As Apple spreads its branches, 45 companies now plugged into Indian supply chain

Apple has sharply expanded its supply chain in India to nearly 45 companies, including local component makers and those who make up the subassembly ecosystem, according to officials familiar with the matter. These component suppliers have so far created about 350,000 jobs, including 120,000 direct jobs, they said.

To be sure, the jobs created by the component suppliers are in addition to the hundreds of thousands of jobs generated by the five iPhone factories of Apple vendors located in the country, the world’s second largest smartphone market.