Apple has begun hiring staff for upcoming bodily shops in India.
The tech large at the moment has a dozen reside job listings for brick-and-mortar shops at “numerous places” throughout the South Asian nation. In line with a Monetary Occasions report no less than 5 folks confirmed that they have been employed to work at upcoming shops by way of posts on LinkedIn.
The timing of Apple’s hiring effort appears to lend credence to earlier studies, which mentioned the corporate’s inaugural brick-and-mortar retailer is scheduled to open within the first quarter of 2023 following a number of delays. A July ETTelecom report mentioned India’s teeming monetary capital of Mumbai would be the house of Apple’s flagship retailer, which is reported to be a 22,000-square-foot retailer at an upscale shopping center.
Apple declined to touch upon a timeline for the opening of its first brick-and-mortar retailer in India.
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Apple’s flagship retailer in Singapore takes the type of a floating glass orb.
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The opening of Apple’s first India retailer could be a part of the corporate’s broader retail push within the nation, the place its market share is comparatively small in comparison with the nation’s measurement and inhabitants. India is among the largest smartphone markets on the earth, however it’s additionally price-sensitive and dominated by Chinese language firms comparable to Xiaomi and Vivo.
In recent times, Apple has been shifting extra manufacturing to India because it seeks to scale back its provide chain dependence from China. It began making iPhones in India in 2017, and it started manufacturing the iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 within the South Asian nation final 12 months.
CEO Tim Cook dinner introduced plans for an Apple retailer in India in February 2020. Cook dinner mentioned he is a “enormous believer” within the alternatives India presents because the world’s second most populous nation.
Apple opened an on-line retailer for India final September, which introduced the corporate’s full vary of merchandise and assist on to the nation for the primary time. The net retailer was opened because the pandemic compelled many bodily retail shops to close.