IN 2012‚ SAMSUNG‚ with $248 billion in revenues‚ was one of the largest conglomerates globally and the largest chaebol1 in South Korea. A rough comparison would be the U.S. conglomerate General Electric‚ which had $147 billion in revenues in the same year. Established in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul as a trading company selling noodles and dried seafood‚ Samsung has since diversified into various industries‚ such as electronics‚ chemicals‚ shipbuilding‚ financial services‚ and construction. In particular
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Introduction Samsung has been in the business for over 70 years‚ it is a company which is considered to diversify its business ranging from mobile phones to washing machines‚ TV’s to microwave‚ all kinds of home appliances to the most modern worldly technology needs of human kind. Samsung is a $160 billion company. Through research‚ reliability and a talented workforce‚ Samsung is able to provide technological solutions for our everyday lives. Samsung is known for its TVs however they have penetrated
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Computers at 25.5% holding the second position. Global market for Consumer Electronics especially in Tablet will record strong hold over the next 5 years driven by raising demand in fast – growth market in Asian and other emerging countries. Major companies are located in Japan‚ South Korea and Taiwan region and are dominating the consumer Electronics Industry Growth. Increase in the incomes and spending power of individuals‚ the consumer electronic market has witnessed a boom in sales‚ in the past
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Samsung Group Timeline and History Samsung’s beginnings (1938 ~ 1969) On March 1‚ 1938‚ founding chairman Byung-Chull Lee started a business in Taegu‚ Korea with 30‚000 won. At first‚ Mr. Lee’s little business was primarily in trade export‚ selling dried Korean fish‚ vegetables‚ and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing. But in just over a decade‚ SAMSUNG - meaning literally "three stars" in Korean - would have its own flour mills and confectionery machines‚ its own manufacturing and sales operations
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Type | Chaebol | Industry | Conglomerate | Founded | 1938 | Founder(s) | Lee Byung-chul | Headquarters | Samsung Town‚ Seoul‚ South Korea | Area served | Worldwide | Key people | Lee Kun-hee (Chairman of Samsung Electronics) | Products | Apparel‚ chemicals‚ consumer electronics‚ electronic components‚ medical equipment‚ precision instruments‚ semiconductors‚ships‚ telecommunications equipment | Services | Advertising‚ construction‚ entertainment‚ financial services‚ hospitality‚
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Factors Affecting the Market Demand & Supply for Mobile Phones Supply and demand is the basis of the world economic system. In a world of advertising‚ marketing‚ and promotion‚ there is some question as to whether demand creates supply or supply creates demand. Whichever way it happens‚ there is no question that in the field of mobile phones the result is a massive market. According to the UK’s The Guardian‚ as of March 2009 more than half the world had mobile phone accounts. Developing
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1. Company Background. Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town‚ Seoul. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses‚ most of them united under the Samsung brand‚ and is the largest South Korean Chaebol. Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (the world’s largest information technology company measured by 2012 revenues)‚Samsung Heavy Industries (the world’s second-largest shipbuilder measured
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we talk about businesses that have humble beginning‚ then the history of Samsung can serve as the perfect example. It all started on March 1‚ 1938 when Byung-Chull Lee‚ the founding chairman of Samsung initiated a business in Korea with a capital of only 30‚000 won. The primary products of what was then Samsung were dried Korean fish‚ fruits‚ and vegetables traded from Beijing and Manchuria. For the etymology of Samsung‚ it has the root words "three stars." The business or Mr. Lee expanded and
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2007 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Environmental & Social Report Contents Message from the CEO 08 At a Glance 10 Company Profile Financial Performance Our Sustainability Our Environment 11 14 16 20 Philosophy & Policy Focus Areas Management System Activity & Performance 21 22 23 27 Our Business Partners 44 Philosophy & Policy Focus Areas Management System Activity & Performance 45 46 47 49 Our Community Philosophy & Policy
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1. Background Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town‚ Seoul. Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chull in 1938 as a trading company. It entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s. Since the 1990s Samsung has increasingly globalised its activities‚ and electronics‚ particularly mobile phones and semiconductors‚ has become its most important source of income. In the first
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