Kevin Rollins
Kevin Rollins
Kevin Barney Rollinsis an American businessman and philanthropist. The former President and CEO of Dell Inc., in 2006 Rollins was named by London's CBR as the 9th Most Influential person in the Enterprise IT sector...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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While we're disappointed that we didn't reach our initial revenue target for the quarter, we are very pleased with our ability to deliver industry-leading profitability and consistent growth and earnings,
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We believe that's a very healthy growth rate for a company of our size and our complexity,
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Much of the industry's quarterly growth was at the low ends of the desktop and notebook categories, which offer little if any profitability. Dell met its operating targets by pursuing profitable growth.
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I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.
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This move places us closer to our customers in a market that presents excellent long-term growth opportunities for Dell.
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Dell's growth in Oklahoma City is testament to the superior service that our customers receive from the dedicated employees who have become part of our team here in Oklahoma City.
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As we look at the dynamics of the industry...we see normal seasonal trends (and) good growth, healthy growth. And if what people are saying about our competition and the industry being down, we're probably taking more share this quarter than we anticipated.
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The market is in a very strange mood, and so with earnings and revenue growth estimates, it's pretty hard to predict how the market's going to react to a company's earnings and revenue growth rate right now,
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It has been a very exciting time here in India, running customer support and internal software development centers.
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Our teams in India have integrated well with Dell's operations.
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Our goal has always been to be very aggressive on pricing and make sure we're growing.
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We intend to grow and we intend to take share. We're not seeing any slowdown or any abnormal situation.
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Our mindset always says it's not how big the market is but how profitable it can be as the key determiner of whether or not we want to be in it.
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that business has been in and is in a transition phase this year, and a real positive sign was that this quarter. Profits improved in Europe by 24 percent over the first quarter. That's the first step in the transition. We've got a management team that is coming together and we believe that by the fourth quarter, we'll be in very good shape to accelerate growth; and so right now we're very hopeful and positive and the transformation is on track.