Amazon to Make Fire TV Sticks in First India Manufacturing Push
- Retailer to partner with Foxconn subsidiary in Chennai
- Companies to start production of the devices later this year
Amazon’s Fire TV stick
Photographer: Michael Short/Bloomberg
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Amazon.com Inc. will begin making devices in India for the first time, joining a flock of technology companies setting up manufacturing operations in the South Asian country.
The Seattle-based e-commerce giant will start making the devices via a subsidiary of its manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group and production will start later this year in its facilities outside Chennai, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.