Apple chief executive Tim Cook welcomed customers to the company’s first store opened in the national capital on Thursday. Located in Select Citywalk Mall in Delhi, Barricade at Apple Saket has a unique design that draws inspiration from the many gates of Delhi. However, the Saket store is smaller than the Apple store opened on Tuesday at Jio World Drive in Bandra Kurla Complex.
Apple Saket According to sources, the store in Delhi is half the size of the store in Mumbai, where the company will pay a part of the total sales from the store as rent or Rs 40 lakh per month, whichever is higher.
The company’s Saket store houses over 70 highly skilled retail team members, who hail from 18 states in India and collectively speak over 15 languages.
Inside the Apple Saket store in New Delhi
Cook called on the Prime Minister during his visit Narendra Modi as the iPhone maker looks to invest more in the world’s second largest smartphone market.
According to government sources, the iPhone maker is likely to double the employment base of its contract manufacturers in India to around 2 lakh soon.
Cook, on his first visit to India in seven years, on Tuesday opened Apple’s first official retail store in the country in Mumbai.
Cook had last visited India in 2016 when the tech giant had just started operations in the country.
Looking to replicate what China did for Apple’s business over the past 15 years, the tech giant is eyeing the huge market of India, which is growing the middle class with increased sales of power, and potentially This could make it a home base for the production of millions of Apple devices.
Cook met Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav and Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajiv Chandrasekhar during his visit.
According to sources, Cook has sought government support to expand its components supplier base in India.
The Apple CEO is also understood to have discussed manufacturing facilities in Bengaluru and an app design and development accelerator with the two ministers.