Dell to shut U.S. plant, lay off 905
Texas: Dell has announced that it will close desktop manufacturing plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina by the end of January 2010, which will lay off 905 employees. The company said that 600 will be laid off by next month.
Dell was promised more than $300 million in state and local incentives to open the plant. But in order to get these incentives it required to invest $100 million, create 1,700 jobs by September 2010 and maintain those jobs for 10 more years or forfeit the package.
Dell said it would comply with the terms of the incentive agreement. The closure of this plant is part of a plan to save $4 billion a year by 2011. In January this year, Dell had said that the company would move its Ireland manufacturing operations to Poland, a process that is still ongoing. Dell also sold its Lebanon, Tennessee, remanufacturing plant to Genco in June this year.
Dell has plants in the Miami, Nashville, Austin and Texas in the U.S. Outside America its has plants in Brazil, Ireland, Poland, China, Malaysia and India. It also partners with other manufacturers to make certain products.
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