Chennais Motorola Company to be shut downed
Posted on: 11/Dec/2012 3:33:12 PM
Motorola compnay was to be closed in chennai after it was sold to Google indefinitely suspending operations at its phone assembly and packaging unit in Chennai that it started in 2008 with an investment of Rs 172 crore. The suspension will be effective February next year. The 76 employees involved in the business will be laid off. William Moss, spokesperson for Motorola Mobility We are now fulfilling customer orders directly from factories, and we have no current or forecast production requirements that would require the continued use of our Chennai facility," Moss told TOI from Singapore.
Moss said the company will born that it was difficult for the employees who are impacted to the employees who were working for a long period. "We are working with them to settle all dues, provide relief packages and to help them find other opportunities.Google acquired Motorola Mobility last year for $12.5 billion. In August this year, Google began a major restructuring of the handset maker when it announced that 4,000 jobs - a fifth of the workforce - at Motorola Mobility would be laid off. It said two-thirds of the job losses would be from outside the US, and that a third of Motorola`s 94 offices worldwide would be closed. Google expected to bear severance costs of up to $275 million by end of 2012. And they are following Apple creating a company that controls both the software and hardware in smartphones.Motorola will be gven special treatment over other companies building Android mobile phones.
