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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (22135)	12/8/2004 6:08:28 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 81092

Re: Eventually, most of the 2,300 employees in the US will be fired and the US operation will be no more than a warehouse for goods made in China -- by Chinese. I don't think so... The article also reports that Lenovo's PC Unit HQ will be relocated from Beijing to NYC... and let's just look at how other, successful PC makers handle their worldwide operations: DELL for instance... DELL has offices throughout the EU, part of its EMEA unit (Europe-Middle-East-Africa) and an assembly plant in Ireland. () Dell Computer doesn't run its European business from Texas... Same thing with Hewlett-Packard-Compaq... Another incentive for Lenovo to hire US locals is that many PC buyers are institutions like banks, universities, public administrations, etc. that is, community-driven/aware customers who'll favor "local suppliers" over foreign ones.... Gus () Dell 's best plant worldwide is here By DEARBHLA ACHESON FEARS that Dell might move its operation to central Europe with a loss of over 3,000 jobs to Limerick have been strongly refuted by the company. [...] limerick-leader.ie