The company is also looking to diversify its portfolio to include personal devices<\/a>, smart cameras and enterprise Internet-of-Things solutions this year as demand for PCs stagnates in the country, CEO Rahul Agarwal<\/a> told ET.
“Within the privacy laws, by interacting with customers we will get more data (with these personal devices)…This is where we want to get into building on our strengths. We have the data, and with the computing power and algorithms, we are best suited to come up with solutions,” said Agarwal.
The PC market fell 8.3% year-on-year, with shipments down to 2.15 million units, in the January-March quarter, according to industry tracker IDC.
Lenovo India, however, could buck the trend to capture maximum market share due to a deal with the Tamil Nadu government to supply 1.56 million laptops, according to Agarwal.
“PC market is stagnating on units but growing on value… This year, we will be number one. The large ELCOT (Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu) deal is helping us, but even in other businesses, consumer and SMB segments we have been gaining market share,” he said. “We have had a good two-year run. We have gained almost 3% share without sacrificing profitability.”
HP was the leader in the traditional PC market in the first quarter with a market share of 28.1%. Dell came next with a 25.9% market share, while Lenovo was placed third with a 25.2% share, according to IDC.
The United States’ recent ban on Huawei devices due to its trade conflict with China has not spooked the China-based company, Agarwal said.
“The internal view is that there is nothing for us to be worried about… We own Motorola, which is an iconic American brand. We have factories there. We don’t think that this is going to happen to all the companies in the East. That would be catastrophic.”
He also said that the group was thinking of consolidating its manufacturing services, “We keep talking about it… Discussions are going on if we should have a consolidated factory which has mobiles, PCs. Today, we have separate units.”
On increasing manufacturing from India, he said the tax incentives were not attractive enough, even though the company remained committed to investing here.
“We would like to (manufacture in India) because the wage arbitrage is definitely there, but the ecosystem is not tempting enough. We would like to export as well,” he said.
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