Vivo has aimed to develop a unit in Greater Noida, with the firm believe to provide jobs for a bulk of people. Chinese smartphone maker, Vivo will create over 2,200 jobs at its Greater Noida facility, which will become operational by the end of this month, for the profiles to be needed by the people. The main two categories are divided as per the necessities and requirement by the unit.
The company has a huge investment criteria to spend. It has already invested a huge amount of Rs. 125 crore in the first phase for the assembling unit, which will have capacity of over one million phones per month. It is up to hiring people for the unit with the CEO said that it has already invested the first half and is planning to invest in several stages.
Vivo Global CMO and India CEO Alex Feng told PTI, "At the end of this month our Greater Noida assembling unit will be operational that will bring over 2,000 jobs for the product lines and around 200 managerial positions also. The maximum capacity will be one million units per month". He added, "Second phase investment will be made early next year for R&D and even manufacturing. We have to identify the quantum of amount we will be investing".
For the growth of the country, the government has also offered various incentives like capital subsidy and tax benefits on setting up local units and is still offering. For the company like Vivo, which entered the Indian market in last December, is now selling around one lakh units per month. The Shenzhen-headquartered company plans to increase the service centers to 200 by the end of next year. With 30 service centers at present and over 10,000 outlets across 100 cities of the country, the company is expanding the territory. It has only offline stores, with current staff working at the retail stores having a strength stand at 7,000.
With a worldwide approach to gear up, the company aims to provide a look n feel of the device. Feng said, the device is not for now expected to be sold out online as they believe in people’s satisfaction from the look n feel. Many other such places have got the device in the market including Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Many Indian and international handset players like Lenovo, Gionee, Micromax and Intex among others have already started manufacturing in India while many others have evinced interest in doing so, to get the hold over the huge market of India where several people plans and buy smartphones.
