NEC Electronics Receives Bosch Supplier Award

NEC Electronics Corporation has been presented the Bosch Supplier Award 2005/2006 in the Electronics category. With this award, Bosch honours the company’s outstanding work in the creation and supply of products and services – especially with respect to reliability, quality and cost competitiveness. The assessment criteria for the award also include communication and cooperation, as well as continuous improvement.

This is now the eleventh time Bosch has conferred its supplier award since 1987. The award is open to suppliers the world over, and is conferred every two years. This year, the award was given in five categories to a total of 47 companies from 14 countries. This is the third time that NEC Electronics Corporation has won the award. The award-winners were honoured at a ceremony in Stuttgart’s Staatsgalerie museum on July 4, 2007.

“NEC Electronics is proud to receive this prestigious award for the third time. This award proves the success of our strategy to develop high quality products for different automotive applications,” stated Toshio Nakajima, president and CEO of NEC Electronics Corporation.

In 2006, the Bosch Group’s total purchasing volume came to approximately 23 billion euros. The share of purchases made outside Germany was more than 50 percent, with the major sourcing markets being the U.S., Eastern Europe, China and Japan. Bosch purchased manufacturing materials such as electronic components, mechanical and electromechanical components, services, merchandise and capital goods.