Tata and Vedanta offer India lessons in industrial policyBusiness diversification and revitalization is the right direction for Indian business. But industrial policy needs to be based on what mak...
06 Nov, 2023, 07.51 AM IST
Foxconn's Tamil Nadu unit commences Apple iPhone 15 productionApple Inc.’s next-generation iPhone 15 is beginning production in Tamil Nadu. The scale of India production for the iPhone 15 will depend o...
17 Aug, 2023, 12.19 PM IST
Tata Group may become first Indian iPhone maker, likely to takeover Wistron factory in KarnatakaA takeover of the Wistron Corp. factory in southern Karnataka state, potentially valued at more than $600 million, would cap about a year o...
11 Jul, 2023, 11.22 PM IST
Apple seeks changes in India labor laws in push to diversify beyond ChinaApple Inc. is requesting new labour law reforms in India as it seeks to expand local production; governments there prefer manufacturing its...
21 Mar, 2023, 04.37 PM IST
Tata eyes Apple vendor Wistron's facility in KarnatakaInitial plan of JV is now moving toward a Rs 4000 cr - Rs 5000 crore deal for the facility. The transaction, if successful, will help the s...
10 Jan, 2023, 02.58 PM IST
Tata nears iPhone plant takeover to grow Apple supply roleThe airline-to-software conglomerate has been in talks with the factory’s owner, Taiwan’s Wistron Corp., for months, and is looking to comp...
10 Jan, 2023, 09.47 AM IST
Tata Group to sell Apple iPhones and iPads in over 100 small stores. Read moreTata Group, one of India's largest business conglomerates, plans to open 100 stores to sell Apple products. The group is in contact with th...
13 Dec, 2022, 04.33 PM IST
Tata Group to add up to 45,000 workers at iPhone parts plantThe salt-to-software conglomerate is among Indian companies trying to benefit from Apple diversifying its supply chain beyond China. While ...
01 Nov, 2022, 01.53 PM IST
Tata Group in talks to join an elite club of iPhone makersAn Indian company making iPhones would be a massive boost for the country’s effort to challenge China, whose dominance in electronics manuf...
09 Sep, 2022, 10.37 AM IST
Foxconn plant near Chennai to stay shut this week after protests, say govt sourcesPolice on Monday released dozens of those detained for blocking a key highway in a protest against food poisoning at the Foxconn plant that...
22 Dec, 2021, 09.51 AM IST
Foxconn plant near Chennai to stay shut this week after protestsPolice on Monday released dozens of those detained for blocking a key highway in protest after the food poisoning incident last week at the...
21 Dec, 2021, 01.49 PM IST
Riot-hit Wistron India iPhone plant unlikely to open soonWhile analysts expect the shortfall in production caused by the disruption at Wistron to be met by imports, demand for the Apple iPhone mod...
12 Jan, 2021, 03.54 PM IST
Riot-hit Apple supplier Wistron hired more than it could handle in its Karnataka factoryThe rapid expansion stretched the company’s systems and sapped the bandwidth of its management team, one of the people said. Its employee a...
19 Dec, 2020, 07.57 AM IST
Indian trade union slams govt for failing to address worker woes after Wistron violenceThe Taiwanese company, one of Apple Inc's top global suppliers, in a police complaint said more than 5,000 of its contract workers had dest...
17 Dec, 2020, 06.19 PM IST
Karnataka labour department says workers' rights violated at Wistron factoryThe team of labour officials that inspected the factory and interacted with the management, manpower supply agencies and employees, has rev...
16 Dec, 2020, 03.42 PM IST
Violence at Wistron factory could sour Apple's 'Make In India' plans"The company was looking to hire between 15,000 to 20,000 workers over the next one year, had plans to assemble another iPhone device but t...
16 Dec, 2020, 09.08 AM IST
Wistron factory incident neither reflection of India as country nor our culture: ICEAIn a letter to Vincent Lee, vice-president (innovation business group) of Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing India, the India Cellular and Elec...
15 Dec, 2020, 11.00 PM IST