Pegatron
| Pegatron Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | TW0004938006 |
| founding | 2007 |
| Seat |
Taipei , Taiwan
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| management | TH Tung ( Chairman ) Jason Cheng ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 177,950 |
| sales | 1.34 trillion NT $ (approx. 35 billion euros ) (2018) |
| Branch | electronics |
| Website | www.pegatroncorp.com |
The Pegatron Corporation ( 和 碩 聯合 科技 股份有限公司 / 和 硕 联合 科技 股份有限公司 , Hé Shuò Liánhé Kējì Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī ) is a Taiwanese contract manufacturer of electronics , which mainly produces IT , communication and entertainment electronics for brand providers .
history
The Pegatron Corporation was born on 2 June 2007 at Beitou District in Taipei , Taiwan, as a subsidiary of ASUSTeK Computer Inc. founded. The company name, like the name Asus, is derived from the winged horse Pegasus . In January 2008, Pegatron took over the Unihan Corporation from Asus as part of a corporate restructuring , which has since been a subsidiary of Pegatron. Unihan was incorporated in 2013.
The company went public for the first time in June 2010 and took over ASRock Inc. from Asus in the same year . Asus' stake in Pegatron is now (as of 2015) 17.23%.
Corporate structure
The Pegatron Corporation is divided into three corporate divisions. In the IT equipment sector , the company manufactures notebooks, desktop computers and motherboards. In the field of entertainment electronics, tablet computers , game consoles, LCD televisions and multimedia players, and in the field of communication devices, smartphones, as well as broadband and network devices.
Most of the company's administration and production is located in Taiwan, but the company also has production sites in China, the Czech Republic, the USA, Mexico and Japan.
Major customers
Currently u. a. The following companies are major customers of Pegatron:
- Acer (Taiwan)
- Apple (USA)
- Asus (Taiwan)
- Dell (USA)
- Fujitsu (Japan)
- Hewlett-Packard (USA)
- Intel (USA)
- Lenovo (China)
- Microsoft (USA)
- Nokia (Finland)
- Panasonic (Japan)
- Sony (Japan)
- Toshiba (Japan)
The country with the company's headquarters is in brackets.
Key figures
| year | Sales (in TWD million ) | Change in sales | Profit (in TWD million ) | Change in profit |
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| 2008 | 513.294 | - | - | - |
| 2009 | 538.081 | 4.83% | - | - |
| 2010 | 530,531 | 1.40% | - | - |
| 2011 | 599,942 | 13.08% | 3,305 | - |
| 2012 | 881.895 | 47.00% | 6,383 | 93.13% |
| 2013 | 949.752 | 7.69% | 9,554 | 49.68% |
| 2014 | 1,019,738 | 7.37% | 14,658 | 53.42% |
| 2015 | 1,213,713 | 19.02% | 23,812 | 62.45% |
| Data per IFRS ; Source: finance.yahoo.com | ||||
criticism
In July 2013, members of the China Labor Watch exposed serious labor law violations at Pegatron. Undercover investigations in three factories that manufacture electronics for Apple found that workers had to work 66 to 69 hours a week and were not paid for overtime. In addition, the company uses minors on the production lines and is responsible for a large part of the pollution in China. After interviews with more than 200 Pegatron employees, the chairman of China Labor Watch said that the conditions in the factories were even worse than at Foxconn , another contract manufacturer for Apple, which had previously come under fire several times for poor working conditions.
In December 2014, a BBC documentary revealed poor working conditions and the mistreatment of employees in a Pegatron factory in Shanghai . In the factory that produced the iPhone 6 for Apple at the time , it was recorded that employees were sometimes forced to work 18 days at a time and in shifts of up to 16 hours. In addition, unsatisfactory conditions in the residential complex on the company premises were discovered, where twelve workers had to share a small room.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual Report 2014 ( Memento of the original dated September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Pegatron Corp, 4938: TAI profile - FT.com. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Pegatron balance sheet / income statement. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.corpasia.net/taiwan/4938/annual/2015/EN/2015_Annual_Report_eng_QfJntPJAyb3c.pdf Annual Report 2015 (Annual Report 2015, English, PDF)
- ↑ Listing Particulars ( English ) Archived from the original on June 1, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lousy working conditions in China: Apple suppliers under fire . n-tv.de, July 29, 2013, accessed on September 18, 2015.
- ↑ Nina Trentmann: Apple supplier slaves to exhaustion . welt.de, December 19, 2014, accessed on September 18, 2015.
