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Foxconn
The world's largest electronics manufacturer, officially Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Taiwan, it employs nearly a million people in Europe, India,...
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Definition: Foxconn
The world's largest electronics manufacturer, officially Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Taiwan, it employs nearly a million people in Europe, India, Brazil and Mexico, but mostly in China with the largest facility in the Longhua district of Shenzhen. Foxconn makes products for companies around the world. In the U.S., some of its customers include Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, HP and IBM.
Nobody Can Compete
Foxconn's customers claim that no organization in the world is as capable, flexible and committed to meet large-scale production deadlines and respond to last minute changes.
A Lot of Notoriety
Foxconn has been in the news for the harsh treatment of its employees, many of whom live and work in company dormitories and endure long shifts. After a number of suicides in 2010, nets were draped around the buildings to prevent jumping. In addition, the hands of some of the young workers who perform repetitive motion year after year have become extremely impaired. Foxconn is the focus of Mike Daisey's one-man show, "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," which has been performed around the country.
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iPhone manufacturer Foxconn to double worker salaries by 2013
Foxconn’s current base salary ($350) per month is already higher than the RMB 1,500 ($240) statutory minimum wage per month in the city of Shenzhen.
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Foxconn reportedly begins pilot production of Apple TV set
Chinese news sources seem to back up earlier claims made by Foxconn chief executive that the iPhone and iPad maker was preparing the production of an Apple-branded a television set.
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Hon Hai, Foxconn squeezed on demand, rising salaries
Foxconn's handset unit is seeing lower demand as parent Hon Hai's earnings fall short of expectations.
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Apple's Foxconn flap may pinch contract manufacturers
Contract equipment manufacturers are going to face higher compliance and labor costs as companies like Foxconn try to put human rights worries to bed.
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