It has to be said that Samsung’s smart phone’s current market share in China has fallen so severe that the top five are not able to squeeze in. This is indeed terrifying. Although the proportion of mobile phones in Samsung’s entire business is particularly small, the proportion in the Chinese market is still quite large. In particular, the Note 7 explosion directly affected all their domestic businesses, at least associating Samsung’s brand with explosions. .
Samsung's Chinese employees mad decline: mobile phone business is suppressed by domestic mobile phone
According to the "Korean Herald" report, Samsung Electronics released the latest data show that at present its total number of employees is 308,745, which is 5.2% lower than the previous year's 325677. Among them, the most serious layoff is in China, and the number of Samsung employees in China currently. It was 37,070 people, a decrease of 17.5% from 44948 in the previous year.
Regarding the reduction of employees in China, the report mentioned that the implementation of corporate restructuring in Samsung China and other Asian countries is the main reason for the decline in the number of overseas employees. As of the end of last year, Samsung had 2,468 business partners worldwide, and retained 238 major production facilities, 53 distribution centers, 34 R&D centers, 7 design centers, and 73 service centers.
The most thorny issue currently facing Samsung China is how to sell more smart phones in order to increase the domestic market share. As a difficult brother, Apple is in a very difficult situation. Huawei, OV and Xiaomi are in front of them, but fortunately they are This year has iPhone 8.