Motorola factory in Texas to close by the end of this year

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The Moto X was widely praised by critics. Did that same feedback nudge consumers to buy? Apparently not. Motorola will be closing its Texas factory, used to assemble the Moto X with Moto Maker, to do low sales and the cost of running the operation. Basically, the Texas factory was bleeding money for the company and now it will be closing by the end of this year. This comes just a year after the factory opened in May 2013.

This comes as Lenovo is set to takeover Motorola at in the near future. The Chinese giant would not answer questions regarding its plans on what they would do with the United States assembly strategy, but now they will not have to worry at all. It seems that cost-cutting has been ongoing as the factory’s amount of employees has been steadily dropping over the course of the last year. Lenovo can move everything overseas and see much lower costs for Motorola.

Source: The Wall Street Journal


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