Acer opens Acer Mall in Bangalore

Acer India has announced the opening of its exclusive brand store, the Acer
Mall, in Bangalore. This has been done in association its channel partner
Vaibhav Systems and Networks based in Bangalore. This outlet will carry the
entire range of Acer Desktops, Notebooks and consumer peripherals, which would
include the Aspire series of consumer PCs and the TravelMate notebook series.

"We are extremely pleased that Vaibhav Systems and Networks is
partnering with us in this endeavor to open an exc-lusive brand store in
Bangalore. We opened our first Acer Mall in December 2003 and since then have
experienced tre-mendous growth in our retail initiatives.

We have more than 15 Acer Malls (exclusive brand stores) across the country.
The exclu-sive brand store at Bangalore is to further reiterate our com-mitment
to this market and the potential it holds," said S Rajendran, Consumer
Product Group GM (Sales and Market-ing), Acer India (Pvt) Ltd "Our foray
into retail has been to ensure that our customers have a comprehensive
knowle-dge of our consumer product range and also ensure conven-ient access to
our products, both of which this store fulfills," he added.

Acer's retail stores fall into two categories-'Acer Mall' and 'Acer
Points. Presently, there are 15 Acer Malls and 70 Acer Points across the
country. Acer plans to have Acer Malls and Acer Points across the country and is
on a major expansion drive.

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