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At times, OEMs and contract manufacturers appear to be obsessed with China, but Eastern Europe gets stronger by the year and should not be overlooked as a an outsource manufacturing locale.
A recent report from Electronic Business on the growing electronics industry in Romania -- especially analog chip design and contract manufacturing -- got some of us to thinking once again about Eastern Europe as a good place for outsourcing. Worth taking seven minutes to read it.
I asked Charlie Barnhart, the TFI consultant who designs and conducts the Outsourcing Navigator Workshop, what he thinks about Eastern Europe in 2007. "Eastern Europe is much stronger today than in the past -- say five years ago," Charlie tells me.
The last time TFI took a close look at Eastern Europe -- about 18 months ago at our Munich Quarterly Forum -- it was Charlie who presented the research. He continues to pay close attention and he knows what he's talking about.
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