10 posts and columns on Terry Gou

Foxconn Chief Says Apple Will Share Cost of Improving Factory Conditions

in News on May 10 at 9:45 am PT

Another step forward in Apple’s effort to improve working conditions at factories in which devices like the iPhone and iPad are built.
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Terry Gou on the Taipei Zoo

Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide, and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

– Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou, who went on to say that he wants to learn from the director of Taipei Zoo regarding how animals should be managed

Foxconn’s Terry Gou: “The Robots Are Coming”

in News on July 31, 2011 at 10:35 am PT

The head of Foxconn says he plans to beef up the number of manufacturing robots on the production lines, from 10,000 now to one million within three years. That can’t help but have unexpected effects.
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Big Pain, No Gain: Hon Hai’s Challenging Apple Deal

in News on June 8, 2011 at 12:28 pm PT

How is it that Apple enjoys such financial success from the iPad, yet Hon Hai — which manufactures the device — enjoys so little? iPads are really hard to make.
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Hon Hai Downplays Wage Increases

in News on June 8, 2010 at 3:45 pm PT

Amid rising concerns about profitability and a tumbling stock price, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Chairman Terry Gou downplayed Tuesday the impact of recent wage increases and said it is accelerating automation to reduce its reliance on labor.

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Hon Hai Considers Raises

in News on May 27, 2010 at 5:30 pm PT

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. is weighing the possibility of increasing wages for its factory workers in China but the manufacturing giant said the potential raise isn’t related to a recent spate of employee suicides. A Hon Hai spokesman said the wage change discussion, which predates a wave of suicides at its giant Longhau factory in Shenzhen, flowed from concerns about a tight supply of workers in the southern industrial city where Hon Hai employs more than 400,000 staffers. “It is not related to the suicides,” he said.