Samsung Electronics case study The Samsung Electronics Company was the largest conglomerate in South Korea. The total net sales of the Samsung Group were $135 billion in 2004. It has 337 overseas operations in 58 countries. Electronic‚ finance‚ and trade and services were the three core sectors within the Samsung Group. Semiconductor products were classified into two different categories of chips‚ which are memory and logic. To focus on the global memory chip industry
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Q. What was Samsung Electronics target‚ how did it change and what is a best way for it to change in the future with the changing external environment? When Samsung Electronics started out by purchasing the first wafer production in Korea called the Korea Semiconductor Company. Kun hee Lee saw the potential in the semiconductor industry‚ and the investment will offer higher offer higher growth rates. Since the company was relying on labor-intensive assembly lines‚ importing semiconductors and
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Q1. Samsung Electronics strategy has successfully achieved both low-cost advantages and differentiated products. Samsung is able to achieve and maintain its low cost position due to various factors. Samsung has always emphasized on process and production efficiency. The company places all its fab lines and R&D facility at a single site‚ so that engineers from various departments can come together to resolve any process or design issues as soon as possible. Benefiting from the collocation‚ Samsung
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customer needs has generated a positive synergy for Samsung allowing the company to charge a premium for their niche component architecture. This competence of creating over 1‚200 different products has given rise to a series of interrelated reactions that are hard to imitate (inimitable) by others but are continually replicated by Samsung (appropriable). In this practice Samsung has developed close relationships with customers that are relying on Samsung as a partner in the development of specific memory
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Pestel Analysis Political Factors : * War‚ terrorism‚ geopolitical uncertainties; issues beyond company’s ability to control. * 52% of the company’s net sales in 2007 coming from countries outside America. * Manufacturing or logistics might be interrupted by political events in the manufacturing countries. Economic Factors : * Overall global economy outlook is not good. * Inflation reduced consumer’s expenditure on luxuries. * Economic crisis influencing Apple’s retail’s
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CONTENTS Background of the Samsung Mission statement (Aim & Goal) Objective Product Initiatives Advertising & Promotional Strategies SWOT Analysis SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS« Samsung was established in 1969 as the flagship company of SAMSUNG CORPORATION It was the third largest player in the Korean electronics market after LG and Daewoo In the 1980 it acquired Korea Telecommunications Corp‚ which was renamed Samsung Semiconductor & Telecommunications Co. in 1982
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the Canadian consumer electronics market was valued at Cdn 2.3 billion. It was a fairly mature market‚ in which many multinational firms competed for market share. Sony was by far the leader in this region and had held onto that position for the last two decades. Canadian consumers were very technology-savvy and valued quality‚ customer service and favorable return policies over low prices. By 2000‚ Samsung had evolved into a credible player in the consumer electronics market and had attained
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Executive Summary Samsung Electronics was established in 1969 and successfully developed its own products internally in 1980s. The company grew very fast and even continued to lead the market with an 8% growth in gross sales during Asian crisis in 1997. Now it is transforming to a global digital company with many products occupying substantial market shares in the world. Samsung Electronics attributed its success to four main factors; (1) Highly creative employees can develop new technologies;
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“Strategic planning involves identifying the current business of a firm and the business it wants for the future‚ and the course of action or strategy it will use to pursue its objectives.” (definition) While Harley-Davidson and its competitors‚ both domestic and international‚ have been alive for decades‚ it is becoming increasingly difficult to shift such established entities to compliment a new‚ younger group of potential riders. An expanding economy‚ technological advances such as the internet
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94 95 GLOBAL NETWORK GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS Samsung Electronics Co.‚ Ltd. Samsung Electronics Bldg.‚ 1320-10‚ Seocho 2-dong‚ Seocho-gu‚ Seoul 137-857‚ Korea Tel : 82-2-2255-0114 www.samsung.com North America Samsung Electronics North America Headquarters 85 Challenger Road‚ Ridgefield Park‚ NJ 07660‚ USA Latin America Samsung Electronics Latin America Headquarters Samsung Electronica Da Amazonia Ltda. Avenida das Nacoes Unidas‚ 12901‚ 8 andar‚ Torre
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