SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of smartphones, said Wednesday its global brand value exceeded US$50 billion this year, citing an annual survey of brand management firm Interbrand. This year, Samsung was again ranked as the seventh-most-valuable global brand with a value of $51.8 billion, up 14 percent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Genesis’ brand value has improved significantly since Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s No. 1 carmaker, launched it anew as a separate premium vehicle brand late last year, a report showed Wednesday. Brandstock, a South Korean market research firm that determines the rankings of local brands, said in its latest [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. ranked seventh in the world this year in terms of brand value, a global consultancy report showed Monday. According to the annual report compiled by Interbrand, Samsung Electronics came in seventh for this year, with its brand value estimated at US$45.3 billion. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Sweden’s furniture giant IKEA will open its first store in Korea on December 18 in Gwangmyung, a residential town located in the southern outskirts of Seoul. Earlier on November 13, the company launched a Korean website and showed off more than 8,000 items on sale and their prices. As the [...]