TAIPEI -- Even during the years of Foxconn's eminence as the biggest piece of Apple's global supply chain, executives of the Taiwanese company always kept an eye on a little-known Chinese supplier: Luxshare-ICT.
Luxshare was barely a dot on the horizon. But savvy Foxconn executives saw a company cut from the same cloth as their own -- not least because it was started by Grace Wang, a former employee of a Foxconn affiliate whose style echoed that of their own founder Terry Gou. They believed it could grow into a formidable rival.
