Jabil has positive earnings

**Brainiac** · September-29-09, 07:14 PM

http://www.tampabay.com/news/busines...icle828763.ece

Does anyone know the history of why Jabil HQ left Detroit for Florida?

**48202** · September-29-09, 08:27 PM

"In 1982 the company moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, after obtaining a contract to make add-on circuit boards for the IBM Personal Computer unit in Boca Raton. Within a year Jabil's sales doubled to $100 million."

From http://www.answers.com/topic/jabil-circuit-inc

**Brainiac** · September-29-09, 08:38 PM

There's got to be more. Jabil HQ could have stayed put...

**tangerine** · October-08-09, 10:25 PM

I don't know but it's a gigantic company.
Jabil, Bendix, Burroughs [[now Unisys), Strohs.. you could have a whole metro on the companies that have left Detroit.

**bsu** · October-09-09, 10:37 AM

Jabil still has a large facility in Auburn Hills just north of the Palace.

**Meddle** · October-09-09, 11:17 AM

They were a little pipsqueak startup when I was dealing with them around the time old man Morean moved on and left it with the kids. Somewhere in Troy, don't remember the street, but I can still picture the building.