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APJ Properties
Description Principal Locations Owned (square feet) Leased (square feet)
Business Centers(a)
n China - Dalian and Xiamen
n India - Bangalore, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, and Mohali
n Japan - Kawasaki
n Malaysia - Penang and Kuala Lumpur
n Philippines - Metro Manila
300,000 3.2 million
Manufacturing
and Distribution
n China - Xiamen
n Malaysia - Penang
n India - Chennai
1.1 million -
Design Centers n China - Shanghai
n India - Bangalore
n Singapore
n Taiwan - Taipei
- 500,000
(a) Business center locations include facilities with capacity greater than 1,000 people. Operations within these centers include sales, technical support, administrative, and support
functions. Locations of smaller business centers are not listed; however, the smaller centers are included in the square footage.
In general, our Americas, EMEA, and APJ regions use properties within their geographies. However, business centers in the Philippines and India,
which house sales, customer care, technical support, and administrative support functions, are used by each of our geographic regions. During Fiscal
2009, we closed a manufacturing plant in Austin, Texas and business centers in Ottawa and Edmonton, Canada, and we sold our call center in El
Salvador and our small package hub operations in West Chester, Ohio. At the end of Fiscal 2009, a business center in Casablanca, Morocco was
under construction. Additionally, we announced the disposition of the sale of our customer contact center in the Philippines in Fiscal 2010.
We plan to migrate all production of computer systems for customers in EMEA from our Limerick, Ireland manufacturing facility to our facility in
Poland and third-party manufacturing partners over the next year. The manufacturing migration and subsequent closure of our Limerick facility will
be completed in a phased transition during calendar 2009. We may realign, sell, or close additional facilities depending on a number of factors,
including end-user demand, capabilities, and our migration to a more variable cost manufacturing model. These actions will result in additional
business realignment costs in the future, although no plans were finalized at January 30, 2009.
ITEM 3 — LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
The information required by this item is set forth under Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in
"Part II — Item 8 — Financial Statements and Supplementary Data", and is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 4 — SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
No matter was submitted to a vote of our stockholders, through the solicitation of proxies or otherwise, during the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2009.
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