chandramauli 0 Report post Posted February 8, 2005 (edited) Aiming to sell half a million mobile sets within a year, Haier -- a leading home appliances brand on Tuesday announced its foray into the Indian mobile handset market with the launch of its seven GSM mobile sets in New Delhi. The price of newly launched mobile sets would start from Rs 3,654 and go up to Rs 14,940 per set. The mobile sets would be distributed through its national distributor 'Trust Telecom' having the support of nationwide after sales service network throughout India. Haier, having over 60 models of mobile sets globally, would also launch its CDMA mobile sets within couple of months. "With the launch of our seven state of the art mobile sets comprising entry-level as well as high end models, we have set a target to sell 500,000 GSM mobile sets with a turnover of Rs 250 crore (Rs 2.5 billion) in one year," said T K Banerjee, President & CEO, of Haier Appliances (India) Pvt Ltd, while addressing reporters. Haier India, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Haier Group, plans to achieve a growth of almost 60 per cent in Indian mobile handset segment. "We have set a challenging task for us to achieve a 60 per cent growth in our mobile telephony segment with an intention to occupy a slot in top three mobile handsets companies," said Banerjee. Haier India, which entered into Indian market a year ago has launched its GSM mobile sets first for North Indian market and within few days it would enter southern, eastern and western markets. Haier has a state of the art manufacturing facility in China for GSM & CDMA mobile phone handsets with technology partnership with leading technology providers and has a production capacity of 15 million handsets per year. ___________________________________________________courtesy : Rediff.com why didnt they mention the features t he phone would have .... why do these F.uckers think we like only cheap products ..... Edited February 8, 2005 by chandramauli Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
