SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. outlined its mid- and long-term goals at its analyst day event this week, promising to become one of the world’s top-three electronics companies by 2010.
The company also said it would more than double its 2004 sales revenues by 2010, and would have 20 No. 1 market-share products in the world by 2010, up from its current eight. Samsung said it hopes by 2007 to be a top-three company in the world in terms of new patent holdings. In semiconductors, Samsung aspires to achieve $61 billion in sales by 2012.
The company also said it aims to become a leading producer of all-in-one mobile phones in the information technology sector. Samsung is today the world’s third-largest mobile phone vendor in terms of handsets shipped.