Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Nature of the Business

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Nature of the Business
12 Months Ended
Jan. 03, 2021
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Nature of the business

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Nature of the business

SMTC Corporation (the “Company”, “we” or “SMTC”) is a provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing services, or EMS, including product design and sustaining engineering services, printed circuit board assembly, or PCBA, production, enclosure fabrication, cable assembly, systems integration and comprehensive testing services, configuration to order, build to order and direct order fulfilment. SMTC has manufacturing facilities in United States and Mexico with 3,215 employees of which 2,881 were full time and contract employees. In December we approved our plans to close our Zacatecas (Mexico) manufacturing operations.

SMTC’s services extend over the entire electronic product life cycle from the development and introduction of new products through to growth, maturity and end of life phases. SMTC offers fully integrated contract manufacturing services to global original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, and technology companies primarily within the test and measurement, retail and payment systems, telecom, networking and communications, medical and safety, industrial IoT, power and clean technology, semiconductors, and avionics, aerospace and defense market segments. In addition, the Company operates an international sourcing and procurement office in Hong Kong and a supply chain center in the United States.

The Company’s financial reporting year is a 52, 53 or 54 week fiscal period, ending on the Sunday nearest December 31. Accordingly, the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, the consolidated statements of changes in shareholders’ equity, and consolidated statements of cash flows are reported for the periods from December 30, 2019 to January 3, 2021 (“year ended December 29, 2019”), December 31, 2018 to December 29, 2019 (“year ended December 29, 2019”), and January 1, 2018 to December 30, 2018 (“year ended December 30, 2018”).