Offering more services in more locations has enabled Jabil to capitalize on one of its core foundations: building strong relationships with industry-leading electronic product companies. As we have expanded our services to meet the demands of new technologies and a global economy, we have also broadened our customer relationships by providing more and more of those services over the entire product life cycle. For Jabil, that means deeply entrenched customer relationships across the entire supply chain and, ultimately, continued growth.

Six years ago Jabil’s relationship with one of its major customers was limited to the manufacturing of sub-assemblies for just a few products. Jabil invested in this partnership, creating the services and acquiring the expertise necessary for both companies to stay competitive. By developing our global systems, especially in information technology (IT), materials management expertise and global design capabilities, Jabil has broken into new business areas and found incremental growth. Today, this customer partnership spans the entire supply chain. Our design centers provide full product design while Jabil’s global network of manufacturing operations satisfies cost, speed and market demands. The partnership now encompasses all of our service areas in all of the geographies we serve, generating significant revenue growth.

One of the easiest and safest ways to grow revenue is to keep existing customers happy. We continue to grow and bolster our service offerings to do just that. Expanding our services to benefit our current and future customer relationships affords us the opportunity to grow and broaden beyond the natural growth rate of any particular industry or any particular customer.