Gadget, phone demand boosts Hon Hai, LarganStaff writer, with CNAHon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), an iPhone assembler, has benefited from solid demand for Apple Inc’s latest smartphones and other gadgets such as high-end servers, reporting a monthly sales increase of more than 4 percent last month. People walk into Hon Hai Precision Industry Co’s headquarters in New Taipei City’s Tucheng District on June 5, 2019. The Zhengzhou plant, Hon Hai’s second-largest factory in China, employs 250,000 people who assemble 500,000 iPhones per day, accounting for about 50 percent of global iPhone production, Chinese media reported. Hon Hai’s consolidated sales in the first seven months of the year totaled NT$3.12 trillion, up 26.69 percent from a year earlier. Largan’s consolidated sales in the first seven months of the year fell 16 percent year-on-year to NT$25.74 billion.

Source: Taipei Times August 08, 2021 15:56 UTC