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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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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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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Samsung: Building a Great Brand Presented By: Michael Baccus‚ Marcial De Castro‚ Judith Dupin‚ Monica O’Neil‚ and José Santillán Marketing Management- MAR 3023-P80 October 5‚ 2011 Samsung grew its brand equity by 186 percent in just five years from 2000 to 2005. “Brand equity is the value of the brand name‚ its worth as an asset to the company
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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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Financial report : Introduction : The first Samsung’ Smart Tv has been launched in 2010 and because of this reason‚ we can’t provide a financial report of 3 years. On the other hand‚ the use of smart tv’s financial reports are really restricted and you have to buy the book ¨Global Smart TV Market (2011 – 2016) Critical Capability‚ Use Case Analysis & Forecast By Accessories‚ Platforms‚ Middleware‚ Application & Geography¨ that provide all the informations about different companies
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The battle between Apple and Samsung that defined a Smartphone generation. Since‚ the establishment of a brand called “IPhone” which is a high-end cell-phone which was unveiled in 2007. Furthermore‚ it was the one and only Smartphone in the market. In 2009‚ Samsung the Apple’s supplier made a shocking device that is similar to Apple’s IPhone called “Samsung Galaxy” which started a war that will never end. (Kurt Eichenwald‚ 2014). After the betrayal from Samsung to Apple which made it seek redemption
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