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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a slow and steady growth trend and demonstrated signs of future growth around the excitement of ultra-thin platforms. But‚ the real growth drivers continued to be smartphone platforms. In the smartphone market‚ Nokia lost the leadership crown to Samsung. The total global mobile phone and smartphone market is expected to be worth $341.4 billion in 2015 while smartphone revenue will account for 75.8% of the total mobile handset revenue at $258.9 billion in 2015. Smartphones are currently witnessing
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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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Samsung Galaxy – “The Next Big Thing Is Already Here” We live in an era that has become dominated and controlled by technology. This same technology is advancing at breakneck speeds to improve the lives of the many people in the world. Families‚ friends‚ colleagues‚ and neighbors all share relationships with each other and keep in touch in various ways. The invention of the smartphone changed the way people connect with not just each other‚ but the world around them. The evolution of the design
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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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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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should be found liable for any infringements. Further Microsoft reached a licensing agreement in April 2010 with HTC to pay royalties on Android based handsets ("Patent wars"‚ 2011). More recently‚ Apple launched a lawsuit against Samsung in April 2011 claiming Samsung copied design features of the iPhone in its Galaxy line of Android phones (Quigley‚ 2011). These are just a few examples of legal challenges faced by smartphone manufacturers. Mentioning all lawsuits in the past several years is beyond
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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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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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