The company is also evaluating plans for the 4G Volte feature phone and will make all its phones within India, Nummela told Gulveen Aulakh in an interview. HMD Global’s chief marketing officer Pekka Rentala and India MD Ajey Mehta, too, participated in the interaction. We have 400 exclusive offline distributors who have relationships with retailers, and they will be investing very heavily into promoting Nokia phones. It makes business sense to manufacture in India because there is a difference between imported and local manufacturing. If it does not make business for us to manufacture in India, then we keep looking at it.

Source: Economic Times June 13, 2017 18:56 UTC