According to an individual near the corporate, Oppo, which additionally makes handsets for sister model Realme and OnePlus in-house, continues to be working the manufacturing facility at 30% capability as permissible beneath house ministry’s lockdown pointers.
Fringe group Hindu Raskha Dal, on Saturday held a two hour-long demonstration outdoors the Oppo’s Greater Noida manufacturing facility, ‘symbolically’ locking the gates and elevating ‘boycott Chinese goods’ slogans.
The protest, led by the group’s president Bhupendra Tomar, was withdrawn after Additional Commissioner of Police, Gautam Buddh Nagar, lodged an FIR beneath IPC part 188/268/170 for violating COVID-19 lockdown guidelines. Tomar, alias Pinky Chaudhary is similar man who took duty for instigating violence that broke out on JNU campus in January this 12 months.
Sanket Katara, advocate and Hindu Raksha Dal spokesperson advised ET that the demonstration outdoors Oppo’s manufacturing facility, is ‘first among many’ which they plan to do, if the Indo-China face off within the Galwan valley results in any extra casualties on Indian forces.
“No brand can afford to stop production as things have just resumed and everyone expects to cater to pent-up demand,” Faisal Kawoosa, founder and chief analyst at analysis agency TechArc stated.
“There is anti China sentiment which could impact the sales in short run, but, in the long run we may not be able to do without them,” Kawoosa stated. “Clearly, South-Korean brand Samsung stands to gain out of this since it is a popular affordable brand.”
Oppo and Realme didn’t reply to ET’s question until press time.
Oppo had resumed manufacturing on May 7, after a 50-day shutdown with 3,000 staff out of its whole 10,000 workforce on May 7 however needed to shut the manufacturing facility inside every week as six folks had examined constructive for Covid. The plant was reopened within the final week of May, in response to folks near the corporate.
As per firm statements, Oppo produces four million smartphones per thirty days in its Greater Noida plant. Realme and Oppo are quantity 4 and 5 smartphone manufacturers in India with a market share of 13.1% and 10.6% respectively, as per knowledge from IDC.
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