Tata Group Closes In on Deal to Become First Indian iPhone Maker
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Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate, is close to an agreement to acquire an Apple Inc. supplier's factory as soon as August, marking the first time a local company would move into the assembly of iPhones, according to people familiar with the matter.A takeover of the Wistron Corp. factory in southern Karnataka state, potentially valued at more than $600 million, would cap about a year of negotiations, said the people, asking not to be named as the matter is private. The facility employs more than 10,000 workers, who assemble the latest iPhone 14 model. Wistron has committed to ship iPhones worth at least $1.8 billion from the factory in the fiscal year through March 2024 to win state-backed financial incentives, the people said. It also planned to triple the plant's workforc...