[ 知識分享 ] SAMSUNG "三星"公司 的歷史

三星(SAMSUNG)集團介紹

Samsung Group (Korean: 삼성그룹 / Samseong Geurup / [sam'sʌŋ gɯ'ɾup], informallySamsung) is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered inSamsung Town, Seoul.
Samsung produces around a fifth of South Korea's total exports and its revenues are larger than many countries' GDP; in 2006, it would have been the world's 35th-largest economy.The company has a powerful influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture, and has been a major driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River".


Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include 
Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company measured by 2011 revenues),
Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's second-largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues),
Samsung Engineering
Samsung C&T (respectively the world's 35th- and 72nd-largest construction companies).


Other notable subsidiaries include
Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th-largest insurance company),
Samsung Everland (the oldest theme park in South Korea)
Cheil Worldwide (the world's 19th-largest advertising agency measured by 2010 revenues).


History

1938 to 1970

In 1938, Lee Byung-chull (1910–1987) of a large landowning family in the Uiryeong county came to the nearby Daegu city and founded Samsung Sanghoe (삼성상회), a small trading company with forty employees located in Su-dong (now Ingyo-dong). It dealt in groceries produced in and around the city and produced its own noodles.

Samsung diversified into many areas and Lee sought to establish Samsung as an industry leader in a wide range of enterprises, moving into businesses such as insurance, securities, and retail. Lee placed great importance on industrialization, and focused his economic development strategy on a handful of large domestic conglomerates, protecting them from competition and assisting them financially. He later banned several foreign companies from selling consumer electronics in South Korea in order to protect Samsung from foreign competition.

In the late 1960s, Samsung Group entered into the electronics industry. It formed several electronics-related divisions, 

1970 to 1990

In 1980, Samsung acquired the Gumi-based Hanguk Jeonja Tongsin and entered the telecommunications hardware industry. Its early products were switchboards. The facility were developed into the telephone and fax manufacturing systems and became the centre of Samsung's mobile phone manufacturing. They have produced over 800 million mobile phones to date. 

In the 1980s, Samsung Electronics began to invest heavily in research and development, investments that were pivotal in pushing the company to the forefront of the global electronics industry. 

1990 to 2000

Samsung started to rise as an international corporation in the 1990s.Samsung's construction branch was awarded a contract to build one of the two Petronas Towers in Malaysia, Taipei 101 in Taiwan and the Burj K halifa in United Arab Emirates.

In 1993, Lee Kun-hee sold off ten of Samsung Group's subsidiaries, downsized the company, and merged other operations to concentrate on three industries: electronics, engineering, and chemicals. 

Samsung became the largest producer of memory chips in the world in 1992, and is the world's second-largest chipmaker after Intel.

In 1995, it built its first liquid-crystal display screen. Ten years later, Samsung grew to be the world's largest manufacturer of liquid-crystal display panels.

Compared to other major Korean companies, Samsung survived the 1997 Asian financial crisis relatively unharmed. However, Samsung still manufactures aircraft engines and gas turbines.

2000 to present

Samsung Techwin has been the sole supplier of a combustor module of the Trent 900 engine of the Rolls-Royce Airbus A380-The largest passenger airliner in the world- since 2001.

Samsung Electronics overtook Sony as one of the world's most popular consumer electronics brands in 2004 and 2005.Samsung has overtaken Apple to become the World's Largest Smartphone maker.

In 2010, Samsung announced a 10-year growth strategy centered around five businesses. One of these businesses was to be focused on biopharmaceuticals.

In December 2011, Samsung Electronics sold its hard disk drive (HDD) business to Seagate.

更詳細內容請參考「WIKI」

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung#1990_to_2000
三星集團 官方網頁-公司歷史
http://www.samsung.com/tw/aboutsamsung/corporateprofile/history06.html

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