CLIENTS IN CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

MULTI-FINELINE ELECTRONIX, INC. (NASDAQ (GS): MFLX)
3140 E. Coronado St., Ste. A
Anaheim, CA 92806
http://www.mflex.com

Multi-Fineline Electronix offers a multitude of fine electronic parts. The company, which does business as MFLEX, makes a wide variety of flexible printed circuit boards and circuit assemblies. These devices are used to connect other components in various kinds of electronics, such as  smart phones,  tablets , ultrabooks & laptop computers.   Directly and through subcontractors, three major accounts in smart phone & tablet markets account for  95% of the company's sales. MFLEX gets about 70% of sales from outside North America, with most of that coming from China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore.  MFLEX's business strategy involves functioning as a fully integrated, end-to-end contract manufacturer, providing design and application engineering, prototyping, high-volume manufacturing, materials acquisition, turnkey component assembly, and testing.  (Manufacturers representative since 1991)

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BALDA AG (GERMAN: BAD)
Bergkirchener Str. 228D-32549
Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
http://www.balda.de/

Balda AG develops and manufactures plastic components and systems for mobile devices and electronic products for communications and entertainment sectors.  It develops and manufactures a range of electronic products, including peripheral devices for mobile phones, E -Readers and mp3 players, which include head phones and ear phones; hands-free speaking systems for automobiles; and portable speakers. In addition, the company manufactures products on customer order, such as semi-complete digital cameras and devices, as well as offers touch screen tablets and RF transceiver modules.  Balda customers include leading cellular phone manufacturers such as Motorola, Nokia, and Sony Ericsson and digital camera companies Canon and Olympus.

MAXELL (Division of Hitachi)
3 Garret Mountain Plaza, 3rd Floor, Suite #300,
Woodland Park, NJ 07424, USA
http://www.maxell.com

World’s largest manufacturer of lithium thionyl chloride (A, AA 2/3A 1/2 A 3.6v) and manganese dioxide coin cells, rechargeable coin cells and Li-ion prismatic cells.  Major applications are memory back up for semiconductors, power for AMR (automatic meter reading), smart phone, sensors, medical electronics and GPS.  

SALCOMP
Salo, Finland
www.salcomp.com

A spin-off from Nokia that has extended its customer base to all major mobile phone manufacturers resulting in sales volume of over 1 million chargers a day.  Salcomp develops and manufactures chargers for mobile phone, tablets, ultrabooks,  pc’s and other electronic devices. Salcomp is the market leader in mobile phone chargers, and the main customers include OEM ’s mobile phone manufacturers.

Salcomp's production plants are located in Shenzhen in China, in Manaus in Brazil and in Chennai in India. In addition to these locations, Salcomp has operations in Salo in Finland, in Leesburg and Chicago in the USA, in São Paolo in Brazil and in Taipei in Taiwan, as well as in Tokyo in Japan.  Salcomp has some 10,350 employees.  Salcomp Plc’s shares are quoted on the Main list of the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.