Apple expands India presence with new office in Bengaluru

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Apple has widened its presence in the country with a new office at Minsk Square in downtown Bengaluru, underlining its commitment to the Indian market.

The office is the latest addition to the company’s corporate office footprint in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Gurugram.

Apple’s new office in Bengaluru comprises 15 floors and features dedicated lab space. It will house up to 1,200 employees.

"Apple is thrilled to expand in India with our new office in the heart of Bengaluru. This dynamic city is already home to many talented teams, including software engineering and hardware technologies, operations, customer support, and more. Like everything we do at Apple, this workspace is created to foster innovation, creativity, and connection. It’s an amazing space for our teams to collaborate,” an Apple spokesperson said.

The iPhone maker's teams in Bengaluru work across a wide range of Apple businesses including software, hardware, services, IS&T, operations, and customer support.

The tech giant has nearly 3,000 employees in India. Its work with Indian suppliers of all sizes supports hundreds of thousands of jobs nationwide.

The new office’s interior features locally sourced materials, including stone, wood, and fabric, in the walls and flooring, and the office is filled with native plants. It uses best practices in energy conservation, will run on 100 percent renewable energy, and aims to achieve a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum rating — the highest level of LEED certification.

Apple has been carbon neutral for its corporate operations since 2020 and has run all Apple facilities using 100 percent renewable energy since 2018.

Apple produced iPhones worth over Rs 1 lakh crore in India last year, having ramped up output sharply from the year before. Of this, made-in-India iPhones worth Rs 65,000 crore were exported from January to December.

Apple has exceeded the targets under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, which may allow its contract manufacturers to get more residual incentives depending on the outlay, the Economic Times reported on January 9.