It''s been a bad time for Nokia not just in India but around the world. The Finnish phone major has been battling with the issue of defective batteries.Barely a week after the world''s largest mobile phone manufacturer recalled some of its batteries anticipating overheating, the company''s global CEO Olli Pekka Kallasvuo is in India to do some serious firefighting on his company''s behalf.
Nokia''s boss is quick to point out where the blame really lies-with Matsushita of Japan which manufactured defective batteries.
But an incident like this raises serious questions around the whole issue of vendor management, where despite high quality standards, grave concerns like these continue to creep in.
Trouble is, there is no getting away from a manufacturing outsourced model like this. But away from defective batteries, Nokia''s boss did talk about his investment plans in India.
Nokia manufactures mobile phones in Chennai and has so far shipped 60 million phones from there, of which two million have been exported to 58 countries and a new facility is also being set up by Nokia Siemens Network in Chennai.
Away from the controversies Nokia''s CEO certainly hopes that India, the second largest market for his company will continue to grow explosively and add to a robust topline.
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