Dell has denied an Indian government release that chief executive officer Michael Dell discussed shifting procurement from China to a “safer environment” with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
“There was no discussion concerning any change in how or from where Dell will source component parts for the computers it manufactures in Asia,” Minari Shah, a Dell spokeswoman, said in an emailed statement on Thursday.
Dell sources “equipment and parts worth $25 billion from China,” Mr Singh told members of Planning Commission on March 23, according to an emailed text of his speech released by Press Information Bureau (PIB) that evening.
“They would like to shift to safer environment with a climate conducive to enterprise with security of legal system,” Mr Singh told the plan panel. “So I think this is an area where there are immense opportunities,” he said in the speech.
The PIB website, where releases of Mr Singh’s official speeches are posted, no longer has a copy of the remarks. The text was removed after officials from the Round Rock, a Texas-based company, contacted the Indian press office, Dell’s Shah said.
Harish Khare, a media adviser to Mr Singh, declined to comment. Mr Dell met Mr Singh the day after Google started routing China-based users to an unfiltered search service on its Hong Kong site, following through on a January 12 statement to end self-censorship of its Google.cn portal. Dell declined comment on March 23 when asked about Google’s decision.
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