skilled workforce and a large base of customers, the company said. Dell has other manufacturing facilities in Asia, in Penang, Malaysia, and Xiamen, China. Some of its competitors, such as Lenovo, already have computer assembly operations in India. Â
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Dell Inc.  expects  production in China for domestic sales to keep growing at about  30 percent in the short term, meaning the PC giant might add  another factory there in three to four years, its top  manufacturing executive for the country said.
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Dell is looking to open its second European production plant, its chairman says, and a source familiar with the plan says the company is considering a location in France.