Spice Mobility inks joint venture deal with China's Transsion
What's the story
India's Spice Mobility is looking to make a comeback into the crowded mobile phone market in India, according to reports.
Spice has signed a joint venture partnership with Transsion Holdings, a China-based mobile manufacturer, to start selling smartphones from next month.
The company said that it is looking to introduce over ten devices over the next six months.
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China's Transsion Holdings: Profile
Chinese company Transsion Holdings is a tech company spanning across 58 countries and owns brands such as Infinix, Carlcare and Itel. Their products range from home appliances to smartphones and mobile accessories.
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India: Global manufacturing hub for Transsion?
"We will move to third-party manufacturing after we achieve a certain scale and then, explore the possibility of setting up our own manufacturing facility. India could become a global manufacturing hub for Transsion," Spice Mobility executive chairman Dilip Modi said.
Benefits
How will the partnership help Spice?
The Spice brand had its own portfolio of mobile phones, and a manufacturing facility at Himachal Pradesh.
With the new partnership, the company will begin contract manufacturing.
The deal will help move all of the Indian company's back-end operations, research and development, local manufacturing, distribution and sales to Transsion Group.
Spice aims to launch around 10 handsets in the Rs. 10,000 price range.
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