'We are increasing our footprint, but other markets also compete - like Indonesia or Vietnam.'
PC maker Lenovo India will start manufacturing 50,000 GPU-based AI servers in India next year, the company said on Tuesday. Besides this, Lenovo announced setting up its fourth largest research and development centre in Bengaluru. Lenovo India managing director Shailendra Katyal said that the company will make servers locally and also export them from its manufacturing unit in Puducherry.
"To become customers' favourite, it is important to understand customers' needs, learn their problems and provide them better comfort and service. We are planning to open more exclusive showrooms, retail partnerships and other channel programmes to reach more customers."
Lenovo India on Friday introduced one of India's first desktop personal computer with the rupee symbol on its keyboard, compatible with Microsoft software.
After increasing its market share from 7.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2010 to 10 per cent in the first quarter this year, Lenovo India is ready to take on Apple, Samsung and domestic tablet PC vendors with its own Lenovo Ideapad and Thinkpad tablets.
"To become customers' favourite, it is important to understand customers' needs, learn their problems and provide them better comfort and service. We are planning to open more exclusive showrooms, retail partnerships and other channel programmes to reach more customers."
"ThinkPad X1 is a premium notebook, which ranges from Rs 90,000 onwards and is the world's slimmest thinkpad measuring less than 17 mm. The product will be available at retail outlets. However, our focus is enterprise customers as it a premium product," Lenovo India Managing Director Amar Babu said.
Tech major Lenovo on Thursday said it is significantly ramping up its local manufacturing capabilities in India across product categories like PCs, notebooks and smartphones to meet the increasing customer demand. While the company did not disclose the investment being made, Lenovo said it is expanding in India across all business lines, including PC and smart devices, smart phones, infrastructure solutions, and especially in the newly established services and solutions group. Lenovo has expanded its in-house PC manufacturing plant in Puducherry to include a third manufacturing line, while it has started local manufacturing of its tablet computers in partnership with Wingtech Technology in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
Earlier this month, retail associations across the country held a meeting with the hardware manufacturers industry body -- MAIT -- to raise the issue of undercutting prices.
The Chinese PC manufacturer looks to ride its India success and tap the promising mobile devices market.
The number of consumers adopting smarter, wireless technology in the country is on the rise.
Lenovo is set to introduce tablet computers in the Indian market within the next two quarters, Amar Babu, managing director, Lenovo India, said on Friday.
From market leader HP and premium player Apple to China's Lenovo and Asus, all major brands in the market are witnessing rapid surge in the demand for notebooks.
'Our visit gives us an opportunity to understand the culture of the country.'
Lenovo, the Chinese giant which acquired IBM's PC business a year ago, is aggressively positioning its ThinkPad brand of notebook products for the small and medium business customers in India.
Leading computer makers, including Lenovo and HP, are set to hike prices of their products by up to 10 per cent in coming weeks, hit by increasing input costs due to rupee's southward journey.
The company launched eight products across price points under its new range of consumer laptops, targeting professionals, gamers and students
Some of the players in the GST race are Payworld, Dell, Tally Solutions
According to CyberMedia Research, over 7.46 lakh tablets were sold in the January-March 2014 quarter by as many as 30 domestic and international vendors.
Companies bank on festive season to beat slow market blues
Come July, mobile phone prices are expected to be dearer by up to 10 per cent due to the steep depreciation in the value of rupee against dollar.
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