You all maybe think that Samsung is a company which manufacture smartphones, TVs, Refrigerator and things like that. NO, In real Samsung is much more than that. Samsung is not a company, its a group of companies and today you’ll find out how much big Samsung actually is.
1. The world’s tallest skyscraper building Burj Khalifa, The 4th tallest Taipei 101 are actually built by Samsung C&T Corporation (A subsidiaries of Samsung Group).
2. Samsung Electronics is world largest IT company by revenue and employs more than 3,70,000 peoples.
3. Samsung Heavy Industries (A subsidiaries of Samsung Group) is the 2nd largest ship builders after Hyundai.
4. Samsung’s revenue was equal to 17% of South Korea’s nominal GDP.
5. Samsung’s Group total revenues is nearly equal to revenue of Google, Apple and Microsoft combined. YES I SAID “COMBINED”
6. Samsung had a car manufacturing subsidiary called Samsung Motors which later become subsidiary of Renault after Asian financial crisis, although Samsung maintains a minority ownership.
7. Samsung’s Group employs nearly half a million people around the world.
8. Samsung comprises around 80 companies with activities in areas including construction, chemicals, electronics, medical, telecommunication equipments, Advertising, ship building and many more.
9. Samsung’s CEO Lee Kun-hee is one of the richest person in the world with estimated net worth of $12.6 billion and is 41st most powerful person in world.
10. Samsung and its affiliates produce around a fifth of a fifth of South Korea’s total exports (South Korea’s is world’s fifth largest exporter with more than $628 billion of export which is nearly double of what India export).
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