Apple planning to start new stores in noida and pune, iPhone, macbook, samsung

Apple’s new stores in India may start soon. These Apple stores can be opened in DLF Mall of India in Uttar Pradesh and Kopa Mall in Pune. Apart from this, the company plans to open two additional stores. Apple’s current stores are in Delhi and Mumbai.

A media Report In the sources who have been aware of the company’s plan, it has been told that Apple has fixed the location for its third and fourth stores in Noida and Pune. Apart from this, it is looking for location for two stores in Mumbai and Bengaluru. The company’s existing two stores were joint revenue of about Rs 800 crore in the first year of sales. Saket’s store in Delhi was 60 percent. In October last year, Apple’s Senior Vice President (Retail), Deirdre O’Brien announced the company’s expansion plan. After this, the company started hiring about 400 workers in the country.

Apple has finished first in the international sales of smartphones in the first quarter of this year. The company has benefited from increasing demand in India and Japan and launch of iPhone 16E. The company holds around 19 percent stake in the smartphone market. Apple sales have been flat or decreased in America, Europe and China. South Korea’s Samsung is in second place in the smartphone market with about 18 percent stake.

In the US, the stock of Apple iPhones is being deposited by President Donald Trump to avoid the tariff on import. However, Trump has not included computers, smartphones and some other electronic products in tariffs imposed on imports from China. The iPhone stake in the export of smartphones from India has been about Rs 1.5 lakh crore in the last financial year. The manufacturing of iPhone has increased rapidly in the last few years in the country. Apple’s contract manufacturer FoxConn had assembled about 1.2 million iPhones in the country last year. China has a major stake in manufacturing iPhones. A recent report said that the company plans to start manufacturing of Airpods, MacBook and iPad in India soon.