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  Training is our business                                                                            Winter 2000          Volume 2, Number I
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SKC
Operating in the international arena.

Amazon.com
E-commerce: the wave of the future.

Solectron
Electronics-technology leader opens high-tech facility.

Honda
An expansion in Bremen.

Geico
Investing in Macon's future through a winner.

Viracon
Attention for South Georgia around the world.

Project Update
Georgia communities benefit from new business efforts.

Operating Results
Selected Quick Start Operating Results — FY99


    Electronics Giant Salutes Quick Start’s Efforts
 
 Banner from Solectron Open House Quick Start recently helped celebrate the grand opening of a 370,000 square-foot facility in Suwanee for Solectron Corporation, a global leader in electronics manufacturing services. In recognition of Quick Start’s assistance with the plant’s set-up, Solectron presented Kenneth Breeden, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education, with a special award in recognition of DTAE’s support.

Solectron is the world’s premier supply-chain facilitator for customized electronics technology. It manufactures service solutions such as mobile phones, pagers, modems and fax machines. The company’s new Suwanee facility is a 50-acre campus with 11 surface-mount technology lines and 1,500 trained associates. Georgia’s Quick Start program has assisted the company in training employees for the new site.

Photo of Fred Forsyth, Dr. Kenneth Breeden, and Bob Hawkins.

Approximately 1,500 hours of classroom training in team skills, one-to-one communications, work ethics, soldering and safety went into training the first phase of new hires. An additional 500 employees will be trained in similar skills for this project by the end of 2000.

Solectron is a two-time winner of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, the first company in the award’s 12-year history with such a distinction.  QS


Visit Solectron on the World Wide Web at  www.solectron.com

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