CHINA BUSINESS NETWORK


"Outsourcing Consumer Electronics to China:
Myths, Realities and Lessons Learned."

featuring Owen Jellison
Global Commodity Manager
Logitech, Vancouver, WA.

According to Reed Electronics Group, by the end of 2005, China accounted for 16% of global electronics output, up from 6% in 2000 and under 3% in 1995. In the period from 1995 to 2005, electronics output in China rose from $28 billion to $210 billion. By contrast, electronics output in the United States reached $342 billion in 2005, up from $285 billion 10 years earlier.

Logitech, a Vancouver, WA supplier of consumer electronics, was one of the ground breakers of outsourcing consumer electronics products to China back in the 1980s with the opening of its first factory in Suzhou. Logitech currently has factories in Shenzhen, Dongguan in Southern China that employ over 5,000 employees and also in Hsin Chu, Taiwan. Logitech designs, manufactures and markets personal peripherals that combine essential core technologies, continuing innovation, award-winning industrial design and excellent price performance.

Owen N. Jellison, Global Commodity Manager for Logitech, Vancouver, WA, has over 29 years experience in the electronics industry, holding key senior level positions in Operations & Manufacturing, Product Marketing, e-Commerce Regional Management, and Commodity/Materials Management at Spectra-Physics/PSC Inc., Future Electronics, MEC Northwest, and Arrow Electronics CAS.

WHEN	Wednesday, Dec. 6, 12 noon
WHERE	House of Louie Restaurant 331 NW Davis, Chinatown
COST	Lunch & Talk: $20 members; $30 general; $15 for students with ID. Add $5 to above for walk-in registration.
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