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Dell won EU approval Wednesday to receive a euro54.4 million ($80.4 million) subsidy from the Polish government to build a new plant there, replacing Ireland as the computer maker's new European manufacturing hub.

The European Commission said it could allow the government aid the company because the new factory would create jobs in a disadvantaged part of Poland _ Lodz, the country's third-largest city _ where there is an unusually low standard of living and high unemployment.
The state will pay just over a quarter of the total investment of euro189.58 million in the plant which will eventually employ up to 3,000 people to make desktops, notebooks and servers, including Latitude and Inspiron models.

EU regulators said they investigated the subsidy carefully because they initially doubted that the plant needed state help and wanted to check that it didn't enrich Dell or help it make more of a product that wasn't selling.

Dell was Ireland's second-largest corporate employer, its biggest exporter and in recent years has contributed about 5 percent to the national gross domestic product.

So as Irish people we should show Dell how we feel about the them as they have now abandoned Ireland and moved to the next country that will give them a big subsidy and cheap labout. Where will the race to the bottom end.

snazzymike

Here is somethibng i found on the web in anser to a question as to if the Irish goverment could have did anything to get dell to stay..and that was by means of grants etc,,the reply was as follows
That probably wouldn't have mattered. Dell took all manner of government and tax incentives to buy property here in Nashville, TN to set up a manufacturing and distribution center. As soon as they could according to all the 'agreements', they laid off most of the workforce and now use the facility as a tax write-off. The Nashville government gave them all sorts of incentives with the sole purpose of seeing a lot of locals employed there with good, stable jobs and now most of those folks are back out of work and in the unemployment lines as, along with Dell, most companies are sending their tech support and customer service jobs overseas to India, etc. :(

The only power we currently have to halt this nonsense is to refuse to do business with the 'international' companies and let them know WHY a local competitor is getting our business. I've called and written to all sorts of companies that I used to do business with after calling them for something to discover that I couldn't communicate with the foreigner on the other end of the phone and, evidently, I'm not the only one that's been doing this as I've begun to see news blubs about some U.S. companies bringing their customer service jobs back state-side during the past several months.

duncan

Why we should boycott Dell products well would you buy a lap top build in poland ??? come on lets be honest apart from any reason to not buy from these profit hungary zionists yes the CEO Michael Dell is a jew and he moves his factory to poland of all places. is profit more important that The lessons of history?. I could understand if he moved to Isreal and helped the Arab community with job and took young peoples mind off terrorism recruiters but to Poland does he not realise that these are the very people who were only too happy to see jews exterminated from Europe.
In short i will never buy Dell and urge Irish people to be A.B.D's Anything But Dell

mountain man

The only thing that large companies understand is revenue. If we all STOP and THINK and don't buy DELL products their admittedly excellent customer service applications will very quickly tell them that there is a very large Revenue hole in Ireland. BUT please don't go and give the money away to other companies who never had a presence here either. At least Siemens and HP have a large workforce here. They don't assemble PC's but they do give good services employment to hundreds of Irish people.

I don't work foro any of the above companies.

By the way the whole notion that Dell was a manufacturing business in this country is tripe. It was an assembly plant. Just like the motor industry component parts are made and imported into a factory from all around the world, assembled and shipped back out again. Not sure that any of the politicians ever understood that.

Not surprising that they went away but DELL systems are expensive now and their quality and delivery times have degraded noticably since they went to Poland. Serves them right.

Mind you when you hear some of the stories from the local Gardai in Limerick involving shift workers and nixers that were happening near to the factory you might question how computers were ever assembled at all!!

snazzymike

to hell with dell

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