Apple reportedly restructuring global sales businesses to focus on India
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is reportedly restructuring its international sales operations to place a larger focus on India.
Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that the tech giant is promoting its head of India Ashish Chowdhary to succeed recently retired Hugues Asseman, who led India, the Middle East, Mediterranean, East Europe and Africa regions for the company.

Chowdhary will now report directly to Apple's head of product sales, Michael Fenger.
The shuffle will mark the first time that India becomes its own sales region at Apple (AAPL), the report added. The country has seen demand surge at a time when global sales have slowed down.
In its recent earnings call, Apple CEO Timothy Cook noted that, "India is a hugely exciting market for us and is a major focus. Looking at the business in India, we set a quarterly revenue record and grew very strong double digits year-over-year."
Shares of the iPhone maker were marginally down in Thursday's premarket hours