Samsung Corporation

Headquarters location: Samsung Plaza, 263 Seohyeon-dong, Bundang-gu Songnam, Kyonggi 463-721 Tel. 82-2-3706-1114 Job offers, investor relations: www.samsungcorp.com

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« ETHICAL » RATING OF SAMSUNG , group Samsung Group and subsidiaries [?] 3 Labor: 3 violation(s) of fundamental labor rights 3 Delinquency: 3 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency 5 Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 5 offshore financial center(s) 160 Sales: more than 160 billion(s) dollars/euros in annual sales 18 Net profit: more than 18 billion(s) dollars/euros in cumulated net profit since 1998 3 Influence: 3 act(s) of direct corruption or lobbying Full profile >>>
Relevance: business & market share year business source 2007 In 2007, the sales of Samsung abroad represented more than 20 % of total exports of South Korea. AFP 2006 Samsung is the world's biggest maker of memory chips and televisions. Internatio. 2006 Third-largest cell phone maker in the world, Samsung sells 12,5% of the cell phones bought in the world. Capital 2006 Samsung sold 118 million mobile telephones in the world. Capital 2005 Samsung sells 10% of the digital audio players bought in the world. Capital 2004 Samsung makes 22,5% of the LCD screens bought in the world Les Echos 2003 Samsung sells 15% of the flat-panel TVs bought in the world. Les Echos World locations & Manufacturing country incentive : address & contact : production type source   Manaus :   Suzhou :   Huijou :   Tianjin : Samsung Gulf Electronics FZE, P.O.Box : 61247 Jebel Ali & 04-813335 : Dubai Samsung Corp : Samsung Hong Kong Ltd :   Seremban :   Samsung Nigeria Co Ltd : Samsung America Inc (Panama) : Star World Corp Ltd : Paseo de Roxas, Makati City Manila : The map of tax haven, secret accounts and shell companies Samsung is managed by year name photo position; compensation source 2002Chong-Yeul, Pae Chief Executive Officer; 2002Sung-Ha, Chi Chief Financial Officer; 2000Myung-Kwan, Hyun Chief Executive Officer; 1998Kun-hee, Lee Chief Executive Officer; Highest paid executives in 2007 Advertising & marketing year dubious practice : image source 1998 ad budget: 127 million US$; Advertisin. 1997 ad budget: 227 million US$; Advertisin. Dubious practices in 2007

Made by year employees <> social impact : country source 2001 4164 Layoff plans and labour conditions in 2007 Influence year purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source 2007 Kim Yong-chul, Samsung’s former chief in-house lawyer and a prosecutor before that, has contended that Samsung stashed away a $217 million dollars slush fund. He said it was created with company money, hidden in dummy stock and bank accounts in the names of executives, including his own, and used to bribe politicians, prosecutors and journalists, and even to finance an art collection for the chairman’s family. : translate New York T. 2000 : Lee Kun-hee : amount: 5800 thousand US$ : president Roh Tae-woo translate Financial . 2000 Prevent binding environmental regulations (environmental protection through economic growth, self-regulation and free trade) : WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) : : United Nations translate Corporate . Influence in 2007 Financials year financial misdemeanor sales income source 2008 The president of the South Korean group Samsung was accused, Thursday April 17, of tax avoidance and breach of trust. Lee Kun-hee will remain in freedom until the behaviour of the lawsuit just as its nine fellow accused. The investigation was launched in January after the charges carried by an old framework of the legal direction of Samsung, according to which leaders would have constituted a black case of more than 200 million dollars (125 million euros) to corrupt senior officials. If it finally exonerated Samsung of the charges of corruption, the prosecutor said to have put to the day an organization within the group intended to dissimulate several billion dollars of credits and to transfer to the children from Lee a part of the cases of the group.     AFP 2005 Samsung has agreed to pay a $300m fine after admitting it participated in a huge international price-fixing conspiracy in the market for D-Rams between 1999 and 2002.     Financial . 2001   24.74 0.02   billion US$ Financial delinquency in 2007

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