Key iPhone Supplier Foxconn Cuts Record Deal To Manufacture Electronics In India, Likely To Create 100K Jobs

Author: Anusuya Lahiri | March 02, 2023 02:49pm

• Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (OTC:HNHPF) Foxconn Technology Co Ltd reached a deal to invest in India's southern Telangana state to manufacture electronics.
• The financial terms of the deal remained undisclosed.
• The deal follows a meeting between Foxconn Chair Young Liu and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. Liu, who is on a tour of India, also met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this week.
• The Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) supplier's investment is reportedly the largest in India's electronics sector and will create 100,000 jobs.
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• Foxconn eyed diversifying beyond China, where a Covid-19 resurgence disrupted its most giant iPhone plant. 
• Foxconn is also rapidly diversifying into higher-margin products like electric vehicles and their components.
• Modi's flagship local manufacturing drive and financial incentives have led Apple suppliers Foxconn, Wistron Corp (OTC: WICOF), and Pegatron Corp (OTC: PGTRF) to ramp up in the country. 
• Price Action: AAPL shares traded higher by 0.27% at $144.92 on the last check Thursday.

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