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Lenovo Malaysia to spice up retail focus

By Rajiv Menon
1 min read
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Lenovo Malaysia says it’s going to increase its retail presence because it goals to develop its share of the PC market.

The corporate unveiled a change technique this week based mostly on new enterprise fashions to its Malaysian channel companions.

It says it’s in a “steady shift on your complete gadget and related ecosystem” with elevated emphasis on “human-centric designs” starting from wearable units, smartphones and tablets to non-public computer systems, servers, software program and clouds based mostly providers.

Lenovo stated in assertion that it deliberate to proceed to spend money on Malaysia to achieve market management in all segments.

A part of this implies extra shops and retail factors of sale, funding in infrastructure and a dedication to driving innovation.

Regardless of Malaysia’s lacklustre financial system – blamed on the introduction of six per cent GST on April 1, Lenovo is satisfied the market holds robust potential for the model.

Beijing-headquartered Lenovo says it has skilled hypergrowth” in Southeast Asia through the first 4 months of this yr and claims to now maintain greater than 28 per cent market share in cellular computing.

Dr Harry Yang, Southeast Asia area VP and GM, stated the robust momentum was persevering with and Malaysia was a key market in driving that progress. “SEA is a mixture of mature markets with an urge for food for premium and cutting-edge know-how, and quick rising rising markets with entry-level know-how penetration, giving us the chance to develop market share shortly,” he stated.

Globally, Lenovo recorded 21 per cent yr on yr progress within the fourth quarter to March 31 with revenues totalling US$11.three billion, regardless of a sluggish financial setting in lots of areas and foreign money fluctuations.

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