The Marketing Strategy Of Samsung

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In George Orwell’s novel published in 1945 “Animal Farm”, A dislikable character named Napoleon presents greed, power, corruption and manipulation. These traits are all linked together. Napoleon, who represents Joseph Stalin from the Russian revolution, emerges as a corrupt opportunist and antagonist straight from the beginning of the novella. Napoleon doesn’t show any interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself but rather the strength of his power and domination over it. Just like Joseph Stalin after the death of Lenin.

Samsung expanded their product base into four different industries; appliances, phones, home entertainment, and cameras, and within these product lines, there are hundreds of variations. This shows weakness in the company, as they are not able to focus on their competition in all production categories. In their cell phone line, Samsung has failed to create their own operating system and software, instead using the Android system like many of its competitors. Samsung is unable to control the quality of the software and loses out on a higher profit margin if they created their own OS and software.

This study seeks to examine the market structure and strategy of Samsung Company analyzing its micro-environmental level as well as SWOT analysis. In this regard, it is worth pointing out that Samsung is a well-established company. It manufactures different electronics products including home appliances and smartphones. It has been on the market since 1969. Its electronics division has 169 subsidiaries and affiliates, which are divided into three to include Consumer Electronics, Information Technology & Mobile Communications, and Device Solutions division (Samsung 2016, 2). In this precept, consumer Electronics focuses on advanced technology, exclusive design and significant offers for presenting new products such as TV, Refrigerator, Air Conditioner, and Medical equipment among other products. Information Technology & Mobile Communications division, on the other hand, produces mobile handset and customer friendly communication products. The Device Solutions in the same dictum division focuses on display pane and semiconductor products. The company has grown globally, and establishes outlets in different parts of the world, including the U.K.

There are many competing brands of smart phones and Samsung has reported a decline of profits in 2014. Information from GSM arena shows than Samsung released 54 new phone models in 2014 , compared with 24 by HTC , 11 Motorola and 2 by Apple, leading to increased production costs and lack focus on a specific customer segments thereby losing some of its competitive advantage (GSM Arena , 2015).The lack of popularity of its own OS (Tizen ) and dependence on Google’s Android platform makes it vulnerable on google to develop an “ecosystem”. There are component integration issues as well as loss revenue from potential App sales (Strategic Mangement insight , 2015). Negative publicity from litigation due to patents are likely to continue as technology patents are vague and Samsung with is large portfolio is likely to infringe on some of the patents (Tibken, 2014).

With all the changes and devlopment in market and technologies, Samsung has a respected top position within them. Its products have not only from the finest products but the strategies practiced within its organization is a good example of a hard driven company with remarkable strategies and approaches. Samsung succeeded in concerning the technology market. Its styles in senior marketers affected the innovation by pushing its participations and involving its employees in the process of development of the

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As per the data released by market research firm Strategy Analytics, Samsung’s latest smartphone Galaxy S III aced as the world’s top-selling smartphone model in the third quarter ended year 2012.Samsung, also announced that Galaxy S III sales reached the 30 million unit milestone and according to market research alone, 18M of those were shipped in Q3 2012. For the same period, Apple shipped around 16.2M iPhone 4S handsets. It’s was after this incident, Samsung made Apple slipping into the No.2 spot as the top smartphone vendor for the Q312 period.

Critically analyze & discuss the Strategy adopted by Samsung to achieve Global Completive Advantage. (500 words)

“Now they 're in consumers ' consideration set. After Sony, they have the potential to be the No. 2 brand globally.” -Jan Lindermann, Global Director for Brand valuation, Interbrand in 2001.

The Samsung Group is South Korea's largest company or chaebol and the world's second largest conglomerate by revenue, leading several industries in the world. It is composed of numerous international businesses, all united under the Samsung brand, including Samsung Electronics, the world's largest electronics company, Samsung Heavy Industries, one of the world's largest shipbuilders and Samsung Engineering & Construction, a major global construction company. These three multinationals form the core of Samsung Group and reflect its name - the meaning of the Korean word Samsung is "tristar" or "three

This report contains three sections. First part will analyze and evaluate the dynamics and trends in the smartphone industry and the strategic implications to Samsung

Android has grown exponentially from merely 4 percent of the market in 2009 to 66 percent of the market in 2012, according to Gartner. Samsung is Apple’s main competitor, but also Apple’s sole supplier of application processor that is required for the iPhone to function which gives Samsung the ability to charge a higher premium for their application processor. A key opportunity Apple can acquire is obtaining patents and merging into different markets to create their own application processor, as their contract with Samsung expires in 2014.

• Samsung is very scattered; it controls and operates different products while its competitors use their resources and effort on one segment only. Diversification takes a lot of effort and attention.