July 9, 2013
Plexus and GE Healthcare Celebrate 30 Year Partnership
NEENAH, WI, July 9, 2013 - Plexus Corp. (NASDAQ: PLXS) and GE Healthcare recognized a significant achievement, celebrating their strategic, 30-year-partnership. Their collaboration generates economic activity across Wisconsin and other communities in which they operate. As GE Healthcare's largest provider of advanced electronics manufacturing and engineering solutions, Plexus supplies high-tech assemblies that power advanced imaging equipment such as magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, X-Ray and ultrasound scanners. A new Plexus facility under construction in Neenah, Wis., will be completed in September, and will provide manufacturing solutions to GE Healthcare.
Todd Kelsey, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, commented, "Plexus is proud of our 30 years as a strategic supplier to GE Healthcare. The longevity of our partnership is a testament of our ability to successfully deliver growth through customer service excellence on complex products like GE Healthcare's advanced imaging equipment. As one of our first, and now, one of our largest customers, we look forward to continuing to support GE Healthcare with our full Product Realization Value Steam solutions as they provide critical medical technologies across the globe."
Ralph Strosin, General Manager GE Healthcare Global Sourcing, commented, "Our relationship with Plexus has provided us with best-in-class quality products while achieving exceptional service. Plexus' industry leading capabilities and solutions have enhanced our ability to deliver world-class products to the healthcare industry, while delivering operational efficiencies and reducing our expenses. We look forward to continuing our partnership with key suppliers like Plexus in Wisconsin."
For Plexus inquiries, please contact:
Susan Hanson, Branding & Market Communications Manager
920-751-5491 or susan.hanson@plexus.com (mailto:susan.hanson@plexus.com)
For GE inquiries, please contact:
Brittany Darga, Communications Specialist
414-721-3945 or Brittany.darga@ge.com (mailto:Brittany.darga@ge.com)
About Plexus Corp. - The Product Realization Company
Plexus (www.plexus.com (http://www.plexus.com/)) delivers optimized Product Realization solutions through a unique Product Realization Value Stream service model. This customer-focused services model seamlessly integrates innovative product conceptualization, design, commercialization, manufacturing, fulfillment and sustaining services to deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions for customers in the America, European and Asia-Pacific regions.
Plexus is the industry leader in servicing mid-to-low volume, higher complexity customer programs characterized by unique flexibility, technology, quality and regulatory requirements. Award-winning customer service is provided to over 140 branded product companies in the Networking/Communications, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Industrial/Commercial and Defense/Security/Aerospace market sectors.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter - great people and technologies taking on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT, patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients.
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