History of Dell

Michael Dell the brainchild of Austin, just at 19 as a pre-med freshman at University of Texas started selling personal computers to customers on cheap rates because of the fact the he manufacture IBM replicas with spare-parts that he would purchase and assembled them and sold them via mail-order. Michaels hard work and luck paid off and in just months’ time he was grossing $80,000 1984, due to which he also gave up school and decided to take this business up and about. He named his computers PC’s limited.
Michael established customer experience with risk-free return scheme and home productive assistance in 1985. It was soon enough when this young boy got under the spot light of electronic media for creating the fastest performing PC with a 12MHz, 286-based system. This was proudly unveiled at the Spring Comdex Trade Show in 1986.

By 1987, the company was growing beyond with an incredible pace and handling the mail orders had become a hassle. In order to maintain the flow, he opened his first international subsidiary in UK.

By the next year, 1988, Michael Dell was making as much as 80 percent annually compelled him to take a dive and announced of going public with the official name Dell Computer Corporation. The name used in the present all across the globe. It just took Michael another 4 years to get to a point where he was found raising $30million. His $1000 had now increased to $85 million.

[large]Still ongoing to excel, Dell established subsidiaries in France and Italy and Ireland to serve the customer in Europe in 1990. Consequently with a total number of staff of 2100, Dell became the 6th largest PC maker of the United States. Furthermore, the company’s concern with the customer’s contentment paid off when it rated number one in J.D. Powers Associates’ first survey of PC customer satisfaction.

The next year is marked with an honor that Michael received for becoming the youngest CEO to a world class company in 1992. The next year 1993, is known not only for being ranked as the one of the top 5 companies worldwide but also for being a year in which Dell marked its first ingress in to Asia Pacific region when the company established its offices in Australia in Japan. And by 1995, Dell expands its global in Europe, Japan and America. In 1998 customer care and manufacturing centers were established in Xiamen, China and announced engineering sites in Ireland, Brazil and the United States. And by the end of 1999, Dell is ranked No. 1 in worldwide workstation shipments.

Dell, had another breakthrough of manufacturing Pcs with in-built Wi-Fi and by 2004 becomes China’s 3rd largest PC provider. In next few years, Dell launches carbon neutral programs for corporate customers. In 2009, Dell enters the Smartphone market with the Mini 3i from China Mobile, and came up with Streak a 5 inches tablet in 2010.