Dell Sets Its Sights On China

With Deal To Sell Its Products Through China's Top Electronics Store

(AP)  Dell Inc., the world's second-largest seller of personal computers, said Monday it had struck a deal to sell its PCs and notebooks through China's largest electronics retailer.

The deal with Gome Group, the parent company of Hong Kong-listed Gome Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd., will start with 50 Gome stores next month and expand to more stores in the first half of next year, Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said in a statement before the start of a joint news conference.

"For Dell, this is a great opportunity to extend connections with Chinese customers we have not reached in the past. We look forward to a long and mutually rewarding relationship with Gome," Michael Tatelman, vice president of marketing and sales for Dell's global consumer business, said in the statement.

He said the deal would include putting Dell employees in Gome stores.

Until now, Dell sales in China have been done by phone and the Internet.

Beijing-based Lenovo Group Ltd., which bought IBM Corp.'s PC business in 2005, and Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's biggest computer seller, have the biggest market share in China.

Dell has also announced similar retail sales deals with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the United States, Bic Camera Inc. in Japan and Carphone Warehouse PLC in Britain.

[nskduke1]

What the hell Dell!

[edintex]

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[hypnotoad72]

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[barbaraf4]

hypnotoad72 - I enjoy your posts.

It is my understanding that China is financing our Iraqi War. This is more of this Administration''s smoke and mirrors. I imagine Dell, like all other companies going to China, is getting some deep tax cuts. Just think....our next computers may be recalled due to lead paint!!

My fear is that China will call their note. They will then own the United States without one shot being fired. We will have 100% employment - in sweatshops.

[hypnotoad72]

barbaraf4 - the people allowed themselves to be dumbed down; things made for ''ease to use''... I doubt corporate leaders told television networks and other ''cultural'' outlets to persuade people to hate the intellectuals, brainy, nerds, geeks, and so on, as some big form of covert 4-decade plan to destroy this country...

In a way, it is funny. Most products sell on the ''ease of use'' factor, and then the people who sell them turn around and call everybody dumb. Maybe you do have a strong point after all.

One other note - if corporations are supposed to stand on their own two feet and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, et cetera, how come many large multinational/US corporations get ''government subsidy''? As the bumper sticker once read, ''Corporate fathers blame welfare mothers''. That''d help our budget problem quite a bit; especially when other welfare programs are being axed.

[hypnotoad72]

Cost of living. If China is such a hot spot, with a blossoming middle class, they''re hardly being exploited. Ditto for the Indians.

Of course, if the cost of living was identical to that of China (or India), our middle class (never mind our status in the world) wouldn''t be withering away...

[barbaraf4]

The Robber Barons of this generation have sold us out. It used to be the dumbing down of America. Now it is the poveritization of America.

[sharncedar]

Why can''t the Chinese manufacture and design their own PCs, I mean once traitors like Michael "i love to betray America" Dell have finished teaching them all of our technology and design secrets. At that point, they have all of our factory equipment, they have the cheap labor, they understand the local market, by what insane perversion and conceit does the traitor Michael Dell think he needs to be in the loop?

The Chinese will allow this pathetic betrayer of his own country to be in the loop exactly long enough to transfer any remaining American know-how and technology into their hands, then he will be cut out of the business by the provincial and corrupt system of Chinese retail.

Something that Michael Dell and the rest of the new American class of eager traitors don''t get is that everyone despises a traitor, even the countries like China who cynically use these filth also despise them, and once their usefulness is over (once the Chinese have every single manufacturing and design secret from America) they will throw this trash by the wayside. Unlike Americans, i doubt a piece of filthy dirty scum like traitor Dell will be able to convince the Chinese he needs to take 10% of every dollar there; he''ll come running back to the US, hopefully we will have learned our hard lesson and meet him with a body full of lead. And throw his dirty carcass in an unmarked grave, the traitor''s grave.

At some point I suppose even America will learn to fight back.