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Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]
- omarforgotpwd 8y agoI bet you could make a decent return building a stock robot that just bought / sold all of these every year based on whether they appear on the list.
- fooker 8y agoThe returns will be more or less correlated to Apple stock, which is easier to get into and have significantly more volume if you want to play with options.
- hrktb 8y agoI'm not sure that small '3M' company is that tightly bound to Apple stock. Joking aside, a lot of the supplier listed her don't seem to be the main branch, but the exact branch supplying Apple. So the company stock should really not be that tied to a specific vendor. In particular considering that if something were to happen to Apple, any other hardware manufacturer could take the opportunity to contract them, making it neutral.
- fooker 8y agoOne small company is not, all 200 taken together, almost surely.
- wkoszek 8y agoAnd short-sell the ones which are likely going to get killed after Apple ASIC team brings their IP into the A-... family of chips.
- reaperducer 8y agobased on whether they appear on the list. It's alphabetical, so no help there.
- CaliforniaKarl 8y agoWow, this is an interesting list! I picked one of the 3M addresses at random (the one in Medina, Ohio), and 3M has a web site listing the categories of stuff produced there: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/plant-locations-us/medina/ https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/plant-locations-us/medina/ (It would be cool if each supplier was required to post this sort of info, to really get a feel for how much physical plant it takes to make/build/assemble certain things.) So I'm guessing that each address on the list is an address that either ships parts to Apple (or to an Apple rep or manufacturer, like Foxconn), or is an address that receives stuff on behalf of Apple (for example, to do assembly). That would also be an awesome visualization: A map showing things moving from supplier to sub-assembler to assembler to distributor to store to customer.
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- jamesfe 8y agoRequired seems strong. Is there a need for that?
- btian 8y agoWhy would it be required? Now you know where to rob labels and adhesives. It would massively increase security cost, and risk of getting contaminated products. That's why most companies keep locations of their data centers top secret.
- fermienrico 8y agoThere is so much information here. It is interesting to see how these suppliers look like something you'd find on Alibaba. Given how massive these companies must be (despite of how they appear to be), I doubt if they'd answer to low volume inquiries. I found the guys that make Apple's USB cables: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (Foxlink) http://www.foxlink.com/web/en/portfolio-item/usb-cable/#1474880269882-4b38d309-c778 http://www.foxlink.com/web/en/portfolio-item/usb-cable/#1474... iPhone boxes!? Brilliant International Group Ltd http://www.brilliant-group.com/products_electronic/ http://www.brilliant-group.com/products_electronic/ Sim card trays: Chengdu Homin Technology Co., Ltd. http://www.cnhomin.com/ http://www.cnhomin.com/ Watch/Camera glass: Biel Crystal Manufactory Ltd http://www.bielcrystal.com/ http://www.bielcrystal.com/ iPhone Haptics/Speakers module: AAC Technologies Holdings Inc. https://www.aactechnologies.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=lists&catid=21 https://www.aactechnologies.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&... Then you come across something truly extraordinary: Catcher http://www.catcher.com.tw/technology.aspx http://www.catcher.com.tw/technology.aspx Catcher has a market cap of 7 Billion USD. They own and operate 18,000 CNC machines, the largest fleet of CNC machines in the world. This is probably where iPhone case and Macbook Unibody is manufactured. Edit: I found a video of Catcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UknhWoL6GWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UknhWoL6GWQ Edit: Tons of information on Catcher
- baybal2 8y agoYes, hard to believe, the guy who was making molds for internal plastic parts up to ifone 4 had a shop in garage few kilometres away from my workplace in downtown Shenzhen. It is 2018 now, and Shanzhai garage factories are no more. >Then you come across something truly extraordinary with virtually zero information on the internet besides their website: Catcher :) Were you living under a rock?
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- fireattack 8y ago>virtually zero information Considering it's a Taiwanese company, you probably should search in Chinese. They even have a Wikipedia article: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%AF%E6%88%90%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%AF%E6%88%90%E7%A7%91%E6... Also, this is a public company (TWSE: 2474), it's far from "virtually zero information" even in English.
- markovbot 8y agoWhy did they post this? Is there any larger context to this list? Is this a routine thing? Do other companies post this? I've never seen something like this published, although I haven't really gone looking...
- fermienrico 8y agoRefer to: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/ https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/ They are publishing their audit results and environmental impact assessment which is where I found the supplier list. I am actually really impressed with their GSM team - they've done a really thorough job. I am not sure if others - Microsoft, Samsung, Google, etc are doing the same or publishing their results. Kudos to Apple, seriously amazing.
- wickedwiesel 8y agoFor this kind of information you can look at rankabrand.com > 9. Does the brand (company) have a published list of direct suppliers that have collectively contributed to more than 90% of the purchase volume? Microsoft, "Microsoft provides a list of its top 100 supply chain partners.", [2] Samsung, "Samsung does not provide a list of direct suppliers" HP, "HP publishes a list of suppliers that represents over 95% of its production supplier spend.", [3], HP even discloses what type of product they procure and how many workers work on HP manufacturing lines [1] - https://rankabrand.org/electronics/Apple#detailed-report https://rankabrand.org/electronics/Apple#detailed-report] [2] - http://bit.ly/1EWC6XW http://bit.ly/1EWC6XW] [3] - http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c03728062 http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c03728... edit: formatting
- wickedwiesel 8y agoSupply Chain Transparency is an important topic in many companies' sustainability and business & human rights efforts. For example, the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business & Human Rights and some related legislation like the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, or the UK Modern Slavery Act require larger companies to disclose how they prevent/deal with Forced Labor in the Supply Chain. Transparency about your supply chain is generally considered best practice. There are many other examples of proactive companies, like Marks & Spencers interactive world map of suppliers [1], Adidas Global Factory List (xlsx) [2], Unilever's list of palm oil suppliers [3], ... [1] - https://interactivemap.marksandspencer.com/ https://interactivemap.marksandspencer.com/ [2] - https://www.adidas-group.com/en/sustainability/compliance/supply-chain-structure/ https://www.adidas-group.com/en/sustainability/compliance/su... [3] - https://www.unilever.com/Images/unilever-palm-oil-supplier-list_tcm244-515896_en.pdf https://www.unilever.com/Images/unilever-palm-oil-supplier-l...
- reaperducer 8y agoI wish there was a spreadsheet version of this.
- killjoywashere 8y agoIf there's value in it, and there is, I garuntee there are a dozen people who have, as of the writing of this comment, already produced such spreadsheets. Perhaps what you want is for one of those to be publicly acessible?
- gpmcadam 8y agoWasn't that implied?
- killjoywashere 8y agoOf course, but if it was public, that would decrease the value of any individual's pain-stakingly produced copy. Maybe try open-sourcing it on a Google Sheet?
- namuol 8y agoCoincidence? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199708
- ry4n413 8y agoif you have office 2016, open it in Word and copy/paste into excel.
- choonway 8y agoI am just wondering about the countries which are NOT on that list.
- mtmail 8y agoWhat are you implying? Spain and Sweden is not on the list for example.
- jchb 8y agoYes, the list doesn't tell the full story, because it only lists suppliers of "materials, manufacturing, and assembly". That is it doesn't include, for example, software suppliers and patent licenses. Ericsson, which is a multinational with headquarters in Sweden, has a network technologies patent license deal with Apple.
- InitialLastName 8y agoI'll bet that's related to the stuff they get from ST Micro (which used to be part of Ericsson)
- trengrj 8y agoIs it telling that supermicro is not on this list?
- fermienrico 8y agoThey stopped doing business with them in 2015. This report is for 2017.
- azinman2 8y agoThis is for the products sold, not data centers.
- ttflee 8y agoA quick count of occurrences of region names (might not be exhaustive): China 358 Japan 137 USA 66 Taiwan 54 Korea 35 Vietnam 22 Philippines 17 Malaysia 17 Thailand 16 Singapore 14 Germany 11 Indonesia 6 India 6 Brazil 5 Czech 3 Israel 3 Mexico 3 France 3 Austria 3 Belgium 3 Netherlands 3 UK 2 Italy 1 Ireland 1 Norway 1 Costa Rica 1
- ttflee 8y agoBreaking China down to provinces (I cannot find which are the ones I missed, about 10 of them total): Guangdong 110 (Shenzhen 41; Dongguan 36; Guangzhou 9; Huizhou 9; Zhuhai 6; Zhongshan 4) Jiangsu 110 Shanghai 36 Sichuan 14 Henan 12 Shandong 10 Tianjin 8 Zhejiang 8 Fujian 6 Chongqing 5 Jiangxi 4 Hunan 4 Hebei 3 Guangxi 3 Liaoning 3 Shaanxi 3 (not to be mistaken as Shanxi) Beijing 2 Anhui 2 Shanxi 2
- ElBarto 8y agoIf you break China down to provinces then you must include Taiwan to the list ;)
- currycurry16 8y agoI made a map: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0N2SZ/1/ https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0N2SZ/1/
- ttflee 8y agoMost of the China based suppliers are located to the east of Heihe-tengchong line[1], i.e. the east half of China. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe–Tengchong_Line https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe–Tengchong_Line
- avar 8y agoAs the Wikipedia article you linked to points out 96% of China's population lives east of that line, it would be really odd if most of Apple's suppliers weren't also east of the line.
- avar 8y agoIt would be great if someone copied all of these into a custom map on Google Maps so it could be browsed interactively.
- ssobczak 8y agoI made the map here: https://ssobczak.github.io/apple_suppliers/analyze_suppliers.html https://ssobczak.github.io/apple_suppliers/analyze_suppliers... Repository with extraction code and a CSV with all the suppliers geolocated is here: https://github.com/ssobczak/apple_suppliers https://github.com/ssobczak/apple_suppliers
- kulu2002 8y agoThanks! Interesting share. So many Chinese suppliers
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- graycrow 8y agoInteresting, they listed BYD Co., Ltd. there. BYD is one of the largest Chinese automobile manufacturer. It must be somehow related to the Apple car or development of self-driving software.
- rmoriz 8y agoNo. BYD is neither one of the largest car makers of China nor does this imply cars at all. If you buy an electric toothbrush at German drug store „dm“ for €20 and rip it apart, you‘ll find a BYD li-ion battery. https://imgur.com/gallery/kp6eULc https://imgur.com/gallery/kp6eULc BYD batteries are everywhere.
- dmix 8y ago> BYD is neither one of the largest car makers of China Off-topic note: BYD used to be the largest Chinese passenger car maker in 2008-2013 but has declined significantly in recent years compared to competition. It's still #1 for EV car sales global though (Chinese bought 4x more EVs than US). [1] http://carsalesbase.com/china-car-sales-data/byd/ http://carsalesbase.com/china-car-sales-data/byd/
- showjackyang 8y agoInterestingly, a lot of companies listed in China are actually Taiwanese companies having their manufacture processes in China. If certain company have locations in both countries, I think it's very likely a Taiwanese company.
- mschuster91 8y agoHow does this work anyway? China doesn't recognize Taiwan as independent state and breaks up diplomatic ties with those states that do.
- ElBarto 8y agoLikewise Taiwan formally does not recognise the People's Republic. Both sides see themselves as the rightful Chinese government (especially [only?] when the Kuomintang is in power in Taipei). What happens is both sides have special procedures to deal with each others which allow to control and enable travel and trade without recognising the other side's claims while recognising people as Chinese, not foreigners.
- dbllxr 8y ago> Both sides see themselves as the rightful Chinese government Tricky subject here. The statement might sound true but has very very different sentiments on both sides. For the Chinese gov., Taiwan is a province of China, "the rightful Chinese government" extends its jurisdiction over all Chinese territories, including Taiwan. However, from Taiwan's perspective, Taiwan and mainland China have two different governments (the stress is on "Taiwan is not part of China", not there is only one rightful Chinese gov,). In fact, if you ask anyone in Taiwan today, they are more likely to refer to the island as Taiwan (instead of "Republic of China") and themselves Taiwanese.
- ElBarto 8y agoThe formal position is the same on both sides. When dealing with legal matters (like travelling or trading) this is what counts.
- nahalz 8y agoI googled one of the names at random and I'm having a blast. http://www.npcusa.com/ http://www.npcusa.com/ Just look at this website. http://www.npcusa.com/assets/combined2012a.pdf http://www.npcusa.com/assets/combined2012a.pdf Laughing out loud at the fat guy using the computer, and then the guy with the mullet.
- fireattack 8y agoDefinitely "leading their way" using that computer..
- yc-kraln 8y agoThis looks like every Chinese factory website I've ever seen... did not expect it to be based in Texas!
- imhoguy 8y agoIf they deliver why anyone should care about PR/marketing? There are thousands of such unknown companies making huge buck.
- nahalz 8y agoI think the jokish tone was evident, but since it's not, let me help you: /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s
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- fipple 8y agoWhy did Apple share this? Is it a legal requirement?
- saagarjha 8y agoFor backing up their supplier responsibility claims, I'd imagine.
- k5hp 8y agoWas it only in reaction to recent criticism or does Apple release their supplier list yearly?
- nneonneo 8y agoIt looks like they've been doing it since at least 2012: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/technology/apple-releases-list-of-its-suppliers-for-the-first-time.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/technology/apple-releases...
- simonveith123 8y agoGeht money http://go.simonv.44409.digistore24.com/ http://go.simonv.44409.digistore24.com/
- tw1010 8y agoFeels like Apple are really are taking the "You never let a serious crisis go to waste" quote to heart.
- kazirehman 8y agoAn interesting and useful list of Apple suppliers. I searched many online stores and even this list of Apple suppliers but I also found some online deals and freebie like https://blastmydeals.com/ https://blastmydeals.com/ .
- gpmcadam 8y agoIs this a list of suppliers of hardware only? As in, it doesn't seem to contain things like marketing companies or software contractor suppliers?
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- simplegeek 8y agoDo you know how to find such lists for Microsoft, Amazon or Google? I tried finding one for Google but quick Google search didn't find anything.
- uptown 8y agoIf you happen to have access to a Bloomberg terminal, the SPLC command gives you similar (though less comprehensive) info for whatever company you’re looking at.
- nodesocket 8y agoWho is the supplier of OLED screens?
- theodorton 8y agoSamsung
- nodesocket 8y agoInteresting, I thought it was Universal Display Corp ($OLED).
- jmiller099 8y agoudc supplies to samsung display (and others)
- fermienrico 8y agoUDG sells IP.
- jmiller099 8y agoudc also supplies phosphorescent emitter materials manufactured by ppg.
- fermienrico 8y agoI thought Apple had an unmarked building at LG for their OLED technology development.
- yohann305 8y agoanyone here good with the stock market and would know how to leverage this list?
- giarc 8y agoThis info is already known, and therefore already priced into those companies stock price.
- jjeaff 8y agoIt would be interesting to see Apple take a page from Walmart and require all their large suppliers to have an office near their headquarters. Walmart revenues are around double that of apple, but they likely have a lot more suppliers and much lower spend per supplier than apple.
- mark_element 8y agoOne small error on the list: The Chemours Company 7685 Kiln-DeLisle Road, Pass Christian, Massachusetts, USA That should actually be Mississippi not Massachusetts. It is probably the source for the white pigment used in many Apple products as it is one of the largest TiO2 plants in the world.
- Preshy 8y agocheck out why people go crazy about iPhone https://momsall.com/why-people-are-crazy-about-iphone-x-specifications-of-iphone-x/ https://momsall.com/why-people-are-crazy-about-iphone-x-spec...
- PascLeRasc 8y agoI'm surprised Gigabyte isn't on this list. From Hackintosh forums it seems like a lot of their motherboards are Gigabyte-made, or for some reason are incredibly similar to Gigabyte boards.
- 95014_refugee 8y agoDefinitely not. Any similarities are more likely to be a consequence of the limited options you have designing an Intel-based system in the first place.
- ssobczak 8y agoI made an interactive map with all the suppliers here: https://ssobczak.github.io/apple_suppliers/analyze_suppliers.html https://ssobczak.github.io/apple_suppliers/analyze_suppliers... Repository with the code and a CSV containing all the suppliers geolocated is here: https://github.com/ssobczak/apple_suppliers https://github.com/ssobczak/apple_suppliers
- londons_explore 8y agoThey don't license anything from synaptics? Sounds unlikely...