Cell phones, handsets electronics contract manufacturers

Below are some of the larger companies in industry offering cell phone, handset electronics contract manufacturing outsourcing services.

Celestica
Elcoteq
Flextronics
Jabil Ciruit

With regards to the companies above, Flextronics is currently the largest producer (by volume) of cell phones/handsets in the industry. The company also claims to be the largest manufacturer of cell phone camera modules. Some of the companies Flextronics builds product for include:

Sony-Ericsson
Motorola
Nokia

OEM cell phone/handset manufacturers continue to expand their supply chain into the outsourcing model. Recently, some contract manufacturing companies have cited some profit and revenue concerns as OEMs are shifting their product mix more toward lower-end phones.

With this trend shift, contract manufacturers that are vertically integrated will reap greater benefits than their non-vertically integrated competitors as total outsourced volume increases and the percentage of higher content (i.e., more complex) cell phones decreases.

Increasing business model vertical integration is taking place with Flextronics, Sanmina-SCI, and Jabil.

VentureOutsource.com, October 2006