Dell Computers coming to India with manufacturing facility

New Delhi, May 3 (UNI) Dell Computers, the US-headquartered I T major which has already set up its global support centres in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mohali, is finally coming to India with a manufacturing facility.

''They have decided to come here with their manufacturing facility'', a senior level government official who held talks with top Dell Computers management, told UNI.

Dell Computers, known for its online supplies of its range of products, including personal computers, is scouting around for a suitable place for its assembly line. The company's worldwide business model of online supplies would be followed here as well, sources said.

In China, Dell Computers has a manufacturing unit and it has been mulling about stengthening its Indian presence for quite some time.

Company officials who had met Finance Minister P Chidambaram at Davos, met senior officials at the recently-concluded Hannover Fair, in which India was a partner country.

Dell's BPO business has grown quite well in India with the company having established three sites in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chandigarh.

Dell Computers follows a business model maintaining a zero inventory model. A computer is assembled passing through different quality control stages within six hours of a placement of an order.

UNI PC RA KP1811