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Dell, whose operations in Europe have centered on Ireland to date, is looking to double its workforce in Scotland.
The PC maker plans to take advantage of a large pool of skilled IT people in Scotland who have previously worked for companies such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
Dell began setting up its operations in Scotland around December 2004, according to Josh Claman, Dell’s vice president and general manager for the U.K. This was around the time that IBM announced it was selling its PC business, part of which was based in Scotland, to Lenovo.
In May 2005, “we started moving some people to Glasgow,” Claman told ZDNet UK. “We moved a lot of technical support into Glasgow for our commercial business and we moved a lot of sales people into Glasgow and hired a lot in Glasgow.”