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Rollins on Macs, Michael Dell and more
News It has been just six months since Kevin Rollins took over the reigns at the helm of PC giant Dell last year after founder Michael Dell stepped aside as CEO. ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com caught up with Rollins on a visit to Dell's sprawling...
[January 19, 2005, 12:40]
Rollins signals Dell deal with AMD
News Dell chief executive Kevin Rollins on Monday gave the most direct indication yet that a deal with AMD may be on the way, dropping a strong hint that the news was a question of when, not if. Speaking in Paris at the launch of Dell's first blade...
[November 15, 2004, 15:25]
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]
Rollins on Macs, Michael Dell and more
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[January 19, 2005, 14:22]
Dell plans Indian manufacturing arm
News Dell's march across India continued on Monday as chief executive, Kevin Rollins, announced plans to add 5,000 to its Indian workforce and build a new call centre, which may precede Dell's first manufacturing plant in the country.
[January 30, 2006, 11:25]
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 ex-CEO lands $50m payout
News Dell's former chief executive, Kevin Rollins, will be paid nearly $50m (£24.6m), despite previous reports that he'd walk away with one-tenth that amount. Dell said in a report filed on Wednesday that, once the company finally files an annual report...
[August 9, 2007, 13:06]
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]
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]
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]
Reinvention time for Michael Dell
News The usual bag of tricks — leveraging the supply chain and their economies of scale — hasn't worked," Richard Shim, an analyst with IDC, said after Dell announced the departure of Rollins. Kevin Rollins came into Dell in 1996 as the operations and...
[February 1, 2007, 14:46]
Dell sets off on overseas sales blitz
News Rollins said that if Dell's market share were the same in other geographic markets as it is in the United States, "we would be adding about another $28bn to the incredible revenue upside for Dell. In a presentation during Dell's annual analysts...
[April 6, 2001, 8:08]
Dell chooses new chief
News More than anything else, it publicly acknowledges Rollins' contributions to the company, they said. Michael Dell, founder of the Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker, plans to pass the crown to his second-in-command, Kevin Rollins, in July.
[March 5, 2004, 10:20]
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, Microsoft announce new server alliance
News Dell's president and CEO, Kevin Rollins, and Bob Muglia, senior vice-president in Microsoft's server division, announced the partnership at a press conference in Paris. Rollins said that the first product to come from the joint work will combine...
[November 16, 2004, 11:15]
Dell dashes AMD's hopes
News Kevin Rollins, Dell's CEO, told attendees of the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium in Phoenix that Dell looked harder at AMD during Intel's difficulties in 2004. AMD has "done some nice things, and they are making some headway", Rollins...
[February 24, 2005, 8:10]
Dell gets profits back on track
News The company was also helped by an extra week in this year's fourth quarter as compared with the previous year's quarter, Rollins said. The growth in the company's XPS line-up helped it improve the margins of its PC business during the quarter...
[February 17, 2006, 15:35]
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]
