Samsung Electronic
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Formerly called
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Samsung Electric Industries (1969–1988) |
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| ISIN | KR7005930003 |
| Industry |
Consumer electronics Semiconductors Home appliances |
| Founded | 13 January 1969 |
| Headquarters | Samsung Digital City, Samsungno 129, Maetan-dong, Yeongtong District, Suwon, South Korea |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Lee Kun-hee (Chairman) Lee Jae-yong (Vice Chairman) Kwon Oh-hyun (Vice chairman and CEO) |
| Products | See products listing |
| Revenue |
 ₩239.58 trillion (224.64 Billion USD) (2017) |
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₩53.65 trillion(50.32 Billion USD) (2017) |
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₩42.19 trillion(39.56 Billion USD (2017) |
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| Total assets |
₩301.75 trillion(282.96 Billion USD) (2017) |
| Total equity |
₩214.49 trillion(201.14 Billion USD) (2017) |
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Number of employees
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308,745 (2017) |
| Parent | Samsung Group |
| Subsidiaries |
Samsung Medison Samsung Telecommunications Harman International |
| Website | samsung |
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Footnotes / references |
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korean: 삼성전자; Hanja: 三星電子 (Literally "tristar electronics")) is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Suwon, South Korea. Through having an extremely complicated ownership structure with some circular ownership, it is the flagship company of the Samsung Group, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012. Samsung Electronics has assembly plants and sales networks in 80 countries and employs around 308,745 people. It is the world's largest information technology company and chipmaker by revenue. As of October 2017, Samsung Electronics' market cap stood at US$372.0 billion.
Samsung has long been a major manufacturer of electronic components such as lithium-ion batteries, semiconductors, chips, flash memory and hard drive devices for clients such as Apple, Sony, HTC and Nokia. It is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones and smartphones, started with the original Samsung Solstice and later fueled by the popularity of its Samsung Galaxy line of devices. The company is also a major vendor of tablet computers, particularly its Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab collection, and is generally regarded as pioneering the phablet market through the Samsung Galaxy Note family of devices. Samsung has been the world's largest television manufacturer since 2006, and the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones since 2011. It is also the world's largest memory chips manufacturer. In July 2017, Samsung Electronics overtook Intel as the largest semiconductor chip maker in the world.
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