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Michael Dell takes reins as Rollins resigns
News Dell announced on Wednesday that Kevin Rollins has resigned as chief executive officer, and company founder Michael Dell has retaken the helm of the PC company. Another market trend that Dell was late to recognise under Rollins' tenure was the...
[February 1, 2007, 7:50]
Dell: Exploding battery investigation ongoing
News He also reaffirmed his faith in incumbent Dell chief executive Kevin Rollins, despite shares in the company having fallen by 45 percent over the past year. In terms of leadership, Kevin Rollins is an outstanding executive," Dell said.
[August 14, 2006, 15:35]
Dell and AMD: Looking back through the years
News Kevin Rollins, November 2004. Kevin Rollins, November 2004. Kevin Rollins, Dell chief executive, October 2004. Kevin Rollins, February 2005. Kevin Rollins, August 2006. Kevin Rollins, May 2006. However, more than three years after AMD introduced...
[August 21, 2006, 10:25]
Dell's bad news means job cuts and weak earnings
News Dell Vice Chairman Kevin Rollins offered his own take on margins. Our enterprise products, services and our notebook products are now in excess of 50 percent of our overall revenue and in excess of two-thirds of our profitability," Rollins said.
[February 16, 2001, 8:01]
Big names in the frame to replace Fiorina
News Kevin Rollins: Headhunters salivate whenever the Dell CEO's name comes up. If I were HP's board, I would do whatever I could to pull Kevin Rollins out of Dell," Nosal said. I don't know that there is a recipe that can turn it around," Rollins said...
[February 10, 2005, 16:20]
Dell executives get pay boost
News Dell chief executive Kevin Rollins is getting a 17 percent increase in his annual salary, making him second only to founder Michael Dell in pay, the company said on Tuesday as part of a filling with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
[June 3, 2005, 14:20]
Is Dell's growth sustainable?
News When it comes to pushing the right buttons, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins arguably has racked up the best record of any computer executive this side of Steve Jobs. For instance, Rollins wants to drive prices of big-screen digital televisions down to under...
[November 2, 2004, 13:49]
Michael Dell defends his chief executive
News Speaking at the company's Technology Day event in New York, Dell responded to critics who claim chief executive Kevin Rollins should quit over the company's current financial problems. Feel free to speculate [about Rollins' dismissal].
[September 14, 2006, 13:40]
Incoming Dell chief reaps £20m of options
News Kevin Rollins, Dell's soon-to-be chief executive officer, exercised stock options worth $35.9m (£19.5m) during the company's last fiscal year. That amount far exceeded Rollins' salary and bonus for the year, according to figures in a Thursday...
[May 28, 2004, 15:00]
Dell reiterates $80bn target
News Dell chief executive Kevin Rollins has reiterated he thinks the computer maker has the potential to be an $80bn (£46bn) company in the next three to four years but not through its US-based bread-and-butter PC business, echoing comments he made in...
[July 18, 2005, 9:45]
Dell sets off on overseas sales blitz
News In a presentation during Dell's annual analysts meeting on Thursday, vice chairman Kevin Rollins said the company is in a "show-me mode" as it seeks to demonstrate that it "can consistently grow into these markets both profitably and at much...
[April 6, 2001, 8:08]
Dell delving deeper into wireless territory
News Dell Computer will expand deeper into the wireless market as part of its overall goal of increasing annual revenue to $60bn, or about £38.4bn, in the next few years, according to company President Kevin Rollins.
[May 1, 2003, 8:59]
Dell expecting more from second quarter
News The company, which will make Kevin Rollins its new chief executive as part of its shareholder meeting later on Friday morning, has been on a roll of late. Later today, Rollins and company founder Michael Dell, who will step aside as chief executive...
[July 16, 2004, 15:20]
To Dell and back
Leader Now a resurgent Apple is the darling of the stock market while Dell's miserable performance has seen Wall Street press the eject button on chief executive Kevin Rollins. Michael Dell, on the other hand, has worked side by side with Rollins since...
[February 1, 2007, 15:04]
PC boom boosts Dell
News We've again shown Dell's unique ability to profitably earn a larger share of business by focusing on standards-based technologies, managing costs and creating value for customers," Dell president Kevin Rollins said in a statement.
[August 15, 2003, 12:55]
Dell: Hitting the $80bn target
News Over time, Dell's PC unit sales will become less of an indication of how the company is performing, CEO Kevin Rollins said at the meeting. Printers is one of those that's in the define phase and we'll move shortly into the growth phase," Rollins said.
[April 8, 2005, 17:25]
Dell to call ceasefire in PC price war?
News From the standpoint of a pricing environment, we have not seen things particularly change (in the third quarter) and do not plan to change things from" the third quarter to the fourth, Dell President Kevin Rollins said during a conference call...
[November 16, 2001, 8:47]
Dell foots big bills in third quarter
News We are disappointed that we didn't hit all of our numbers for the quarter, but we're always looking for better ways to improve the efficiencies of our business," said Dell chief executive Kevin Rollins during a conference call with the press.
[November 11, 2005, 9:15]
AMD chips win broader Dell approval
News On a conference call after the AMD announcement, Dell chief executive Kevin Rollins cited the cost advantage the PC company would enjoy, as well as AMD's technology, as the reasons behind the move. There is a value in choice," Rollins said.
[August 18, 2006, 8:45]
Dell Opteron sale 'an anomaly'
News The AMD denial came only weeks after Dell chief operating officer Kevin Rollins, who has since taken on the role of chief executive, took another chance to dismiss the chip company as he spoke to students at the University of Chicago's Graduate...
[March 24, 2004, 16:02]
