Delta Electronics (Thailand), which employs almost 22,000 people, became the country's first company to hit a market capitalization of $100 billion. (Source photos by Joseph Rachman and Kenya Akama)
Country's most valuable listed company benefits from links to Taiwan-based parent
SAMUT PRAKAN, Thailand — It is 7 p.m. and workers are streaming through the gates of Delta Electronics' (Thailand) plant in the Bangpoo Industrial Estate, in Thailand's Samut Prakan province, just outside Bangkok. Hawkers sell snacks to the overwhelmingly female crowd.