Apple for the first time announced a list of global suppliers

Apple to reflect the emphasis on environmental issues, driven by multiple forces, recently, Apple Corp announced the 2012 annual supplier responsibility progress report "the 27 page, revealed for the first time is listed as" confidential "state of the global supplier list, and promised to investigate illegal employment practices. The report disclosed for the first time the list of suppliers iPhone and iPad products, a total of 156, including the Taiwan area panel, battery, passive components, chassis and system assembly supplier of approximately 39, including system assembled Foxconn, Pegatron, quanta and Inventec and pihsiang machinery; power supply supplier Acbel and delta power battery; supplier, Shunda new general and new energy; passive components including Darfon and peripheral components including Guoju; USI, Shunde industry, crystal technology; touch panel including TPK and TPK, Shenghua, CMO, AUO, Suzhou good value of electricity; housing including and riteng jialianyi, including PCB; Huatong, Taiwan County, South Asia circuit board, tripod, Xinxing Electronic; LED including printing and packaging, including CLS Lite; Zhenglong paper, beauty and Taiyi precision. In addition to low profit enterprises engaged in OEM business, international leading industry segments enterprises also have the list, including TI, Emerson, Qualcomm, Intel, LG and Samsung Korean enterprises under the three companies, SANYO, Matsushita, SHARP and Toshiba's two companies were included in the list. The list of suppliers can not be recognized by environmental groups. Ma Jun, director of the public environmental research center, the list is only the name of the company, and the factory can not do one-to-one correspondence. In the previous report released by the environmental protection organizations, environmental issues are pointing to the specific plant. Although the apple report referred to for the first time, requiring its representatives on behalf of 90% final assembly capabilities to meet the global reporting initiative GRI (TheGlobalReportingInitiative) requirements. But industry insiders pointed out that the "joint responsibility of environmental protection, apple supplier production safety, staff salaries and benefits and other aspects, at the same time as the world's most famous enterprises, corporate social responsibility and natural concern, suddenly announced the supplier in this case, there seems to be clear and hope bad supplier relational meaning, and then the cooperation pressure to the whole supply chain".