Dell Signs Deal to Locate Plant in India
Dell Inc., the worlds biggest personal computer maker, signed an agreement Thursday with the government of Tamil Nadu to locate a manufacturing plant in the southern Indian state to help serve new clients in the fast-growing computer market.
The company, based in Round Rock, Texas, said it expects to begin manufacturing in India by early 2007, focusing initially on production of desktop computers, which make up about 70 percent of Dells current business in the country.
The new facility and related operations will be located at a 50 acre site at a technology park just outside the state capital Chennai, earlier known as Madras.
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