Case Study of Samsung’s Mobile Phone Business I. Introduction For Samsung Electronics‚ 2003 was a watershed year. It successfully positioned itself as one of the world’s best mobile phone manufacturers and its products were featured all over the media. Many were calling its mobile phones as “the best gift for Christmas”1 or “the Mercedes of mobile phones.”2 Samsung’s achievements were particularly remarkable considering that its primary focus had previously been in semiconductors and home appliances
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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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TABLE DES MATIERES 1. TABLE DES MATIERES 2 1.INTRODUCTION 3 2. FICHES SIGNALETIQUES 4 A . Samsung Electronics Co.‚ Ltd. 4 4 B . LG Electronics‚ Inc. (LG) 5 3.ANALYSE DE SAMSUNG 7 Sa mission consiste donc à être la meilleure société spécialisée dans l’électronique. Samsung affronte de face ses objectifs pour être une société de réputation internationale. Elle cherche une réactivité‚ créativité et efficacité optimales afin d’inventer et de commercialiser des produits qui détermineront
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Apple’s Mobile Future: Corporate and Business Strategy June 16th‚ 2010 For my final undergraduate business paper‚ I wrote an analysis of Apple as it transforms into a mobile company. I am posting it here in its entirety (except for financial exhibits) below. Especially since they released the iPhone in 2007‚ Apple has been spectacularly successful. In 2009‚ sales totaled more than $36 billion‚ compared to just $5.3 billion in 2001‚ and their market capitalization is nearing Microsoft’s. This
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President and CEO of Samsung‚ South West Asia‚ the 58-year-old Lee has been busy turning all Samsung strategies on their heads. The Korean consumer electronics giant is now reaching deeper and wider into the Indian market‚ tempting consumers with technologically advanced products specially tailored to their needs. Showrooms are being brought under a common umbrella brand and now‚ a new facility may well become a manufacturing hub for Samsung worldwide. Not that Lee views his "strategy revitalisation"
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Discussion issue 2: Since the early part of 2001‚ it has been notices that Samsung has been increasingly successful in repositioning the brand of its various products a higher level competing with market leaders like Sony and Apple. Research and find out how their advertising and promotion strategy was changed to achieve these objectives. Any comments and suggestions. Answer: Samsung Group‚ belongs from South Korea‚ which is also the world’s second largest conglomerate by revenue has different
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The threat of potential new entrants (Low) High capital is required to enter into the mobile industry. It is difficult to start up in an industry where the existing firms already operate on cost and differentiation strategies (Chan et al‚ 2011‚ p.12). However‚ with the commoditization of parts‚ finding vanilla solutions for a simple alternative product might be possible. Differentiation‚ however‚ is another story. New entrants would have issues with overcoming patent issues if they didn’t plan
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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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11/25/13 SAMSUNG ELECT LTD(F) (SSNLF): Samsung’s New Strategy Is A Worry For Apple - Seeking Alpha Samsung’s New Strategy Is A Worry For Apple Nov 25 2013‚ 00:07 by: Vivek Gupta ‚ Samsung (OTC:SSNLF) and Apple (AAPL) are two leading players of the smartphone industry (see the table below). Apple is the most profitable‚ while Samsung is the largest player (by revenue as well as volumes) in the industry. Samsung is not only the largest but also is the most competitive player in the industry
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Samsung means “three stars” in Korean. Lee Byung-Chull founded Samsung in 1938. It started as a small trading company with forty employees‚ located in Seoul. The company did fairly well until the Communist invasion in 1950 which caused great damage to his inventories. He was force to leave and start over in Suwon in 1951. In just a year‚ the company’s assets had grown twenty-fold. In 1953‚ Lee created a sugar refinery—the South Korea’s first manufacturing facility after the Korean War. “The company
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