Over the past decade, Apple's market value has increased by about $2.7 trillion, of which $2 trillion has grown in market value, and Apple has spent less than three and a half years. On August 2, 2018, Apple's intraday market value reached $1 trillion, and on January 4, 2022, Apple's market value exceeded $3 trillion in one fell swoop.
Apple has set records again and again. It is worth noting that behind Apple's series of achievements, the power of Chinese suppliers cannot be ignored. Among them, there are three women who are very critical to the apple; and these three women also make a lot of money from the apple.
The first: Wang Laichun, founder of Luxshare
Wang Laichun, whose ancestral home is Chenghai, Guangdong, is the founder of the well-known foundry giant Luxshare Precision. Luxshare Precision is a national high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development, production and sales of connectors, and its products are mainly used in 3C (computer, communication, consumer electronics), automotive and communications fields.
At first, Luxshare Precision was only a "small Foxconn" that relied on Foxconn to survive, but under the leadership of Wang Laichun, Luxshare Precision grew rapidly and became a long-term partner of Apple through scientific and technological innovation.
Since 2015, as its largest customer, Apple's share of revenue has continued to increase, reaching 44.85% in the middle of 2018 and 55.43% in the 2019 annual report. According to The 2020 financial report of Luxun Precision, the sales performance of apple, the company's first major customer, reached 63.843 billion yuan, accounting for 69.02% of its total sales.
Second place: Lens Technology Zhou Qunfei
Zhou Qunfei, born in 1970 in Xiangxiang, Hunan, is a permanent resident of Hong Kong, China. Founder of Lens Technology, currently the chairman of Lens Technology Co., Ltd.
Lens Technology is a window glass manufacturer, mainly producing mobile phones, watches, MP3, MP4, digital cameras, electrical appliances, instrument panels, decorations and other high-quality glass lenses and PMMA lenses.
Lens Technology has been supplying Apple since the first generation of iPhones, and Apple has always been the largest customer of Lens Technology.
In 2014, Lens Technology's sales revenue to Apple was 6.88 billion yuan, accounting for 47.44% of revenue; as of 2020, more than 40% of its revenue also depended on Apple, and in addition, mobile phone giants such as Samsung, Huawei, OPPO, vivo, and Xiaomi were also important customers of Lens Technology.
Third place: Zeng Fangqin of Lingyi Manufacturing
Zeng Fangqin is the founder of Lingyi Manufacturing, a company whose main business is the production and sales of new electronic components, mobile phones and computer accessories.
In 2020, Lingyi Zhizhao achieved operating income of 28.143 billion yuan, an increase of 17.67% year-on-year; and achieved a net profit attributable to the mother of 2.266 billion yuan. In fact, Lingyi Zhizhuo has always been one of the leading companies in Apple's supply chain.
According to not long ago, Apple released the 2021 "Supplier Responsibility Progress Report", and at the same time disclosed the list of major suppliers in 2020, and Lingyi Manufacturing was in the list, and changed its name to Lingyi Technology.
Wang Laichun, Zhou Qunfei and Zeng Fangqin, three female entrepreneurs, are undoubtedly the three most important Chinese women behind Apple. But on the other hand, it is also Apple that has made them brilliant today.
Source: Securities Daily, Long Man Apprentice, Digital Leprechaun, etc