The group's principal activities are providing time-critical and technologically advanced design, development and manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers and other providers of electronics manufacturing services. the group specializes in providing technologically advanced services to its customers on a short turnaround basis and focuses on this segment of the electronics manufacturing services industry. the group offers a suite of value-added, integrated services in support of its customers' new development. the group's customers use the services to develop and produce a wide variety of end products, including communications, switching and transmission equipment, wireless base stations, work stations, high-end computing equipment and data networking equipment. the group's major customers are ibm, intel, marconi communications and 3com. in 2001, the group acquired thomas walter limited, nelco technology, olympic circuits cana