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Sanmina was founded by Jure Sola and Milan Mandarić in 1980 as a manufacturer of printed circuit boards. It later expanded into manufacturing backplanes and backplane subassemblies. By 1989 the company's revenue had grown to around $60 million and it was focused on providing electronics manufacturing services for several customers in the telecommunications industry. That year, Sola led a management buy-out of his co-founder's share in the company with investment from Morgan Stanley and became its president. In 1991, Sola became Sanmina's chairman and CEO.
In the 1990s original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) had increasingly begun outsourcing production to firms like Sanmina. Sola was able to grow the company in the early 1990s by focusing on providing contract manufacturing, and Sanmina established itself as an electronics manufacturer for OEMs. The company increased its annual revenue by more than $20 million over the 5 years following the management buy-out. In February 1993, the company went public.
Merger and name changes
In December 2001, Sanmina merged [ clarification needed ] with SCI Systems of Huntsville, Alabama, for $6 billion in cash, stock, and debt. Although Sanmina was only half as large as SCI at the time, it was in a better cash position because its core telecommunications business was performing well, whereas SCI's lower-margin businesses such as personal computer manufacturing, were struggling. Shortly after, Sanmina-SCI bought E-M Solutions, a bankrupt Fremont, California electronics manufacturer, for $110 million in cash. Then in early 2002, Sanmina acquired Rancho Santa Margarita -based Viking Interworks for $15 million ($10.9 million in cash and 390,000 shares of Sanmina stock worth $10.26 per share at the time).
On November 15, 2012, the company changed its name to Sanmina.
On July 2, 2015, the company announced that it had acquired the CertainSource Technology Group. [ citation needed ]
Change of leadership
Bob Eulau replaced co-founder Jure Sola becoming the CEO effective October 2, 2017. After this change, Sola assumed the role of Executive Chairman of the Board. Hartmut Liebel assumed the role of CEO in October, 2019. Jure Sola returned again as CEO in August 2020.