March 5‚ 2014 Samsung Electronics Case Analysis This case study analysis on Samsung Electronics Company (SEC) and identify its competition advantages and threats. In this case‚ authors mainly talk about the business of Samsung Company in memory industry market. This paper consists by the following section: external analysis‚ internal analysis‚ and problem solution. ⅰExternal Analysis Using the six forces model to analyze this case‚ we can identify opportunities and threats of Samsung in the memory
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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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genius of a rocket scientist to recognize that branding is the lifeblood of any corporation. This was well recognized by Samsung Electronics Corporation (Samsung)‚ way back in 1998‚ when the South Korea’s leading consumer electronics giant entered into an agreement with the International Olympic Association (IOA) to sponsor the 1998 Seoul Olympics. The message was clear. Samsung wanted to sponsor Olympics to establish itself as a global brand. And it became successful to a great extent too. Samsung’s
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How important role do Samsung and Apple play in global smartphone market? Phone market is high developed and changeable market. For instance‚ in 2011 smartphones penetrated around 29% of the global market. The highest penetration was in USA‚ 65% In 2016 would ship around 653 million units of smartphones. Also‚ in 2010next companies divided the market like this: Nokia 33.1%‚ RIM 16.1%‚ Apple 15.7% Samsung 7.6%. But after a year Samsung and Apple become biggest companies in global market. Also they
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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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Apple vs. Samsung Apple and Samsung are the world’s two largest high-end mobile providers. Apple and Samsung are major competitors but are also business partners. Apple is one of Samsung’s biggest phone component customers and Samsung is one of Apple’s biggest suppliers. According to Bloomberg’s supply chain analysis‚ Apple accounts for 9% of Samsung’s revenue‚ which makes Apple Samsung’s largest costumer. Despite the companies’ business relationship‚ in April of 2011 Apple sued Samsung for copying
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SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS SUMMARY Under Kun Hee Lee’s leadership Samsung has risen to become the world’s leading memory producer for all types of PCs‚ game players‚ digital cameras and other electronic equipments. In 1987‚ Samsung was a “bit player”‚ years behind its key Japanese rivals. In 2003 Samsung’s memory division is bigger than that of Japanese rivals in both size & profits. The memory chip industry was expected to face cyclical downturn in 2005 and Samsung survived two previous downturns
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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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