Three key senior executives of Apple India have reportedly resigned. The trio are Rahul Puri, head of national sales, distribution and operator business, Jayant Gupta head of iPhone sales, modern trade and Apple Premium Retail stores, and Manish Sharma, who heads the national sales for telecom, according to news reports.
This comes on the heels of a report that Apple sold less than one million iPhones in the first half of this year, way behind last year’s 3.2 million iPhones, according to Counterpoint Research. Presently, Apple has only 2% share of smartphone sales in the country.
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The Cupertino-based tech giant has also made a new sales audit team under the supervision of chief financial officer Gurab Duggal who will pick up products from the market to make sure complete compliance of its sales processes, according to a report in Economic Times newspaper.
Apple India’s new country head Michel Coulomb, who took charge in December, has decided to tighten the distribution process and retain only two national distributors – Ingram Micro and Redington. Three others Brightstar, Rashi Peripherals and HCL Infosystems will be phased out by next year March.