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	Flextronics International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Flextronics is the contract manufacturer behind a number of famous products: Microsoft's Xbox, Cisco routers, and Apple's iMacs, among others.
		The strategy is working: Flextronics has mushroomed from $93 million (U.S.) revenue in fiscal 1993 to $13.8 billion last year.
		Flextronics uses Baan 4.0 and 5.0 for enterprise resource planning, a data warehouse based on Oracle, Cognos reporting tools, a Citrix portal for partner views into Flextronics applications, and an internally developed shipping and warehouse fulfillment tool called Atlas.
	software.emc.com /about_us/customer/profiles/flextronics.htm (1165 words)

	Business Hungary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Flextronics was selected to be the sole manufacturer of the Xbox, Microsoft’s first try at the game console market (www.xbox.com/uk/).
		Flextronics Hungary shut down a plant in Zalalövô, where 150 people were employed, also planning further downsizing at the Zalaegerszeg and Tab plants.
		Flextronics Hungary is confident of meeting its target of producing 1.5 million game consoles for the European market in the first three months of the official European launch, meaning from March until June, according to Ms.
	www.amcham.hu /BusinessHungary/16-01/articles/16-01_26.asp (1082 words)

	Reiter's Camera Phone Report: Flextronics to produce camera phones with H-P imaging techonology in 2007
		Hewlett-Packard is licensing imaging technology to Flextronics for improving image quality in camera phones, according to an article CNET News, TheStreet.com and the company's press release (another unnecessary, memory-hogging pdf file).
		Flextronics, the huge contract manufacturer of cellular phonnes (among many other products), is expected to produce camera phones with H-P imaging technology in 2007.
		CNET also says Flextronics and H-P will work to get cellular phone manufacturers to use other H-P features, such as "slimming down" a person's image after the photo is taken.
	www.cameraphonereport.com /2006/11/flextronics_to_.html (561 words)

	RTE Business - Second jobs blow for Flextronics
		The Flextronics company based at the Plassey Technological Park in Limerick is to seek 130 redundancies from its workforce of 500 and a further 40 redundancies among its contract workers.
		It is understood the redundancies are to be voluntary.
		This is the second blow to Flextronics, which recently announced it was closing its plant at Tullamore with the loss of over 300 jobs.
	www.rte.ie /business/2002/0319/flextronics.html (144 words)

	Flextronics Fires Up
		Shares of Flextronics (FLEX:Nasdaq - commentary - research) enjoyed a modest boost Tuesday after one analyst upgraded his rating, arguing the company is set to grow faster than its competitors next year.
		"In fact, Flextronics should be one of the faster organic revenue growers in the EMS sector in calendar 2006," he said.
		Flextronics is in the process of divesting its network services and semiconductor businesses, which is expected to bring $550 million to the company.
	www.thestreet.com /_cnet/stocks/manufacturing/10237270.html (332 words)

	RTE Business - Flextronics to close Limerick plant
		The Flextronics company, which supplies networking products to the telecommunications and IT sectors, has announced that it is to close its manufacturing plant based at the Plassey technological park in Limerick from September.
		Flextronics has blamed the continuing weakness in the global electronics sector.
		Flextronics says most of the remaining workforce will be offered positions at Cork as part of the restructuring.
	www.rte.ie /business/2002/0708/flextronics.html (284 words)

	Flextronics International News - Page 2
		Flextronics International Ltd., the world's largest manufacturer of custom-made electronics, is firing about 30% of staff at one of its four Hungarian plants after losing a major client.
		Flextronics, a Singapore-based contract electronics manufacturer, announced that it has expanded its presence in India through the first phase completion of its planned eight million square foot industrial...
		Flextronics Components Group, a division of Flextronics, and HP have announced a five-year technology collaboration agreement to help mobile camera phone users capture photos with the same high quality they...
	www.topix.net /com/flex/page2 (909 words)

	Flextronics and BizTalk Server
		Flextronics, the Singapore-based electronics manufacturing services provider with $12.1 billion in annual revenues and 70,000 employees worldwide, is using Microsoft BizTalk Server to receive trading partner documents in a wide variety of formats and process them into its own enterprise systems through a single integration hub.
		Clearly, Flextronics had to streamline partner communications, and it looked for a solution that allowed management of all partner transactions through a single platform.
		Flextronics sees BizTalk Server as a major vehicle for application integration and unified business processes, whether it be for deploying work orders or collaborating on long-range forecasts.
	www.manufacturingsystems.com /custompub/microsoft/1002/flextronics.htm (891 words)

	Business: Flextronics to shutter Pinellas site
		As Flextronics customers assess their needs, "it carries over to how they forecast to us what we will be manufacturing for them," company spokeswoman Barbara Bough said.
		Flextronics occupies a 130,000-square-foot building that at one time was home to a Sam's Club on U.S. It had been purchased and renovated for $7.5-million by Dovatron, a company that produced circuit boards and that later was bought by Flextronics.
		Flextronics' stock has lost more than half its value, falling from a 52-week high of $43 a share to close Monday at $15.90, down 64 cents.
	www.sptimes.com /News/100201/Business/Flextronics_to_shutte.shtml (399 words)

	Agile PLM \| Customer Results \| Flextronics
		Headquartered in Singapore, Flextronics is the leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on delivering innovative design and manufacturing services to technology companies.
		With fiscal year 2004 revenues of USD$14.5 billion, Flextronics is a major global operating company that helps customers design, build, ship, and service electronics products through a network of facilities in 32 countries and five continents.
		Flextronics eliminated the traditional manual, error-prone cycle times associated with communicating product changes, this reduced Microsoft's new product introduction (NPI) cycle time by several critical months.
	www.agile.com /customers/results/flextronics.asp (401 words)

	Flextronics tilts toward SoC design services
		Moreover, Flextronics' contract-manufacturing business is heavily weighted toward handheld devices and cellular phones, which tend to be a popular destination for the low-power RISC processor core.
		Flextronics considers ASIC design the next logical step for a $13.1 billion company that has made cost reduction its mantra.
		Because it is still relatively new to SoC design, Flextronics Semiconductor often tends to draw as customers younger companies that may not have the kind of track record to entice some of the bigger ASIC providers.
	www.us.design-reuse.com /news/news3721.html (904 words)

	Ottawa Business Journal - News Story
		Flextronics International Ltd. has won the final approval of U.S. antitrust authorities for its takeover of Nortel Network Corp.'s manufacturing operations.
		In June a deal was struck worth an estimated $2.5 billion a year for Singapore-based Flextronics (all figures in U.S. dollars).
		The deal includes a four-year supply agreement for manufacturing services in which Flextronics will manage about $2.5 billion of Nortel's annual cost of sales, as well as a three-year supply agreement for design services.
	www.ottawabusinessjournal.com /281241973543476.php (416 words)

	Wired 9.11: The Making of the Xbox
		The 50-year-old Marks is quick with a smile and speaks at a pace that suggests he's onto something big, namely a sector known as electronics manufacturing services, or EMS, which assembles things like PCs and consumer gadgets for clients.
		Since he took the top job at Flextronics in 1993, Marks has been preaching the benefits of contract manufacturing to consumer electronics companies of all stripes.
		Flextronics has grown from $93 million in revenues in 1993 to about $15 billion this year.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/9.11/flex.html (1072 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Flextronics Network Services Acquires JR Paulista in Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Flextronics Network Services is a business unit of Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX) and a global, independent leader in multi-vendor network services for mobile and fixed networks.
		Flextronics Network Services, a business unit of Flextronics, is a global, independent leader in multivendor network services.
		Flextronics Network Services has established a leading position in the global marketplace as a valued supplier of IT and communications technologies, as well as advanced 3G services.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=61622 (504 words)

	Nortel Networks to transfer supply chain operations to Flextronics
		Flextronics today announced the signing of an agreement with Nortel Networks whereby Nortel Networks will divest certain optical, wireless, and enterprise manufacturing operations and optical design operations to Flextronics.
		Over time, Flextronics expects to consolidate and internally source its vertically integrated supply chain solutions, which include the fabrication and assembly of printed circuit boards and enclosures, as well as logistics and repair services.
		Flextronics' ability to provide end-to-end operational services that include innovative product design, test solutions, manufacturing, IT expertise, network services, and logistics has established the company as the leading EMS provider.
	www.itweb.co.za /office/flextronics/0407010833.htm (949 words)

	High-tech manufacturers add brains to brawn \| CNET News.com
		Flextronics, for example, just bought Chicago-based Chatham Technologies for $590 million, giving it expertise in designing and building cases.
		Flextronics also bought one of the larger contract manufacturing firms, Dii Group, for $2.4 billion in April.
		Flextronics' Smach said growing as fast as possible is a matter of survival.
	news.com.com /High-tech+manufacturers+...+brawn/2100-1001_3-244668.html (1730 words)

	Light Reading - Nortel - Flextronics Isn't Soft on Software - Telecom News Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Flextronics Corp. (Nasdaq: FLEX - message board) is flexing muscles in the software area, making moves that could boost the contract manufacturer's standing as OEMs outsource bigger chunks of system design.
		Flextronics appears to be the first large contract manufacturer to amass a software group, beating out competitors Celestica Inc. (NYSE, Toronto: CLS - message board), Jabil Circuit Inc. (NYSE: JBL - message board), and Solectron Corp. (NYSE: SLR - message board).
		In a July earnings call, Flextronics CEO Michael Marks told analysts HSS would be "probably the highest margin business unit" in the company, with post-tax margins of 21 percent.
	www.lightreading.com /document.asp?doc_id=58720 (893 words)

	ITworld.com - Flextronics sells software unit for $900 million
		Flextronics lost its crown as the largest contract IT producer in the world a few years ago to Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.
		Flextronics, which manufactures IT products for global companies, such as Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 game console, has been selling off divisions in recent years in an effort to focus on its electronics manufacturing services (EMS) business.
		Flextronics expects to receive over $600 million in cash from the sale of the software business, and will hold a $250 million face value note that matures in eight years as part of the deal.
	www.itworld.com /Man/3920/060417flextronics (535 words)

	Flextronics expands again - Jul. 31, 2000
		Until recently, Flextronics (FLEX: Research, Estimates) -- which is domiciled in Singapore but does has most of its corporate offices in San Jose, Calif. -- had focused its business "inside the box," designing and building the circuit boards and other elements of electronics while relying on other companies for the box that surrounds the electronics.
		But even more interesting than the strategic move the deal represents for Flextronics is the light it sheds on the value of some other enclosure companies, Dunne said.
		Flextronics (FLEX: Research, Estimates) shares inched up 29/32 to 70-25/32 in trading Monday.
	money.cnn.com /2000/07/31/deals/flextronics/index.htm (639 words)

	Flextronics completes IDW buy - Sacramento Business Journal:
		The trading day opened on Wall Street without International DisplayWorks Inc. The Roseville tech manufacturer officially became part of Flextronics International Ltd. on Thursday with the closing of an acquisition deal with an enterprise value of about $243 million.
		They will become part of Singapore-based contract manufacturer Flextronics (Nasdaq: FLEX) as part of the stock swap that exchanged 0.5653 Flextronics share for every share of IDW.
		Flextronics shares closed up 5 cents at $11.30 in higher-than-usual trading volume Friday.
	sacramento.bizjournals.com /sacramento/stories/2006/11/27/daily42.html (486 words)

	Flextronics Design Ukraine - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Flextronics Design Ukraine, being a subsidiary of Flextronics International, has the breadth of software development experience that customers require to bring new products and solutions to market.
		Flextronics is the leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on delivering innovative design and manufacturing services to technology companies.
		Flextronics is an international company that helps customers design, build, ship, and service electronics products through a network of facilities in 32 countries and five continents.
	www.flextronicsdesign.com.ua (245 words)

	Flextronics Reports; I Say Farewell
		Flextronics is the kind of company that breaks investors' hearts slowly but consistently.
		Flextronics reported quarterly earnings after the close yesterday and, man, was it a stinker.
		Predictably, the press release announcing the disaster was somewhat upbeat, but Flextronics has been relentlessly upbeat for years for no discernible reason.
	blog.kiplinger.com /blog/archives/2005/10/flextronics_rep.html (572 words)

	25 Unsung Heroes - Michael Marks - Chairman and Chief Executive, Flextronics
		In 1994, Michael Marks took the reins of Flextronics, which was then a small contract manufacturer pulling down less than $100 million per year, and turned it into a global manufacturing behemoth that expects to generate $13 billion in revenue this fiscal year.
		Flextronics, which operates 150 factories worldwide and has 70,000 employees, has been the fastest-growing company in the outsourced electronics manufacturing sector, though it's No. 2 in sales behind Solectron.
		Flextronics' stock has declined in the past month amid the news of lower earnings and layoffs at technology companies.
	www.eweek.com /article2/0,1895,945183,00.asp (948 words)

	Flextronics Jobs: Vault Jobs & Employment Profiles
		Flextronics employee surveys are collected by Vault editors, Vault Gold Surveys provide detailed information on jobs and employment at specific employers.
		Employee Workplace: Flextronics is one of Fortune top 500 companies and a leading EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Servic...
		Business Outlook: Flextronics Malaysia is contract manufacturing and output or volume is the utmost importance.
	www.vault.com /jobs-company/Flextronics.html (271 words)

	Flextronics to Buy International DisplayWorks
		Flextronics will issue more stock if its shares fall and fewer if its shares rise, subject to limits.
		Flextronics said it expects this transaction to be neutral to diluted EPS expectations in the first 12 months and to be accretive thereafter.
		Flextronics said it plans to combine IDW's LCD operations with Flextronics' Camera Module Group, TV tuner and WiFi and TFT module assembly operations to create a new business unit within Flextronics' Components Division.
	www.thestreet.com /newsanalysis/technetworking/10307029.html (299 words)

	HP Makes a Call to Flextronics - HP Makes a Call to Flextronics - PopPhotoNovember 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We all have our hang-ups about camera phone image quality (bad but irresistible pun), but Flextronics Components Group, a division of Flextronics, and HP are trying to reconnect with consumers (okay, no more puns, really).
		Flextronics’ Components Group is one of the world’s largest camera module designers and manufacturers, and recently cut a deal with Eastman Kodak to produce and design their digital cameras.
		Flextronics will embed HP's technology into mid- and high-range camera-enabled mobile devices that will produce significantly higher quality photos compared with today’s camera phones and mobile devices.
	www.popphoto.com /photonews/3384/hp-makes-a-call-to-flextronics.html (206 words)

	Flextronics to Acquire LCD Maker IDW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Flextronics CEO Mike McNamara said, "IDW is an important and strategic addition to Flextronics' product offerings and capabilities.
		Flextronics said it will have 8000 employees across six business unit factories and will transition its LCD sourcing to IDW wherever possible.
		The stock exchange ratio will be based on Flextronics' average daily closing share price for the 20 trading days ending on the fifth trading day immediately preceding the closing.
	www.photonics.com /content/news/2006/September/5/84298.aspx (472 words)

	CIOL : News : Flextronics to set up 250 acre mfg plant at Chennai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BANGALORE: Flextronics Technologies, the $16 billion electronic manufacturing services provider, is setting up a manufacturing facility near Chennai on a 250-acre plot.
		Speaking on Flextronics - The Total EMS Solution Provider in India at the Texas Instruments Developer Conference, Joseph Devadass, director, Flextronix India, said that the plant will be operational by June 2006.
		In addition to the facilities in Chennai and Bangalore, Flextronics has a unit in Pondichery, set up on a 40,000 sq.ft plot.
	www.ciol.com /content/news/2005/105113020.asp (388 words)

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