Showing posts with label Dell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dell. Show all posts

21 November 2009

TECHNOLOGY: Can Dell Computers Rebound?

REUTERS/
Is Austin-area based Dell worth buying or is it too risky? Can the company bounce back in 2010, or do market share losses and small margins mean more trouble? "We have been recommending for some time to investors that they should be investing in HP as opposed to Dell," said analyst Philip Alling. Dell has fallen to third place in the global PC market, behind Hewlett-Packard and Acer.

13 October 2009

Michael Dell Says Company To Be "Reasonably Active" In Acquisitions.

BLOOMBERG/
Dell Computer founder Michael Dell said “You will see us be reasonably active...” looking for acquisitions that bolster sales to corporate customers and would consider more purchases in the health-care industry.

24 September 2009

EU Criticized For Letting Poland Pay Dell $54.5 Million Euros For Move-out.

IRISHTIMES/
Dell computer is moving production from Ireland to a new manufacturing plant in Poland, and the Polish government is giving 54.5 million euros in aid for the factory.
Irish officials are calling the EU's decision a “disgrace”, and would be greeted with outrage in Limerick and throughout Ireland.
“Earlier this year Dell announced that they were relocating the European centre of operations from Ireland to Poland with the loss of 1,900 jobs from their plant in Limerick...taking much-needed jobs from one of the most economically-deprived regions of one member state and allowing them to be relocated in an equally-deprived region of another member state simply defies logic.”

31 August 2009

In Poland, Lodz Thrives.

NYTIMES.
"With multinationals like Procter & Gamble, Dell and ABB leading a wave of foreign investment, cities like Lodz, in central Poland, are experiencing relative booms. Poles who left the country in search of work years ago are trickling back. Poland has also done better than its neighbors because its economy is far less dependent on exports than other Central European countries, where exports can approach 90 percent of the gross domestic product."