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Tata-run iPhone plant to create opportunities in India, says TCS executive

The $128 billion Tata Group has been in talks for months with Apple Inc.'s Taiwanese supplier Wistron Corp

The Wistron plant in Karnakata.
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The Wistron plant in Karnakata.

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Tata Group succeeding with its bid to take over an iPhone assembly plant in southern India would give a boost to the country’s ambitions to become an electronics manufacturing hub, a top executive at the conglomerate’s software services arm said.

“I am not directly involved in that, but it should be really good for India because this is going to create an opportunity in India to manufacture electronics and microelectronics,” N Ganapathy Subramaniam, operating chief at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., told Bloomberg TV’s Rishaad Salamat and Haslinda Amin in an interview on Tuesday.

The $128 billion Tata Group has been in talks

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