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Article: The $50 billion club: the gap between the top 10 EMS companies and their smaller rivals is striking.(Top 50 EMS Companies)(Company rankings)
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- Circuits Assembly
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Determining the size of the largest EMS companies is more difficult than would first appear. Just looking at the major players' annual revenues is recipe for error. Many of these companies also perform original design work, and market self-designed and manufactured products under other companies' brands. Moreover, in many cases, they make products such as bare boards (Foxconn, Sanmina-SCI, Viasystems) or connectors or other components (Vogt Electronic, Foxconn again), yet don't break out those sales from EMS-specific revenues. In some instances, they are subsidiaries of OEM conglomerates, as is the case with Hitachi OMD and Connect Systems International, or a joint venture ...