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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 9, 2019--Flex (NASDAQ:FLEX) announced today that it has been awarded an Automotive News Innovation Partnership PACE Award for its game-changing collaboration with the electric vehicle manufacturer NIO on the Interior User Experience for the NIO ES6 and ES8 models. Flex was a Finalist in 2017, but this is the first PACE Award win for the company.

“I’m proud to say that this collaboration between Flex and NIO served as a milestone as the first of its kind and is setting a new standard for the automotive market,” said Chris Obey, president of Automotive at Flex. “The automotive supply chain ecosystem is changing; the one-on-one relationship between a supplier and an OEM is evolving to allow new entrants such as Silicon Valley software and autonomous technology companies to team up with automotive suppliers and OEMs to bring new innovations to the market. Flex is uniquely qualified to play a leading role in this evolving ecosystem, fulfilling multiple roles as a hardware supplier, integrator, and manufacturing automotive grade at scale.”