Marketing Analysis : Samsung Company

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).

Apple and Samsung are the major competitors in the smartphone field. We would, like to discuss why they’re leading and conclude which one is better. In the electronic industry these two companies fight are considered as the highest massive ever. They mainly clash for brand image and brand reputation but any consequences regarding this fight, the impact should be faced by both these companies in terms of brand reputation loss and also the loss of huge amount of money over the litigations We would like to discuss the following,

Samsung Electronics is a South Korean multinational electronic company with headquarter located in Suwon, South Korea. According to Forbes (2016), Samsung is the world’s second largest information technology company with $177 billion in revenue. Samsung is 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, Nokia, and HTC (About Samsung, n.d.). Samsung has been the world’s largest television manufacturer since 2016 and the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones and smartphones since 2011 through its Samsung Galaxy line of devices (Garside, 2013). However, the primary focus for this discussion will be the distribution strategies for its Galaxy S series smartphones.

Samsung is a South-Korean company and its headquarters is in Samsung Town, Seoul (Samsung, 2014). Samsung is made up of 80 companies together. At present Samsung branches exists in 61 countries. Samsung is one of the world 's leading manufacturer in the Android mobile (smart) phone industry. Samsung after releasing the smart phones in the name of Samsung galaxy series which started with Galaxy Y basic model. Later Samsung released S series which got overwhelmed response all around the world. On 24 February 2014 Samsung released Galaxy S5 which was an immediate and quick successor after Galaxy S4 the previous model. When designing the Galaxy S5 Samsung worked on the drawbacks of the previous models and improved camera quality, running speed, finger print reader, private mode, dust and water resistance (Andrew, 2014). In this analysis I have researched and proved that Samsung organization used Integrated marketing and communications on basis of their target audiences, message strategy and media choices.

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.

Samsung is a company that is founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938, and this company is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company where their headquarters is located in Seoul. Samsung is a group that had expanded into many areas such as food processing, textiles insurance, securities and retail. However, after a few years, Samsung decided to enter the electronics industry in 1969, where their first product was a small black and white television. In 1990s, the company grew into an international corporation where they mainly concentrated on three areas, electronics, engineering, and chemicals (Mathew). Nowadays, Samsung is one of the best mobile phone corporation in the market, where the company decided to give their Samsung electronics motto that has always tried to inspire the world, and create the future from expanding their brand in the following years (Muhammad). From looking at the Samsung SWOT marketing analysis, I can definitely see that Samsung was one of the excellent company where they have lots of strengths and weaknesses. Three of the main strengths that the company has, Samsung was the world number one marketer of mobile phone where they were part of the world biggest market share in the second quarter of 2015 by 21.4%. Not only that, but Samsung has very remarkable research and design capabilities, which was one of their biggest strengths where they were able to generate and demonstrate Samsung pay, a payment app with very identical abilities to apple pay.

Samsung products range from mobile devices, TV, audio and video, home appliances, cameras, PC and peripherals and print solutions (Samsung 2014). This essay will predominantly look closely at Samsung’s mobile phones market.

A primary marketing issues and problems Samsung has is that one of their phones, Galaxy S7 exploded and by doing so the company started to lose some of its market share and mindshare. Also, Samsung does not own its own platform like Apple and Google. Samsung is just a phone version of Dell.

Samsung is a South Korean electronics Company that sells phones, laptops, computers and TV. They are a business that work in the private sector, they have no government input. Samsung design and makes their own products, this can include, Samsung wave, Samsung Galaxy launched, Samsung

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd is Korean international business, productions a wide-ranging of product; involves computers, mobile phone, digital TVs etc. Main fear of company is that it completely depends on

Samsung was founded in 1969 in Suwon, Korea. Since then it has become a global leader in information technology, with more than 200 subsidiaries under its belt. The firm deals in electronics ranging from televisions, refrigerators, monitors, washing machines, tablets and smartphones. Moreover, Samsung provides electronic components, for instance, non-memory semiconductors and Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM). Even though the company has been rocked with misfortunes in its mobile telecommunication platforms, it promises quality products and services that lead to better and smarter lifestyles. The company is at the forefront of championing for ground-breaking innovations true to its mantra and vision 2020 of ‘Inspiring the World, Creating the Future’ (Samsung Electronics, 2017).

Company Background: Samsung is a South Korean multinational company those starting its business as a small trading company and right now becoming world largest corporation. The company deals with its business in several sectors such as advance technology, finance, petrochemical, semiconductors, plant construction, skyscraper, medicine, fashion, hotels, chemical and others. The company was established in 1969 in Suwon, South Korea and known globally for its electronic products (Kelly, 2011). The company is manufacturing several latest technologies, electronic appliances such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops, TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners, washers and other products. The company runs its operations and sales its products in 61 countries with approx 160,000 employees in all over the world (SAMSUNG, 2014). Moreover, the company acquired the position of the world biggest IT maker in 2009 by beating the Hewlett-Packard (HP) previous leader. Its sales revenue in the segment of LCD and LED is the highest in the world. Furthermore, Samsung also becomes world leader in the segment of tablets, mobile phones and gadgets.

After a little over a decade since its establishment, Samsung, who was once a small business focusing on exporting perishables is now one of the biggest manufacturing company in the world that revenue of over $167 Billion. From an economic perspective, as technology changes – becoming more efficient, it gives other companies the ability to compete in manufacturing the products. As the electronics industry continues to grow, more companies are competing with Apple. As of today, Samsung is one of the largest competitors to Apple. Both companies are trying to win the technology market, especially smartphones since they launched their own line of smartphones – Samsung Galaxy in June 2009 and the iPhone in June 2007.

The key product streams for Samsung in regard to the mobile device global marketplace are its range of smartphones and mobile tablet devices it introduced in 2009 (Anon 2013). The established dominant player in this market at the time was Apple with their IPhone (Hughes 2013). In order for Samsung to attain any degree of success in this market it would have to provide

Although it took Samsung some time before getting into the smartphone business, in 2011 the company came in with the introduction of its Android based Galaxy smartphones. The company was still able to catch up more than anyone else to match up with Apple. Instead of recreating Apple’s products the iPhone, Samsung used another dimension to position its product by differentiating with features, larger screens and aggressive marketing campaigns. Samsung was willing to spend more on research and development in order to be able to produce exactly what consumers