Ex-Dell boss heads consortium bid to save 3,000 jobs

FORMER Dell senior executive Nicky Hartery is understood to be leading a new business consortium which wants to take over the company’s Limerick plant and save its 3,000 jobs.

Michael Dell has decided to outsource all manufacturing at his nine plants worldwide and follow the lead of arch rival Hewlett-Packard.

Waterford-born Hartery left Dell last summer after he failed to get a commitment from the firm to proceed with further investment in the Limerick facility.