1. A Look into Samsung
By Sharmin Ahmed

2. Samsung’s Beginnings
With thirty thousand Korean Won, Byung-Chull Lee opened Samsung on March 1st 1938 in Taegu, Korea. Around the late 1960s, Samsung entered the electronics industry and in the mid 1970s, it began construction and shipbuilding industries. After the death of Byung-Chull Lee in 1987, his company was divided into four business groups- Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group. Recently Samsung has  begun construction on building the world's largest mobile phone factory in the Thai Nguyen province of Vietnam.

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Byung- Chull Lee
How Samsung looked in 1938

4. Products
At first Byung-Chull Lee’s business primarily focused on  trade export, selling dried Korean fish, vegetables, and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing. Samsung no longer sells dried fish, fruits or vegetables like it used to instead it sells mobile phones, home appliances, televisions, cameras and camcorders, computing electronics like PC and monitors. Last but not the least accessories like phone cases, tablet cases and television accessories.

5. Before After Fruits and vegetables
One method of drying fish. Other method- just lay the fish
on ground
Fruits and vegetables

6. Areas Served
Samsung is a nationwide company. It is found all around the world. There are approximately one hundred ninety-six countries in the world today. The following slide lists some countries where Samsung is located in.

7. Angola
Botswana
Madagascar
China
Japan
North and South Korea
Macedonia
Ukraine
United Kingdom
10. Argentina 11. Brazil 12. Mexico 13. Egypt 14. Iran 15. Saudi Arabia 16. Canada 17. United States of America

8. Financial Information
Revenue is the amount of money that is brought into a company by its business activities. Samsung’s revenue from 2012 was 201,103,613 Korean Won (millions of KRW), this equates to 187,754,283 USD (thousands of USD) and CAD as of October 15th. If Samsung were a country, it would probably be listed in between Czech Republic and Kuwait.

9. Subsidiaries
Samsung is made up of several other companies referred to as subsidiaries. Subsidiaries are companies controlled by a holding company; a company that buys and possesses the shares of another company. Samsung’s subsidiaries are: Electronics, Machinery and Chemicals, Financial Services, Trade and Services and Affiliated Organizations.

10. Interesting Facts
Samsung means “three stars.” It is named by Byung-Chull Lee, whose vision was for his company to become powerful and everlasting like stars in the sky.
Samsung was ranked as the ninth most valuable global brand on the 2012 Interbrand Top Global Brand list.
Samsung is investing $.8 billion between 2009 and 2013 to reduce eighty-five million tons of greenhouse gas.

11. Samsung headquarter in Samsung Town

12. Evolution of Logos
Samsung Group logo. It is used from the late 1980s until replaced in 1992.
Samsung Group Logo. This logo was used from the late 1969s until replaced in 1979.
The Samsung Electronics logo, used from late 1980 until replaced in 1992.
Samsung's current logo, in use since 1993.

13. Bibliography

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