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A self-made, septuagenarian billionaire with a net worth of $6.8 billion, the 72-year-old Gou founded Foxconn, established as Hon Hai Precision Industry in Taiwan in 1974.
Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, withdrew from the race to become Taiwan’s next president on Friday, just hours before the deadline to formally register as a ...
Terry Gou (Chinese: 郭台銘; pinyin: Guō Táimíng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koeh Tâi-bêng; born 18 October 1950) is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and politician. Gou is the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics. [1]
TAIPEI/SHENZHEN, China, June 6 (Reuters) - Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that rose to global prominence as the manufacturer of the Apple iPhone, is trying to reinvent itself as ...
In 2009 Sun Danyong, an employee of electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group, committed suicide. [7] Reports emerged of questionable labour practices at Foxconn factories, [8] and a number of other suicides occurred in 2010. Foxconn announced that workers with a monthly wage of 900 RMB ($131.77 at the time) would immediately receive a ...
Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, resigned as a company board member, the Taiwanese company said on Saturday, less than a week after announcing a bid to be the ...
The Fair Labor Association audit in 2012 used interviews with 35,000 Foxconn employees. [142] In January 2012, about 150 Foxconn employees threatened to commit a mass suicide in protest of their working conditions. [147] One worker said the protest resulted from 600 workers being moved into a new "unbearable" factory location. [148]
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of tech giant Foxconn, on Friday withdrew from the race to be Taiwan's next president, bringing a sense of relief to the major Apple supplier ...