Dell India posted a growth of 9% in market share prompting them to expand their third manufacturing plant located in Tamilnadu at Sri Preumbudur, near Chennai. The expanded facilities will support manufacture of 800 million units of desktops. According Sameer Garde, Country General Manager, the note books market is expected to grow above 50% beyond 2009. Dell is naturally planning to retain and gain more share in this growing market.

Dell has located a R&D center in India at Bangalore, in addition to those at Austin, Shanghai, Taiwan and Singapore. India based center has filed more than 400 information disclosure in 2007 rewarding the initiative of having an India center. Bangalore center is focusing on enterprise products while Singapore specializes in Printer. Shanghai focuses on Desktop and work related to Laptop is done at Taiwan. In India Dell has academic tie ups with BITS Pilani, NIIT Suratkal  and IIT Chennai. Since establishing Dell has grown 12 times in turnover over the past 7 years.

Dell has reached second position in server markets and to increase the market share it is widening the client base by offering products to SMB clients. Further it is also focusing on the banking financial institutions segment and educational institutions where the potential to sell exceeds a million PCs. As the government is concentrating on building an infrastructure to ensure continuous supply of growing IT and ITES sector, the educational institution market is bound to grow faster and further.

Dell has an entrenched presence in India offering IT procurement, KPO analytics and Process engineering. Indian outfit also supports Dell clients worldwide besides participating in R&D efforts to grow in capability to deliver better and reliable products and services.