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Samsung Electronics is major Korean technology conglomerate. The brand is broadly known for consumer electronics, but the world wide business includes other business lines.

1 Business units
2 Financials
3 Competition
4 Concepts
5 Trading on stock exchanges

[edit] Business units

Samsung has six business lines including

Digital media business

This business line includes the very successful TV-set business but also DVD-players, printers and mp3-players

Telecommunication network business

The telecommunication division includes mobile phone devices (in 2006 118 million mobile phones were sold by Samsung, which makes it number three world wide). Further products include telecom network devices as servers and routers for IP telephony and mobile telephony (WiMAX) and other telecom equipment.

Digital appliance business

This includes refrigerators, air conditioning, washing machines, micro waves etc.

Semiconductor business

The semiconductor business includes RAM-modules for different usages including DRAM, SRAM, flash memory and LCD driver IC.

LCD business

Samsung is the leading provider of LCD monitors, they provide the full range of LCD panel sizes, including LCDs for notebook PCs, LCDs monitors, LCD TVs, large LCD panels for other usage as well as small LCDs for mobile devices.

Corporate technology operations(CTO)

The Corporate Technology Operations is responsible for the strategy of the technological future of Samsung Electronics. It leads the R&D activities at the corporate level including the mid-/long-term R&D direction and strategies for overall operations, the optimization of process and systems to enhance R&D efficiency company-wide and the developing shared technologies related to software and production.

[edit] Financials

Income Statement (in trillions of KRW)	2004	2005	2006
Sales	81,963	80,630	85,426
Operating Profit	11,761	7,575	9,008
Net Income	10,790	7,640	7,926

Balance Sheet (in trillions of KRW)	2004	2005	2006
Total Assets	69,005	74.462	81,366
Total Liabilities	32,604	32,854	33,426
Shareholders’ Equity	36,400	41,607	47,940

Cash Flows (in trillions of KRW)	2004	2005	2006
CF from Operating Activities	16,744	13,329	15,081
CF from Investing Activities	(8,183)	(9,046)	(11,098)
CF from Financing Activities	(9,639)	(3,266)	(3,889)

[edit] Competition

Major competitors to Samsung include Nokia (NOK), LG Electronics, Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V. (PHG), Motorola (MOT), Xerox.

[edit] Concepts

The business of Samsung is influenced by the following Concepts: Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD, 3G, Growth of Home Entertainment Sector, iPhone, LCD, Mobile Phone Adoption in Developing Countries, Mobile Phone Usage in China

[edit] Trading on stock exchanges

Unfortunately the Samsung stocks are not traded on any US Exchange. Home market is the Korean Exchange. Samsung global depository receipts (GDRs) are traded on some European Exchanges including London and Frankfurt.

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