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profile of SAMSUNG Electronics
SAMSUNG Electronics work hard to be ‘a leading company of digital convergence innovation’ considering stockholders, employee, customers and local community including the production base. We will do our best to complete our responsibility for management for customer and stockholders, making a great workplace, and a corporation citizen.
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overview
SAMSUNG Electronics being a integrate electronic product company covers Semiconductor, Telecommunication, and Digital products. We have 26 Production bases, 38 Sales bases, 2 Distribution bases and 15 R&D centers in 55 countries worldwide as of now late 2005. Plus, we have integrate system for 8 countries overseas like North America, Europe, China, South-East Asia, South-West Asia, South America, CIS, Middle East and Africa. As a global corporation, differentiated R&D development, marketing and service for every country have been made. Headquarter is located in Korea founded in 1969, Digital product comes from Suwon, Gwangju complex, Semiconductor comes from Giheung, Hwaseong, Onyang plant, LCD comes from Giheung, Cheonan, Tangjeong plant, Telecommunication comes from Gumi plant. Korea-based firm employs total 137,000 people worldwide, 90,000 in the nation and 47,000 overseas.
ownership structure
Shares of SAMSUNG Electronics are owned by more than eighty thousand shareholders. As of the end of 2005, over 80% of total shares are owned by institutions, and over 50% are owned by foreign institutions. Major domestic and foreign shareholders are as follows.
- Domestic : SAMSUNG Life Insurance(6.28%), SAMSUNG Corporation(3.48%), Kun-Hee Lee and others, CEO of SAMSUNG and others(3.03%), National Pension Service(2.84%), SAMSUNG Fire & Marine Insurance (1.09%)
- Overseas : Citibank N.A.(11.03%), NTC-GOV SPORE(1.85%)
* Citibank N.A. is our DR Depositary.
| company goes public | June 11, 1975 |
|---|---|
| DR issuance |
May 17, 1991: First issue of preferred stocks (Luxembourg Stock Exchange) June 27, 1995 : First issue of common stocks (London Stock Exchange) |
| total stocks issued (as of 2005) |
(as of 2005) 170,132,764
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Major Business partners
DELL, Fusitsu, GE, HP, IBM, Intel, Legend, Sony, Sun Microsystem, Toshiba and so on (in alphabetic order)
