Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a South Korean multinational electronics company.  It is headquartered in Suwon, South Korea and is the flagship subsidiary of the Samsung Group. Also, it was the world's largest technology company by revenues from 2009 to 2012.1  Samsung Electronics, which has assembly plants and sales networks in 61 countries, employs around 221,000 people.

Samsung Electronics is the world's largest mobile phone maker according to 2011 unit sales and the world's second-largest semiconductor chip maker according to 2011 revenues (after Intel Corporation). It has been the world's largest television manufacturer since 2006 and the world's largest maker of LCD panels for eight consecutive years.

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