In the last blog entry, we talked about the clear signals of business recovery in the Mexican Silicon Valley ( Guadalajara). Now we will put numbers to those signals.

In Jalisco, the EMS industry is commonly called “Electronics Industry” regardless of the diversification and it includes all the services provided by the EMS in the state.

NUMBERS

- $300 million is the expectation for investment in 2009
- $274 million in investments was the number in 2008.
- 2k new jobs in the sector is the goal for this year.
- 17,800 billion exportations reported in 2008.
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Mexican Silicon Valley (Guadalajara) is now sending clear signals of business recovery, the top 3 EMS in the area (SSCI, Flex and Jabil) have made announcements of labor growth associated to new projects. The following article contains valuable information and can be considered as a thermometer of the local environment in terms of business and economic activity.

Jabil currently has plants in Reynosa, Chihuahua and Zapopan (photo)

In the middle of economic crisis, Jabil, the electronics firm opened positions for thousand jobs in its plant in Zapopan and announced that prepares an investment of $ 20 million, in addition to the 60 million dollars announced last July for expansion of its facilities.

Thus, the firm that produces the BlackBerry smart phones expects to end 2009 with more than 9 thousand employees at its plant in Zapopan, a 136 percent increase over the 3 thousand 800 workers it had in October last year.

“The latest thousand hires took place in the last two months, they are in addition to what we announced and we are talking about an investment of 20 million dollars,” said in an interview Cesar Castro Rodriguez, manager of Logistics at Jabil.

“We’ve been growing and fortunately we’ve done very well.”

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