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☆ Samsung shares fall as workers' strike at India plant continues after talks fall through
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Anniek Bao | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Workers stage a protest to demand higher wages and recognition of their union, at Samsung India's plant in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai on September 11, 2024. Shares of Samsung Electronics fell as much as 3% on Friday, as workers at its southern Indian plant continued to strike, disrupting production at the consumer electronics unit for a fifth day. Hundreds of workers have been on strike since Monday, demanding the electronics conglomerate to recognize their union, raise wages and reduce working hours. The plant, located in the city of Chennai in southern India, makes electronic appliances including televisions, refrigerators and washing machines. Samsung Electronics is one of the leading players in India's smartphone and electronic appliances market.

Organizations: Samsung, Samsung Electronics, union's, Reuters Locations: Sriperumbudur, Chennai, India

☆ Workers at Samsung India plant strike, partly hitting production
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Samsung employs under 2,000 workers at its Sriperumbudur plant near the city of Chennai which makes refrigerators and washing machines. The strike comes after Samsung Electronics' biggest union in South Korea held a four-day strike in August demanding higher wages and bonuses after talks with management fell through. Hundreds of workers at a Samsung Electronics plant in southern India have begun an indefinite strike to demand higher wages, partly hitting production on Monday, a union leader told Reuters. E. Muthukumar, who heads the Samsung India union, said many people dressed in company uniform sat outside the plant and demanded a wage hike and better working hours. A Samsung India spokesperson said in an email the company actively engages with "workers to address any grievances they may have and comply with all laws and regulations".

Persons: Muthukumar Organizations: Samsung, Samsung Electronics, Reuters, Samsung India Locations: Chennai, South Korea, India, Samsung India, Noida, Uttar Pradesh

☆ Hundreds of workers strike at major Samsung factory in India
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Production at a key Samsung Electronics plant in southern India was disrupted by hundreds of employees striking for higher wages on Tuesday, as top executives sought to resolve a rare episode of labor unrest. Posters saying “Indefinite Strike” went up outside the factory near the city of Chennai, where hundreds of workers in company uniforms set up tents to shade themselves from the heat. People shop inside a store selling Samsung mobile phones and electronics at Mumbai, India on March 6, 2023. A spokesperson for Samsung India said on Monday that it actively engaged with workers “to address any grievances they may have and comply with all laws and regulations.”Around 800 workers signed a register outside the factory to record their protest. One poster outside the factory exhorted state labor officials not to support management, advising instead: “Discuss and solve demands from the labor union with union officials.”

Persons: E, Muthukumar, Francis Mascarenhas, Veera Raghava Rao, “, ”, Prabhu Ram Organizations: Samsung Electronics, Samsung, India’s, LG Electronics, Reuters, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Samsung’s Southwest, JB, India, Samsung India, Cybermedia Research Locations: India, South Korea, Sriperumbudur, Chennai, Seoul, Samsung’s, Samsung’s Southwest Asia, Gurugram, New Delhi, Mumbai

☆ Analysis: India wants to be the next economic superpower. Half of its population holds the key
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Diksha Madhok | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New Delhi CNN —India, the world’s fastest growing major economy, is not firing on all cylinders. The engineering graduate started working at Finnish electronics manufacturer Salcomp’s factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu last year. Adnan Abidi/ReutersLike India, women in China were also relegated to subordinate roles for centuries. Factory jobsMuch of this change is visible in Tamil Nadu, India’s industrial powerhouse where companies such as Foxconn and Samsung have manufacturing plants. Employees test mobile phones on an assembly line of a unit of Foxconn Technology in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, on July 12, 2019.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Gunasri Tamilselvan, Tamilselvan, “, ”, It’s, Chandrasekhar Sripada, Adnan Abidi, Mao, ” Mao, Modi, Vishnu Venugopalan, Deepesh Nanda, Karen Dias, Parameshwari, Arun Roy, Roy Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, European Union —, CNN, World Bank, Bank, McKinsey, Indian School of Business, Reuters, Communist Party, Apple, Samsung, Guidance, Tata Group, Tata Power, Foxconn Technology, Bloomberg, Getty, Tata, Tamil Locations: New Delhi, India, Tamil Nadu, South Asia, United States, China, Nongriat, Shillong, Meghalaya, Beijing, Washington, Guidance Tamil, Sriperumbudur, Tirunelveli, Zhengzhou, Tamil

☆ India’s economy and elections: Is the hype around Narendra Modi’s vision justified?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Diksha Madhok | Rachel Wilson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New Delhi/London CNN —In just a few days, India will commence the world’s largest democratic election. So, is the hype around Modi’s India, which remains a largely impoverished country, justified? The world’s largest biometric database has also helped the government save millions by reducing corruption in welfare initiatives. Domestic investors, both retail and institutional, have been driving India’s stock market to unprecedented peaks. Still, India’s economy, much like its democracy, is far from perfect.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Indranil Mukherjee, Modi, Himanshu Sharma, Guido Cozzi, Arun Sankar, Billionaire Elon Musk Organizations: London CNN —, Getty, CNN, World, University of St, Unified, Bank, ”, National Stock Exchange of India, bourse, Bombay Stock Exchange, NSE, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Hong Kong Exchange, World Federation of Exchanges, Macquarie Capital, Apple, Foxconn, Billionaire, International Labour Organization Locations: New Delhi, London, India, China, Beijing, Ajmer, Rajasthan, University of St Gallen, Switzerland, Asia’s, Washington, Sriperumbudur, Chennai, Mumbai's Churchgate, AFP

☆ India’s Quiet Push to Steal More of China’s iPhone Business
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Alex Travelli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It is happening in South Indian industrial areas on muddy plots that were once farmland. In Sriperumbudur, people call Apple “the customer,” not daring to say the name of a company that prizes its secrets. Once finished, each will be a tight block of 13 buildings with 24 rooms per floor around an L-shaped hallway. Every one of those pink-painted rooms will have beds for six workers, all women. It’s a ready-made scene from Shenzhen or Zhengzhou, the Chinese cities famous for their iPhone production prowess.

Persons: ”, It’s Organizations: Apple Locations: India, China, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou

☆ Hyundai Motor's unit to buy General Motors' India plant
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsBENGALURU, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co's (005380.KS) Indian unit will buy automaker General Motors' (GM.N) Talegaon plant in the western state of Maharashtra, a move that will allow the U.S. automaker to exit the country as well increase Hyundai's annual production. Through its Sriperumbudur facility outside Chennai city and now the Talegaon plant, Hyundai aims to increase its cumulative production capacity to one million units per year, it said on Wednesday. The company had a production capacity of 820,000 units in the first half of this year. The South Korean firm said it intends to upgrade the existing infrastructure at the Talegaon unit and start manufacturing in 2025. The plant currently has an annual production capacity of 130,000 units.

Persons: Wolfgang Rattay, Ashish Chandra, Sonia Cheema Organizations: Hyundai, REUTERS, Rights, General Motors, U.S, GM, Kia, Thomson Locations: Munich, Germany, KS, Maharashtra, Chennai, India, Bengaluru

☆ iPhone 15 production begins in India as Apple aims to diversify from China: Report
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Apple supplier Foxconn is beginning production of the iPhone 15 in India as the company moves forward with its effort to diversify its manufacturing from China, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Foxconn's Sriperumbudur plant is getting ready to deliver the new phones weeks after they begin shipping from China-based factories, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. After a meeting with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House this year, Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC that India represents a "huge opportunity." Apple has more recently ramped up iPhone production in India, assembling more than $7 billion worth there in the last fiscal year, Bloomberg earlier reported. Prior to that, iPhone assembly in India lagged China by six to nine months, Bloomberg reported, but that gap has significantly closed.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Narendra Modi, Foxconn's, Biden, Pegatron Organizations: Apple, Washington , D.C, Foxconn, Bloomberg, U.S, India, CNBC, Tata Group, YouTube Locations: Washington ,, India, China, iPhones

☆ Apple supplier Foxconn breaks ground on $500 million India factory
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

(Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) (Photo by ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images)Taiwan-based Foxconn has broken ground on a new $500 million factory in the Indian state of Telangana just under a month after Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Foxconn is one of Apple 's largest suppliers and directly produces a reported 70% of the world's iPhone supply. The new Telangana factory will employ 25,000 workers "in the first phase," according to a tweet from the government of Telangana. Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the discrepancy on when a deal was reached. Bloomberg previously reported on Foxconn's effort to build another factory in the Indian state of Karnataka, just outside of Bengaluru.

☆ Apple wants to manufacture 25% of its iPhones in India, minister says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Apple is looking to manufacture 25% of all of its iPhones in India, the country's commerce minister said Monday. Apple has been manufacturing iPhones in India since 2017, but these were usually older models. JPMorgan analysts said in a note from September that Apple could make 25% of all iPhones globally in India by 2025. Apple has been looking to diversify production away from China, where it currently makes the bulk of its iPhones. Apple has just a 5% market share in India's smartphone market, but CEO Tim Cook has long-seen India as a potential area for growth.

☆ Apple begins making the iPhone 14 in India, marking a big shift in its manufacturing strategy
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

A view of the new iPhone 14 at an Apple event at their headquarters in Cupertino, California, September 7, 2022. Apple said Monday it is assembling its flagship iPhone 14 in India as the U.S. technology giant looks to shift some production away from China. "The new iPhone 14 lineup introduces groundbreaking new technologies and important safety capabilities. We're excited to be manufacturing iPhone 14 in India," Apple said in a statement. This time with the iPhone 14, Apple is manufacturing its latest model in India for the first time, close to the device's launch.

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