At exit, Freescale was a global leader in embedded processing solutions for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. It has a heritage of innovation and product leadership spanning more than 50 years. See how Freescale achieved its goal of being an embedded processing leader with our backing…
Freescale
Together we achieved
- Strengthening of management team and business unit leaders, resulting in a transformation of culture
- Focus on large, high-growth market-leading business opportunities
- An increase the depth and breadth of its customer relationships
- Development of existing and new intellectual property to form a leading Internet of Things portfolio
- Leverage of their asset-light strategy
This was accomplished by
- Increasing its footprint in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China
- Transforming the business into a fab-lite manufacturer, reducing the number of sites from ten to three
- Establishing a new leadership team and re-allocating research & development initiatives that resulted in all five business units reporting double-digit growth in 2014
- Merging successfully with NXP Semiconductors NV which closed in December 2015
The metrics
2006
Acquisition year
2015
Exit year
Gross Margin Growth
2014 - 38%
2010 - 48%