10 Mind Blowing Facts About Samsung

No 1.Samsung has been around since 1938. The Samsung Group is made up of 80 different businesses.

No 2.There are 100 Samsung TVs being sold in every minute.

No 3.Samsung spent over $4 billion in advertising last year, plus an additional $5 billion in marketing. Its ad budget dwarfs everyone else.

No 4.Samsung accounts for 17 percent of Korea's Gross Domestic Product.

No 5.Samsung has a weight division shipbuilding industry. To support vessel industry, Samsung even has a shipyard area of 4 million sq ft.

No 6.Samsung's construction division built the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, which stands 2,722 feet tall in Dubai.

No 7.The first-ever Samsung company, Samsung Sanghoe, launched in 1938 as a grocery trading company. It employed 40 workers, who made their own noodles.

No 8.The Galaxy Note 10.1 uses more than 4 million pixels and has up to 64 GB in external memory capacity. Its battery can play music for more than 120 hours.

No 9.To make sure the best quality products, 90% of the company’s products are manufactured in Samsung’s own factories.

No 10.The name of the company “Samsung” means “three stars”. It was chosen by the founder Lee Byung-chull with the hope for his company to develop in scale and power like stars in the sky.