Case Analysis for Samsung Electronics 1. What is SMIC’s strategy? Should Samsung be concerned about SMIC? SMIC seems to execute the same kind of strategy Samsung used before to succeed. The strategy is selling their products at low prices and growing their market share at the expense of profitability. SMIC may threaten Samsung’s business in the future‚ but not too much. Although SMIC can get many resources‚ such as cheap funds and lands from Chinese government and foreign investors‚ SMIC
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SAMSUNG LEARNING POINTS This is a great case dealing with the “big picture/helicopter vision”. It is an ideal case to get us started. Below are the main learning points. There may also be other things you learnt from the class‚ that are not listed here. Think about how you can take some of these learning points back to your own companies and context‚ and apply them. The case teaches us: - about moving from a production/selling orientation to a market orientation. This is really really
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Samsung Electronics is the largest affiliate of Samsung Group- a Korean brand. According to Forbes (2013)‚ it is the 20th biggest company in the world in term of market value. There are a wide range of electronic devices which are provided by Samsung such as refrigerators‚ air conditioners‚ cameras‚ tablets‚ phones‚ especially TVs and smart phones. It has several subsidiaries in over 50 different countries and employs almost 370‚000 people in FY2011 (Samsung‚ 2012). The main market of this company
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How Global Brands Compete – Douglas B. Holt‚ John A. Quelch‚ Earl L. Taylor. In the article the authors have conducted a research in 12 countries with 1800 respondents. The authors have tried to find the perceptions of consumers regarding the global brands‚ the global consumer segments and have suggested the business leaders regarding new opportunities and responsibilities in global arena regarding global brands. The authors have found out the perceptions regarding the global brands and have
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superiority of Samsung over its competitors exceeded 51 per cent! The cost advantages related to raw materials may be explained by better negotiated agreements with suppliers (perhaps due to the larger volumes of purchases – comp. Fig. 5) and possibly less shipping and distribution costs that stem from the fact that Samsung’s fab facilities are geographically collocated (while competitors’ facilities are spread world-wide). In terms of labour productivity only Chinese SMIC outperformed Samsung‚ but that
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Samsung Electronics Co.‚ Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor‚ telecommunication‚ digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2008 consolidated sales of US$96 billion. Employing approximately 164‚600 people in 179 offices across 61 countries‚ the company consists of two business units: Digital Media & Communications and Device Solutions. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands‚ Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs‚ memory chips‚ mobile phones
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Capital Structure : Samsung and Intel 1 | | Samsung Electronics | | Intel | | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | Assets | 32‚035 | 24‚105 | 29‚178 | | 28‚880 | 31‚471 | 43‚849 | Liabilities | 27‚386 | 19‚016 | 16‚004 | | 9‚585 | 8‚094 | 11‚314 | Shareholders’ Equity | 4‚649 | 5‚089 | 13‚174 | | 19‚295 | 23‚377 | 32‚535 | | | | | | | | | Debt/Equity | 5.89 | 3.74 | 1.21 | | 0.50 | 0.35 | 0.35 | Debt/Capitalization | 0.85 | 0.79 | 0.55 | | 0.33 | 0.26 |
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Case Study – The Gobal Brand Face-Off Introduction With a value of $1.1 billion Espoir Cosmetics belongs to the best known cosmetic companies in the world. Natasha Singh‚ the executive vice president and global marketing officer proposes to associate Espoir’s new summer line with the launch of Supreme Studio’s second Diana’s She Devils movie. Espoir’s chairman and CEO‚ Ed Johnson‚ is not sure if this would be a good approach since a global brand strategy has not been used so far and consequences
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UNIV. MERCU BUANA STUDY CASE MARKETING MANAGEMENT Samsung Electronics Company : Question for Study Case discussion: 1. What are the ingredients of SEC’s corporate turnaround strategy? What are the implications for marketing mix policies? 2. How strong is the Samsung brand? Can Samsung pass Sony and become a top ten global brand? 3. As Chief Marketing Officer‚ what are Kim’s role and responsibilities? 4. What does Samsung (and Kim) have to do to become one of the top ten brands in the world Answer:
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Initially mobile market in Pakistan was dominated by Nokia. However Samsung has overtaken Nokia and Apple with successive launching of smart phones and become successful in capturing the major portion of smart phones market in Pakistan. In order to collect information for identifying reasons of consistent increase in Samsung Smartphone’s popularity in Pakistan a survey has been conducted. Population consists of all the users of Samsung smart phone live in Pakistan. In this study non-probability sampling
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