Amazon will soon start manufacturing in India – starting with the Fire TV Stick
IANSFeb 16, 2021, 16:30 IST
BCCL
E-commerce and technology major
Amazon will soon start manufacturing of its electronics products including the Fire TV stick in India.
After a virtual conversation with Amit Agarwal, Global Senior Vice President of Amazon and Country Head for India and Chetan Krishnaswamy, Vice President, Public Policy of
Amazon India on Wednesday, the Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad took to Twitter and the homegrown social media platform Koo, to make the announcement. Held a very good conversation with @AmitAgarwal and @Chetankrishna of @amazonIN today. Delighted to share that soon Amazon will commence manufacturing of electronics products like FireTV stick in India, Prasad said.
The Indian arm of tech giant Amazon has announced that it is going to start manufacturing Amazon products locally. This includes electronics such as the Amazon Fire TV Stick devices.
Amazon to start manufacturing Fire TV stick devices in India Production will start later this year at the Chennai facilities of Cloud Network Technology
Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday said it would start manufacturing its devices in the country giving a huge boost to the Modi-government’s Make in India initiative.
The e-commerce giant will first make the Fire TV stick, a streaming device. A company blog said production would start later this year at the Chennai facilities of Cloud Network Technology, a contract manufacturer which is a subsidiary of Foxconn.
Amazon did not offer any investment details. The company said production would meet the demand in India and it was open to scaling up operations by setting up facilities in the other parts of the country depending upon the demand.