Background Information:
- 85 Factories
- Less than 3% of factories are located in Canada
-  11K full time and part time employees

Disadvantages of Company:
- Increased operating costs due to more more stores and factories
- Decrease in companies profits due to boycotts caused by poor working conditions
- Increase in inventory mark downs due to large amount of product recalls

As of 2013:
- Cambodia and Bangladesh working conditions have come into question
- Strikes for higher pay resulting in charges and property damage
- Factory collapse in Bangladesh leaving 1129 workers dead
- Decrease in consumers due to outsourcing affecting supply and demand

Advantages:
- Increase in salaries/wages for store workers due to more products being produced
- Earnings per share increased $1.55 in February 2015
- In 2015 sales increased from $711 million to $1.8 billion 
- Cheap labour for Vancouver based headquarters caused by outsourcing 

- Starbucks has to contend with copyright infringement, China doesn't enforce trademark violations

- adaptation for foreign markets & trends is costly

- developing countries involved with coffee industry have to fight for intellectual property (Ethiopia vs. Starbucks)

- poor countries frequently trod on in legal battles in Starbucks' efforts for widespread 'Starbucks experience'

Using third party companies, Apple can provide access to labour that is cheaper and more efficient. Also, Apple Companies quality of the labour is often still great, despite the reduced costs.Moving manufacturing overseas can mean that companies can close plants in their own countries. Saves money for company because it expensive to manufacture in their home country.

Because people in third world countries are desperate for jobs, they are willing to work for Apple at any cost. The workers in China often make less than seventeen dollars a day, with not very good working conditions. Another point is that this company sometimes has factories and buildings with very few regulations which makes the environment dangerous. The people work extremely long hours of about 80 hours a week and often have to stand, or are only allowed to use one third of a chair to sit in order to keep them focused. 

As of May 2016, Apple company was named #41 on the market cap, with $586 billion.