Dell in 1984 by Michael. Dell was founded and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Michael. Dell's philosophy is simple: create a computer in accordance with customer requirements, direct shipping to customers. Dell can make the most effective and clear understanding of customer needs, and then quickly respond.
Dell's direct model eliminates the middlemen, thus reducing unnecessary costs and time for Dell to better understand customer needs. Dell's direct sales model that allows companies to a competitive price, for every consumer to customize and provide a powerful system with rich configuration. By an average of three days of inventory update, Dell to the latest relevant technologies to the consumer, but also much faster than those running slow, take distribution pattern of the company.
Direct sales in the firm under the guidance of philosophy, after 20 years of development, Dell has venture capital from 1000 U.S. dollars into the industry's fastest growing, most profitable companies, the leading advocate of the direct business model and leader. Dell's global sales in 2008 amounted to 57.9 billion U.S. dollars, approximately 78,700 employees worldwide, ranks in the Fortune 500 25. In the fourth quarter last fiscal, the company earnings of 144 million, operating profit was 8.01 billion, in cash and investments totaled 12.5 billion U.S. dollars; Dell's direct sales Web site www.***.com site 84 countries, the use 20 languages / dialects and 26 currencies, visit each quarter more than 20 billion times, the world's largest e-commerce site.