Acer Australia claims that they are not going to cease local production despite several staff being laid off this week, they also claim that they are not going to adopt a retail only model despite claims to the contrary by current serving staff.

Acer CEO Charles Chung who has not returned calls to

ChannelNews has written a letter to dealers claiming that the Taiwanese Company

who reported a $5M loss last year and a 38% decline in sales will not be ceasing production of PCs for schools, corporations and governments.

He said “Nothing could be further from the truth and we have

no plans to either stop or slow down our production capacity. We are the only

company that invested heavily in a local assembly line in Australia allowing us

to serve our channel partners and corporate, government, and education

customers efficiently”.

Earlier this week ChannelNews was contacted by current

serving management who claimed that there was infighting among management over

cuts and the slowing of sales. Prior to being contacted by current serving

staff we have held several discussions with former staff who have left Acer

claiming that there is major problems at Acer Australia.

Charles Chung said” There is no instability at Acer

Australia and we have not undergone any “mass sackings”. As with any

large company, we periodically and routinely assesses staff performance and

business requirements, and some individuals were recently let go through this

review”.

Chung also denied that the Company is moving to a retail

model He wrote “Acer Australia has very strong commercial and education

business and is not planning any changes to the way we currently do

business”.

He also said that Acer have expanded their field service

operations across Australia in the last 12 months.