Clarence Powell Liberty University MMGP Background Information BUSI520 – Group 3 November 4, 2012 Samsung Galaxy S3 Introduction In this paper we shall explore The Traditional 4P’s which are, product place, promotion and price; while also examining and understanding the new 4P’s on which we have today: -people, processes, programs, and performance – while determining which is more effective for future business and long term success for the company. We will analyze Samsung Electronics and provide information regarding the company’s background and its newest product: The Samsung Galaxy S3. Galaxy S3 Description From caveman to modern man is a phrase in which we can use to describe our …show more content…
To this date Samsung are dedicated to the 3G industries. Making video, camera phones at a speed to keep up with consumer demand. Samsung has made steady growth in the mobile industry and are currently second but competitor Nokia is ahead with more than 100% increase in shares. (http://www.samsung-mobiles.net/history-of-samsung.html) The Traditional 4Ps The product of the traditional 4Ps is the Samsung Galaxy S3. The price of the smartphone is $199 on SPRINT when purchased with a two-year contract and $549 when purchased the phone straight up. Promotions include online discounts; commercial adds online, television, radio, or word of mouth. Places would include Internet and in stores for targeted locations. The New 4Ps The new 4Ps of marketing are people, processes, programs, and performance. The people include people who are interested in smart phones. Processes are their and its strong deliver of research and the way they present their product for development. The programs would be apps, and games. The performance Samsung has made more than a billion in sales last year. Demographic and Economic Trends & the Samsung Galaxy S3 There has also been a rise in numbers on purchases of non contract phones considering that contract phones have been could go up or down in prices depending on the company. Samsung is presenting itself in any category it can because this promotes success for the company. Being able to sell
There is need to consider several things when we talk about operations and future of a business. Expanded through a minor export business in Daegu, Korea, Samsung has emerged as one of the prominent corporations in electronics around the globe (Samsung, 2015). Samsung has major emphasis on electronic appliances and digital media, memory, system integration, and semiconductors. At present, Samsung has always created innovation through top quality practices and products that are accepted around the global. This paper will present SWOT analysis and Porter model of five forces for Samsung and propose the opportunities to increase profitability and competitiveness. This paper also comprises a
Utilizing its vertical integration, it is able to keep the costs down while also coming out with highly innovative and differentiated products, through massive spending in R&D. Samsung’s expertise in voice/data convergence, wired, wireless communications and core network technologies has produced a family of ground-breaking business communications solutions that are redefining the rules of the game. The brand loyalty is reasonable in the mobile handset market and so it can be said that switching costs for customers are reasonable. In this sense, for Samsung, it is possible to differentiate the product, switching costs for customers are reasonable, and there is huge potential for cost reduction from economies of scope.
Over the mid-year, Apple was offering a little more than half of the worldwide premium cell phones, and Samsung was offering just shy of 25%. By December 2016, those figures had developed to 70% and 17%, separately” (Richardson, 2017).
The core competencies of any firm is to satisfy the customer needs and preferences so that it can gain more returns. This is achieved through change of business strategies to those which enable the firm become competitive through exploitation of core competencies in the individual products and services. Such strategies place a firm in a leader position in the industry it operates in relation to competitors as well as the five competition forces. To maximize profitability and boost competitiveness in the mobile phone and Smartphone industry, Apple and Samsung should employ strategies that ensure that they reach more consumers in the emerging markets.
“We always keep on pace with the demand of our end customers, delight them through continuing maintain a close relationship between manufacturing, ongoing Research and Development as well as working closely with supply chain and outsourcing partners, to provide cost-effective, high-quality Smart phone, wireless devices and software to our customers, internationally. Constant Training and Development program and strong culture practices are held to motivate the employees, also, to ensure infinite innovation and creation come out from them. Most importantly, offer attractive
In the modern world of technology, many different companies are attempting to secure their own ground in a particular market. Many companies work in many tech fields & some company focus on software, some on mobile phones, others on television but one of the most recognizable names in the technology field is that of Samsung.
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.
With its smart phone Samsung has achieved a status symbol for its customers. It gives good and fast services. Thus in the marketing mix of Samsung the product portfolio is one of the strongest point of it.
In the year of 1990s Samsung has expanding and globalizing their business especially in electronic, particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, have become its most important source of income. Samsung have been operating over 50
In today’s society the cell phone market is a huge competitive industry for cell phone companies. There have been studies that show that half the world has cell phone accounts. One attribute that defines the cell phone market is the idea of consumers is giving up their land line phones. This has caused a large influx of customers into the market for cell phones. As technology continues to advance, a variety of cell phones are developed and marketed to different areas across the nation. Cell phones are available for business and
The Samsung galaxy s3 is the world’s most popular smart phone model, holding 10.7% of the global
The first industry change is that Samsung has begun to dominate the smart phone industry, gaining a 46 percent share in the last quarter if 2012 (Brandon, 2013). Apple will have to make some changes or Samsung's dominance will continue.
Operation- After releasing OnePlus 3, ‘The best value for money smartphone’ for this year, OnePlus surprisingly decided to announced the upgraded version of OnePlus 3 which is OnePlus 3T just after five months after they released it (Chakraborty, 2016)
Samsung is one of the world’s premium electronics manufactures. The estimated value of Samsung brand had risen from US$6.37 billion in 2001 to US$10.85 billion in 2003. A major factor behind this impressive growth had been Samsung’s effort to redefine itself as a vendor of cutting-edge, “gee-whiz” consumer technology. Samsung believed that repositioning the brand is a vital to the company’s future success.