The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : Stone laid for Dell campus

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Wednesday, Dec 08, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Stone laid for Dell campus

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, DEC. 7. The foundation-stone for Dell's new campus was laid by the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy on a 6.6-acre site in the Hitec City at Madhapur on Tuesday.

According to a press release issued here later, the facility was likely to be completed by October 2005 when Dell would move its customer contact centre operations to it. The customer contact centre has been operating from leased premises in Hyderabad since March 2003. Dell's new campus would be a 3 lakh sq ft facility with state-of-the-art offices, cafeteria, gymnasium and other modern facilities.

Its operations in Hyderabad have grown rapidly since March 2003, and it now has 2,200 employees. The Chief Minister has invited Dell to consider expansion to Visakhapatnam and also establishing their hardware-assembling centre in Andhra Pradesh.

Mr. John Hamlin, senior vice-president of Dell's US Consumer and International Services segments, Mr. Dagoberto Quintana, vice-president of Dell International Services, and Romi Malhotra, Managing Director of Dell India, attended the ceremony.

Third centre soon

Hyderabad facility is Dell's second customer contact centre in India. The first one was opened in Bangalore in May 2001. It opened its sales and marketing office in Bangalore in 1996. In November, Dell announced that a third centre would be opened in Chandigarh in March 2005.

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