The leading electronics manufacturing company, Jabil Circuit employs almost 9,000 people in Hungary, the main parts of your Blackberry probably was made here. This blog post provides an insight into the company's operation in Hungary.
Jabil Tiszaújváros
Jabil Tiszaujvaros
Jabil Hungary, with 1 billion € turnover, is a top100 company in the country. Its Tiszaujvaros plant (Eastern Hungary) is one of the largest manufacturing facility of the company in Europe. Almost 8,000 people work for Jabil in the little town, which has a population about 16,000 - Jabil recruits workers in 50 kms radius. The small, but highly industrialized Tiszaujvaros also has some large chemical companies, e.g: TVK, the leading plastic raw material producer in Eastern Europe. Jabil obviously calculates on the Tiszaujvaros plant in the future: there are permanent developments also in the crisis, in 2011 almost 700 new jobs were created in the facility.
In 2011, the company rented a new logistics center in the neighbouring Polgar Industrial Park, which provides logistic support for Tiszaujvaros and the Ukrainian production facilities.
Jabil Szombathely
Jabil Szombathely
The company Szombathely facility provides aftermarket services for leading electronics brands (we don't know the clients list, Jabil manages it very confidentially). Szombathely is a little town in Western Hungary (it could be known from James Joyce' Ulysses). The Jabil employs here 1000+ staff. The facility were opened in 2003, and at the beginning of the crisis there were some press news about the shutdown of the Szombathely plant, and relocation of aftermarket services to Tiszaujvaros. Finally, the Szombathely plant escaped, and in 2012 newer jobs were created during the consolidation of Szombathely activities.
Finally, let's see a short overview about the company 2013 plans:
