Friday, January 23, 2009

Annual profit fell by a quarter of Samsung.

KommentariiVseobschaya optimizatsiya22.01.2009IT companies have begun to publish the financial crisis otchetyPribyl Samsung in 2008 amounted to 5.5 trillion won (about four billion dollars), representing a 26 percent lower than a year ago, reports said IDG News with reference to these financial statements the company.
South Korean company's revenues in 2008 increased by 15 per cent to 73 trillion won (about 53 billion dollars). In the last quarter of 2008, Samsung lost 22 billion won (15 million dollars).
Samsung's revenues in the fourth quarter of 2008 amounted to 18.5 trillion won (about 13.5 billion dollars). A year ago, Samsung quarterly revenue amounted to 17.5 trillion won (about 12.5 billion dollars).
The main reason for falling profits Samsung has been lowering prices for memory and LCD panel. Thus, the semiconductor unit of revenue for the quarter fell by 18 per cent unit LCD panels - at 12 percent.
Samsung demonstrated a mobile unit dvuhprotsentny growth against the backdrop of a five reducing the market. Last year Samsung sold about 200 million phones, but the average price of mobile phone has dropped by ten percent.

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