Samsung
Samsung, since 1938! Established as a trading company and became a brand that is well known at every corner of the Earth. Starting food processing, textiles, insurance, securities, and retail in the first 30 years, the company had entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s, followed by shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s.
Samsung Electronics
Just after entering the electronics industry, Samsung diversified into various fields including Samsung Electronics, which is one of the world’s information technology companies + consumer electronics makers + chipmakers in terms of revenue, as well as Samsung Heavy Industries, Samsung Engineering, and Samsung C&T Corporation. Aside from this, Samsung also has some notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Everland, and Cheil Worldwide.
The birth of “Galaxy”
At the beginning of this century, Samsung opened a development center in Warsaw, Poland. Before moving into digital TV and smartphones, the company began work with set-top-box technology. Later on, the smartphone platform was developed with the help of partners that was officially unveiled with the original Samsung Solstice lineup of devices and other derivatives in 2008 that was later formed as the Samsung Galaxy line of devices such as Galaxy Note and Galaxy Edge.
