Thirty-three years ago, five friends sat down at a kitchen table in Tulsa, Oklahoma and decided to start a company. Among them: president of Maccor Andy MacKay and his wife Helen, who runs personnel. Today, less than a mile from that spot, Maccor now occupies 80,000 square feet of space and has earned itself a reputation as the top manufacturer of battery testing systems in the world.
Maccor is one of 9,000 American suppliers that Apple spent a collective $60 billion dollars with in 2018, which supports 450,000 jobs. Altogether, Apple is responsible for creating and supporting 2.4 million US jobs across all 50 states, four times the number of American jobs attributable to the company eight years ago. Apple is on pace to directly contribute $350 billion to the US economy by 2023, which the company announced in January of 2018.
“The relationship with Apple has been tremendous and company-changing for us,” says Andy. “We want to build the absolute best equipment we can build — we don’t want to cut corners. Apple is a company where quality is paramount and they push us constantly to see if we can make improvements in our commercial product.”
Maccor designs and manufactures high-accuracy hardware and software to test the performance of batteries. The rigorous quality and performance testing helps ensure the batteries found in Apple products are safe and durable.
When Maccor started working with Apple 15 years ago, the company was 60 employees strong. That number has doubled to more than 130 and includes a new facility in San Jose, California. In the last year alone, Maccor’s staff has increased by a third and the company is in the process of hiring more skilled workers.
Every year, Apple looks for new opportunities to expand its existing supplier relationships — in June, Apple entered into an agreement with Broadcom Limited, a California company with a manufacturing facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, to purchase high performance radio frequency modules and components. Since Apple awarded Finisar $390 million as part of the Advanced Manufacturing Fund in December, 2017, the manufacturer is on track to fill 500 full-time positions in Sherman, Texas, in addition to creating nearly 1,000 construction jobs. Finisar is expected to begin shipping lasers called VCSELs, used to power FaceID in the latest iPhones and iPads, in the coming months.
A significant amount of the jobs Apple supports in the US are found in the booming app economy, which is currently responsible for 1.9 million American jobs — an increase of 325,000 in the last two and a half years. Several states saw double-digit growth during that period, including a 43 percent increase in North Carolina, representing almost 15,000 new jobs, and a 50 percent increase in Florida, which added almost 30,000 new jobs. Pennsylvania saw a 64 percent increase in growth, going from 40,800 jobs in 2016 to more than 67,000 today.
Apple also directly employs 90,000 employees in all 50 states, putting the company on track to create 20,000 new jobs across the US by 2023. Earlier this year in San Diego, Apple announced an expansion that will include 1,200 direct jobs and a new campus featuring hundreds of thousands of square feet of office, lab and research space. In Seattle, Apple will add 2,000 new employees in highly skilled engineering positions.
At the heart of all of this growth are companies like Maccor and people like the MacKays, who take pride in investing back into their community. Over the last decade, they have helped almost 50 students go to college through scholarships they fund through the University of Tulsa.
“There wasn’t any money in [our] family to put me through college and I was fortunate to get a full-ride scholarship from the company my mom worked for,” says Andy. “I always remembered that because it changed the trajectory of my life completely, so when the time came that we had the means, we wanted to see if we could help other people in the same way.”
When Andy looks back on his journey, he’s still amazed at where it has led.
“None of us who started this company would have believed that we would ever get to be anything like we are now,” says Andy. “We stand out on the production floor and just look at each other and say ‘Would you ever have thought when we were sitting at the kitchen table at that house a mile away from here that we’d ever be standing in the middle of a building like this?’ We had no idea what was in store for us.”
Source: Apple Inc.
MacDailyNews Take: Imagine, Apple is responsible for creating and supporting 2.4 million US jobs across all 50 U.S. states, a four-fold increase in just eight years!
Don’t tell me about Apple supporting 2.4 it means nothing how many do they actually apply employee in the US 75,000?
Apple also directly employs 90,000 employees in all 50 states, putting the company on track to create 20,000 new jobs across the US by 2023. Earlier this year in San Diego, Apple announced an expansion that will include 1,200 direct jobs and a new campus featuring hundreds of thousands of square feet of office, lab and research space. In Seattle, Apple will add 2,000 new employees in highly skilled engineering positions.
Some people just gotta hate Apple.
I got to ask. How many jobs are you creating? I get it. Apple makes to much money and your are pissed off about it and you think you deserve something. You don’t like it that they are successfull.
Like all the kids I work with. They have iPhones but still hate Apple. I bring them helmets and trophies to work just for showing up late.
Certainly, under the pro business, less government regulations and lower taxes enacted under President Trump — the growth most likely will accelerate more than the 5.5 years under highly taxed and regulated businesses during President Obama’s term.
Bring more on, Apple. The business climate is better than ever…
He’s been President for almost three years. Why isn’t the economy accelerating at a faster rate than under Obama already? Yes the absolute levels are higher than in January 2017, but the rate of growth has not materially improved.
The economy was at rock bottom when Obama was sworn in compared second only to the Great Depression. Logic dictates it had no where else to expect “ACCELERATE” up, up and up. So that cherry picked statistic favorable to your team is meaningless taken out of context and not looking at the full picture.
Recessions are similar to the 17-year Cicadas emergence. Only shorter time spans about every 10-12 years when explosive growth is tempered for a short time. Simply natural economic cycles going on for over a hundred years.
You are right the recovery began under Obama. But lying by omission you neglected to mention he had absolutely NOTHING to do with it. Economy at the second worst bottom, market forces have nowhere to go but up on their own. No wishful help from a magic wand required.
President Obama’s policies of onerous government stranglehold regulations, high taxation, browbeating big business, the golden egg of job creation, for making too much money and pitifully shaming them in the complicit media for “not paying their fair share.” Then the signature EPIC BAD policy move: everyone buy health insurance from the government or elsewhere. In many cases lose your doctor, double or triple your premiums and If you don’t pay up comrade citizen, the newly hired 11,000 IRS agents, the most hated government agency, will relentlessly pursue you for non compliance. Thank God Trump did away with that overbearing and threatening regulation.
The Democrats don’t have a f*cking clue how to ignite the economy or create jobs not seen since the JFK tax cuts. They mouth empty platitudes every election cycle in the same media that DOES NOT hold them accountable for lack of performance. NEVER! 😡
They have only ONE PLAY in the Democrat playbook that works. The mission of the party: Tax everyone from all parties and spend in the holy name of compassion to legally buy votes for life for their team. The taxpayer money combined with new government agencies to solve problems, solve almost nothing. The hand outs are designed to win re-election, nothing more.
Fast forward to Trump’s first year. Unleashed the government shackles, lowered taxes, rescinding Obama regulations, genuinely talking confidence in new jobs and businesses large and small, record multiple stock market records and the economy naturally RESPONDED and took off like a rocket.
We need PRO business presidents that understand the economy and keep it great. What we don’t need is lip service liberal ideologues stuck in the theoretical classroom with words and ideas that don’t work.
Obama lectured “teaching moments” for eight years. Yes, his numbers of approval remain high today. Big deal and for what? Possibly adored by the media and Hollywood. His unemployment numbers, poverty numbers, and dozens of other economic numbers rank LOWER than the Trump administration.
Get a grip, USER…
When I look at all the economic charts, I see curves that have maintained the same slope from 2011 or thereabouts until today. You see a sharp change in 2017 when the “economy took off like a rocket.” You are entitled to your opinion. The rest of us are entitled to believe our eyes.
Yeah, looking at the incompetent media that had Hillary winning by 85% on Election Day.
Nuff said…