S Mobility increased the number of stores to 792 Spice
Hotspot Stores across 159 cities as on Jun 30, 2011 compared with 735 stores
last year, offering a wide range of mobile handsets, accessories, gaming
devices, airtime recharge, connections and VAS services.
Before Spice, Sanjeev was the national marketing manager
Nokia business at HCL Infosystems.
Sanjeev is becoming the CEO at a time when devices and
retail businesses are doing well, but facing challenges in the market because
of competition.
S Mobility sold 2.2 million handsets in Q1 FY 2012, showing
a growth of 22 percent in volumes compared to 1.8 million units in the
corresponding quarter last year.
The Spice branded handsets sales grew from 1.3 million in Q1
FY 2010-11 to 1.5 million in Q1 FY 2011-12.
S Mobility has launched several firsts including
the dual SIM phones across GSM, CDMA, Tri-band & Touch Screen PDA and
smart devices on Android platform. SMobility also became the first
company in the country to introduce a 12 mega pixel camera phone with optical
zoom.
Recently, S Mobility features in Forbes 2010, as
amongst Asia’s 200 Best Billion dollar companies.
By Baburajan K
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