Samsung : Bigger than Google+Microsoft+RIL;They Built Burj Khalifa & Twin Tower

Samsung Built Burj Khalifa & Petronas Twin Tower

If you are using Samsung product then feel proud to know these fact that you are a customer of Bigger organisation than  Apple,Google or Microsoft.

Samsung HQ-Seoul , South Korea . Lets start the story from the origin.

• Founder

Byung Chul lee - He started Samsung trading corporation with 40 employees & trading in dried fish,noodles & groceries.

Steps towards world class corporation :

1. Sugar refinery
2. Wollen Mill
3. 1960- Electronics 1st product was black and white TV
4. 1980-Telecommunication ( acquired Hanguk Jeonja Tongsin)
5. 1987- Lee died   Separated in 1) Samsung group 2) Shinsegae Group ( discount stores,Departmental stores) 3)CJ group (Food/chemical/logistic/Entertainment) 4)Hansol Group ( paper/Telecommunication)
6. 1990- Construction Bsiness
7. 2008- Galaxy series in Mobile
8. 2010-Computer Programming

Now Hold the Breath, Ride started..!

Samsung Techwin - Manfacturing defence weapons,areonatics,chemicals, petrochemicals ( Total Petrol France based)

 

Samsung Electronics- Air conditioners, computers, digital televisions, liquid crystal displays,Mobile phones

Samsung Engineering- construction of oil refining plants; upstream oil and gas facilities; petrochemical plants and gas plants; steel making plants; power plants; water treatment facilities

Samsung Everland- Samsung Everland covers the three main sectors of Environment & Asset, Food Culture and Resort.

Samsung Fine Chemicals

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance-Accident insurance, automobile insurance, casualty insurance, fire insurance, liability insurance, marine insurance, personal pensions and loans.

Samsung Heavy Industries- Bulk carriers, container vessels, crude oil tankers, cruisers, passenger ferries, material handling equipment steel and bridge structures

Samsung Life Insurance- Individual life insurance and annuity products and services

Samsung Machine Tools- Samsung Machine Tools of America is a national distributor of machines in the United States.

Samsung Medical Center-

The Samsung Medical Center consists of a hospital and a cancer center. The hospital is located in an intelligent building with floor space of more than 200,000 square meters and 20 floors above ground and 5 floors underground, housing 40 departments, 10 specialist centers, 120 special clinics and 1,306 beds.

The 655-bed Cancer Center has 11 floors above ground and 8 floors underground, with floor space of over 100,000 square meters. SMC is a tertiary hospital manned by approximately 7,400 staff including over 1,200 doctors and 2,300 nurses. Since its foundation, the Samsung Medical Center has successfully incorporated and developed an advanced model with the motto of becoming a "patient-centered hospital", a new concept in Korea

Samsung SDI- TV cathode-ray tubes in two cartels, also builds lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles such as the BMW i3, and acquired Magna Steyr's battery plant near Graz in 2015

Samsung Securities

Samtron- maker of computer monitors and plasma displays 

Shilla Hotels and Resorts- five-star hotels in Korea and abroad as well as into the restaurant business. Hotel Shilla promises to be a globally prestigious hospitality company that offers the best value for money by making creative innovations and continuously taking on challenges.

Some Lesser Known Mind Blowing Facts.

1)Working with Royal Dutch Shell-

Samsung Heavy Industries will be the sole provider of liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facilities worth up to US$50 billion to Royal Dutch Shell for the next 15 years.

2)Working With United Arab Emirates government

A consortium of South Korean firms, including Samsung, Korea Electric Power Corporation and Hyundai, won a deal worth $40 billion to build nuclear power plants in the United Arab Emirates.

3)Working With Ontario government

The government of the Canadian province of Ontario signed off one of the world's largest renewable energy projects, signing a deal worth $6.6 billion for an additional 2,500 MW of new wind and solar energy.

4)Shell unveiled plans to build the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) platform. In October 2012 at Samsung Heavy Industries' shipyard on Geoje Island in South Korea work started on a "ship" that, when finished and fully loaded, will weigh 600,000 tonnes, the world's biggest "ship". That is six times larger than the largest U.S. aircraft carrier.

5)Samsung built Burj Khalifa and many more

6)Samsung Motor sold to Renult

7)Largest Single foreign investor in US ( Samsung Austin Semicondutor Texas)

9)Till 2017 they sold more than 800 million mobile phones.(80 CRor)

Compare Yourself:-

 

Company	Total Revenue(US$)	No.Employees
Microsoft	89.95 billion (2017)	80,110 (2017)
Apple	229.234 billion (2017)	123,000 (2017)
Alphabate(Google)	110.85 billion (2017)
RIL	66 billion (2018)	250,000 (2017)
General Motors	148.588 billion (2017)	180,000 (December 2017)
Samsung	305 billion (2014)	489,000 (2014)

There is so much to tell about Samsung and now you will find pride to carry a Samsung products. 

Thank You.