Worlds Largest Computer Components Manufacturer See 41 Rise in Profit

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World's Largest Computer Components Manufacturer Sees 41% Rise in Profit

Aug. 13, 2013

Hon Hai, parent company of Foxconn, employs one million workers in China.

TAIPEI -- Taiwan's tech giant Hon Hai Precision (IW 1000/24), a major supplier to Apple, said Tuesday that its net profit in the three months to June rose 41% year-on-year.

Net profit in the second quarter was Tw$16.9 billion (US$565 million), up from Tw$12.0 billion a year earlier, Hon Hai, the parent company of Foxconn (IW 1000/712) in China

Sales edged up 0.41% to Tw$895.6 billion.

Hon Hai is the world's largest computer components manufacturer and assembles products for Apple -- including the iPhone -- as well as Sony and Nokia.

It employs about one million workers in China, roughly half of them based at its main facility in the southern city of Shenzhen.

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