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Dell to expand in India, hiring 5,000

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Dell to expand in India, hiring 5,000

Dell, the world’s leading seller of personal computers, announced Monday that it would hire 5,000 more employees in India in the next two years, add a fourth customer support center in the Gurgaon suburbs of Delhi, and explore setting up a manufacturing facility in the country.

Dell’s president and chief executive, Kevin Rollins, detailing the expansion in a news conference in Delhi, said the Gurgaon center would open in April and employ 1,000 people by the end of 2006.

Rollins’s two-day visit to India, which ended Monday, included a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The company already has 10,000 employees in India, and call centers in Bangalore and Hyderabad in the south and Mohali in the north.

But Dell has less than 4 percent market share in India’s fast-growing market for personal computers. About four million PCs are sold in the country each year, a number expected to grow to 20 million annually within the next few years. Building a factory in India would help the company expand its market share, Rollins said.

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