Tim Cook (center) and deirdre o ' Brien (right) at the opening of Apple Saket. Image Credit: Apple
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>>> Apple plans to add the third official Apple store to its list in India, strengthening the status of the country as important for the growth of iphone and production sales. Apple intends to expand its presence in India, and its third potentially opens in Bangalore.According to the rental documents seen by the Business Standard, Apple rented a space with an area of 8,000 square feet in Bengalorra Phoenix Mall from Asia. This is less than half of the place of 20,800 square feet BKC, but there will be approximately the same size as the location of SAKET.
The location itself will be units F-39 to the F-42, on the ground floor of the shopping center.
Apple will pay an annual rent of 2.09 RROR ($ 244,000) per place, the documents say that the rent is increasing by 15% every three years. Nevertheless, Apple will also have to pay the lessor by 2% reduction in income from the store for the first three years, after which increasing to 2.5%, to a maximum of two times the cost of the most main rent.
The lease began on November 8, 2024, and the rental was paid on August 8, 2025. The shopping center cannot rent any place for companies in the list.
The importance of India
An increase in Apple stores is an indicator that Apple is seriously related to its intentions in the country. As the next major IPhone sales center, this is a huge potential market for Apple.
which is more important, India is the key to the Apple plan to reduce its dependence on China for production needs. After more than a decade of production focused on China, it gradually spread to other countries, and India became a viable second production center.
still used Apple and its partners on the supply chain investing in new factories and production lines, and convincing authorities allow to build objects.
The plan is still successful for Apple, since the intention was to minimize the influence of global events or international policy from interfering in the supply chain.
This is convincingly demonstrated by the continuing tariff business of the United States, which briefly saw how Apple is faced with the prospect of cope with mass IPhone Imphone Import. In fact, Apple has shifted to guarantee that as many iPhones were obtained from India.
Indeed, in the second quarter of 2025, CEO Tim Cook said that half of the iPhone sold in the United States came from India production lines. The import of Apple from India also doubled in April when problems with the tariff began.
Apple, reportedly gave an idea of the intention for almost every iPhone 18 sold in the United States to come from India.
with a plan from the movement of some production from China and India, as shown, is extremely effective, it opens the door for doubling apples to this idea. Thanks to recent investments in India production will become an even more important country for Apple production efforts.
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