Goodbye INDIA :- Motorola is shutting down its operations in India and across Asia Pacific, industry sources have confirmed to BGR India. The news comes after Motorola Mobility CEO, Dennis Woodside, confirmed the company would be letting go of 20 percent of its workforce and would be shrinking its India operations. Emails and calls to Motorola Mobility’s APAC region PR and employees at Motorola Mobility India remain unanswered.
From the way things look like, only
those employees who are working on projects related to products in the
US will retain their jobs. Motorola will continue to sell its products
till stocks last and its service centers will continue to function.
Independent real estate companies have confirmed that Motorola’s
Hyderabad R&D facility property has been put up for sale.
In the APAC region, the company will shut shop in all countries but
Australia and Korea. It turns out that the APAC region bore the brunt of
Motorola’s decision to close a third of its 94 global offices. Woodside
had earlier indicated the company would exit unprofitable markets, stop
making low-end devices and focus on a few cellphones instead of dozens.
UPDATE: Motorola Mobility has reached out to us with an official statement.
====> Although we are consolidating about a third of our
facilities globally, and slimming our operation in India as you
reported, we continue to have a significant presence in several key
markets in Asia-Pacific in addition to Korea and Australia. This
includes, among others, mainland China, which remains one of our main
R&D hubs (and where I am based). We should be able to share more
information once we’re further through the reorganization process, but
Asia-Pacific is an important part of Motorola Mobility’s future. <====
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