FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO-Security guards stand at the BYD booth at the Auto Shanghai show, in Shanghai, China April 19, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song/file photo/File Photo
BEIJING: The electronics arm of electric-vehicle (EV) maker BYD Co agreed to buy Jabil Inc’s manufacturing business in China for 15.8 billion yuan (US$2.2bil), expanding its reach in mobile devices.
BYD Electronic International Co, a non-wholly owned unit of China’s BYD, is taking over the US company’s product manufacturing business located in Chengdu and Wuxi, China, it said in a statement yesterday.
The pact includes the manufacturing of products for existing customers.
The deal accelerates BYD’s expansion into mobile electronics making.
The EV giant’s electronics arm makes a wide variety of products from smartphone cases to wireless modules used in cars, and it operates plants in China and Vietnam that make components for Apple Inc.
Jabil has been one of the largest contractor makers in China, hiring tens of thousands of workers in Sichuan, Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces to make and assemble parts for Apple.
The company said in a separate statement the sale will allow it to “enhance our shareholder-centric capital framework, including incremental share buybacks.” — Bloomberg
