Solectron

Short description: Electronics manufacturing company

Solectron Corporation

Headquarters in Milpitas, California

Type| Public company

Traded as

| NYSE: SLR
Industry| Electronics Manufacturing Services, product design and after sales services
Fate| Purchased by Flextronics
Successor| Flex
Founded| 1977
Defunct| 2007
Products| Consumer Electronics, Routers, Switches, TVs
Revenue| US$10.56 billion (2006)[1]

Solectron Corporation was an American electronics manufacturing company for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It was the first electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry in 1977.[citation needed] Solectron's first customer designed and distributed an electronic controller for solar energy equipment. The name "Solectron" was a portmanteau of the words "solar" and "electronics".[2]

Solectron had sales of around $12 billion a year, and employed 70,000 people in 23 countries.[3] The company was acquired by Flex on October 15, 2007.[4]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 1.1 Management succession
* 2 References
* 3 External links

## History

Solectron was established in 1977 to provide outsourced manufacturing services to third parties. It was a major manufacturer, but you would have not found its name on any products. Solectron founders Roy Kusumoto and Prabhat Jain saw a growing number of electronics companies in California's Silicon Valley. There was a need to provide printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) services, handling the manufacturing overflow from OEMs. Solectron aimed to provide high-tech companies the ability for their products to be produced and delivered more quickly and efficiently than their competition, and believed that their customers needed a greater level of service for assembly and manufacture of printed circuit boards, cellular phones, along the entire product supply chain.[5]

### Management succession

Michael R. Cannon was named president and chief executive officer in January 2003.[6]

## References

1. ↑ SLR – Solitario Resources Corporation – Google Finance
2. ↑ Industrial Automation
3. ↑ "Solectron - The invisible multinational". http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/151_globalgiants/page10.shtml.
4. ↑ "Flextronics Buys Solectron for $3.6 Billion". CNBC. Reuters. 2007-06-04. https://www.cnbc.com/id/19025055.
5. ↑ "Home". http://www.transparentc.com/.
6. ↑ Michael R. Cannon

## External links

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