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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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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The history of Samsung The Samsung Group emerged as one of the largest organization in the world over the years while the company is known for their technology division as well. The company is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company in Samsung Town‚ Seoul‚ South Korea. The size of the company is almost inestimable in recent years. Thus‚ I choose the Samsung group as the organization for my assignment. The founder of the Samsung is Lee Byung Chull who started his business by exporting
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sources of competitive advantage that increase the WTP for Samsung customers. The first one is the Product Mix. Samsung offer to its customers a huge variety of products‚ ranging from the cutting-edge technology to more basic products. It also offers customized products to focus on niche markets. With this strategy‚ Samsung is able to compete in a broad range of segments in the market‚ usually offering superior products. In 2003 for example‚ Samsung offered over 1‚200 different variations of DRAM products
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Is Samsung Mobile Business Model sustainable in China facing the growing Chinese competitors ? “Change everything except your wives and kids” Lee Keun-Hee‚ CEO of Samsung group in 1993 after he visited an electronic store and saw Samsung products gathering dust behind Sony and Panasonic products. Introduction : Why did I choose this subject ? I have been following this company for 6 years so far. Recently‚ I have been really concerned by the fact Samsung has been losing market share and displaced
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Samsung for the past 3 years has been sharing their sustainable accomplishments through a sustainability report. This report demonstrates the impact Samsung had on people‚ society‚ and the environment. The structure for their sustainable report closely resembles that of an annual report. It is divided into three parts: Sustainability overview‚ Material issues‚ and Facts and figures. They monitor their accomplishments by setting benchmarks for each year. An example of these benchmarks: in 2011 they
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of directors. Evaluate the current board of Samsung Electronics. What are the strengths and weaknesses in the current board composition? How many directors can be classified as non-executive? How many can be classified as independent? What are your criteria’s for assessing director independence? Do you think changes need to be made to the current board composition? If no - why not‚ if yes - what changes would you recommend? The board of Samsung Electronics has 23 directors of which 7 are executive
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2012‚ which was 44.1% more than in 2011. -Top Five Smartphone Vendors‚ Shipments‚ and Market Share Calendar Year 2012 (Units in Millions) Vendor 2012 Unit Shipments 2012 Market Share 2011 Unit Shipments 2011 Market Share Year over Year Change 1. Samsung 215.8 30.3% 94.2 19.0% 129.1% 2. Apple 135.9 19.1% 93.1 18.8% 46.9% 3. Nokia 35.1 4.9% 77.3 15.6% -54.6% 4. HTC 32.6 4.6% 43.6 8.8% -25.2% 5. Research In Motion 32.5 4.6% 51.1 10.3% -36.4% Others 260.7 36.5% 135.3 27.5% 92.7% Total 712.6 100
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dimension at which the observation is located‚ so these values must be specified for each observation. Prepared By: Anuj Arora – 12FN019 Himika Chaudhary Nitin Mudgal Prateek Kumar – 12DM101 Sachin Gupta – 12FN107 Samsung India Electronics Ltd is a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation headquartered in Seoul‚ Korea. The company was incorporated in the year 1995. The company is having their head office at Delhi and branch office at 16 locations all over the India. Their manufacturing
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analysis of the Samsung company because I spend a full year in South-Korea‚ from july 2011 until august 2012. Hence‚ Samsung is an extremely important conglomerate in this country‚ working there is for many considered as a « dream-job » and furthemore produce as much as 20% as the country total exports. Samsung is well known for their electronic product created by the electronic subsidiaries of the company‚ Sansung Electronics. Their flagship phone‚ currently being the Samsung Galaxy S3 sold over
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