Samsung was founded by Byung-Chull Lee in 1938 when Byung-Chull Lee came to the nearby Daegu city. It was a small trading company with 40 employees. The word of Samsung means ‘three stars’ in Korea which represents big‚ numerous and powerful. Byung-Chull Lee established a sugar factory in South Korea in 1953. In his opinion‚ this act is important because this is the first manufacturer factory built after the Korean War. In 1960s‚ Samsung moved into various service businesses. Examples of the service
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Memo To: Kun Hee Lee‚ Chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics From: Josh Graham‚ Senior Consultant‚ Whirlwind Consulting Co. Date: 28-Apr-08 Re: Emerging Chinese DRAM industry Executive Summary Whirlwind Consulting Company has reviewed the current position of Samsung in the semiconductor and memory chip industry‚ and has completed an extensive internal and external analysis to determine Samsung’s options in response to the threat of significant future expansion within the Chinese semiconductor industry
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Samsung case 1. How was Samsung able to go from copycat brand to product leader? In 1993‚ Lee unveiled “new management” which is a top-to-bottom strategy for Samsung to make Samsung become a bigger and more powerful company that would also eliminate Sony as the biggest consumer electronics firm in the world. To achieve this Samsung hired a new group of young designers who unleashed new products. Samsung abandoned low-end distributers‚ and build strong relationships with specialty retailers
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Comparison between Apple and Samsung Mention to smartphones‚ the first two brands flashing into my mind are Apple and Samsung. The top five smartphone vendor market share in 2011 is 17% for Samsung and 18.8% for Apple. In 2012‚ they become 30.4% and 16.9%. These two leading IT companies do compete in some other products‚ such as desktops and laptops. However‚ the fiercest competitive product is smartphone because both of them own their own advantages. We can figure out their emphasis and strategy
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We think the convertible bond issue was a self-dealing transaction. Because the Samsung Electronics issued the private convertible bonds‚ which worth 60 billion won‚ to the chairman’s son Lee Jae-Yong (45 billion won) and another Samsung affiliate (15 billion won). We think the purpose of issuing the convertible bonds is to transfer the management power to the chairman’s son‚ thus maintaining family control‚ because the bonds can be converted to shares of the company. Even though they knew this
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I. Situation Analysis A. Company Philosophy Samsung Electronics has to be the cutting-edge product leader in consumer electronics producing new sleek‚ bold‚ and beautiful products which they called as “lifestyle works of art” intended for the high-end users. Each product has to pass the “WOW” test. If it did not get the “WOW” reaction during market testing‚ it is scrapped or sent back to the design studio. B. Current Strategy The company is focused on the development and production of
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Its primary focus was on trade export‚ selling fish‚ vegetables‚ and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing. Since then‚ Samsung has grown to become one of the world’s most famed electronics company‚ making name in field of digital appliances and media‚ semiconductors‚ memory‚ and system integration. Like its motto‚ Samsung’s vision is‚ "Inspire the World‚ Create the Future
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4 P’s of Samsung smartphone: What made it possible for Samsung to beat Apple in smartphone sales? Almost three years before‚ during a press conference a question has been asked to Aamir Khan “If you are a number one actor in Bollywood‚ then why don’t you endorse number one brand in mobiles” Aamir replied “Samsung is not a number one brand at this stage but it will become soon”. Everyone laughed to the answer and probably they were right. Who would have been thought that in the crowd of many superior
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MANAGEMENT UNIV. MERCU BUANA STUDY CASE MARKETING MANAGEMENT Samsung Electronics Company : Question for Study Case discussion: 1. What are the ingredients of SEC’s corporate turnaround strategy? What are the implications for marketing mix policies? 2. How strong is the Samsung brand? Can Samsung pass Sony and become a top ten global brand? 3. As Chief Marketing Officer‚ what are Kim’s role and responsibilities? 4. What does Samsung (and Kim) have to do to become one of the top ten brands in the
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November 2012 The Nokia and Samsung Brand Personality in China* Wendian Shi1**‚ Yanhong Luo2 and Liheng Yang2 Educational School‚Shanghai Normal University‚ shanghai‚ China 1 Educational School‚ Ningxia University‚ Yinchuan‚ China 2 Email: swd_nx@shnu.edu.cn Abstract The purpose of this paper is to study and compare the brand personality of Nokia and Samsung in Chinese situation for brand building reference. This paper investigated Nokia and Samsung brand personality. Results demonstrated
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