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=== Chemical industries ===
=== Chemical industries ===

Revision as of 12:39, 20 October 2010

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LG Corp
LG 법인
Company typePublic (KRX: 003550)
IndustryConglomerate
Founded1947 in Busan, South Korea
HeadquartersSouth Korea Seoul, South Korea
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Koo Bon-Moo, (Chairman & CEO)
Yu Sig Kang, (Vice Chairman & Co-CEO)
Juno Cho, (EVP, COO, & Director)
ProductsElectronics
Chemicals
Telecommunications
RevenueIncrease $104.3 billion (115 trillion KRW) (2008)[1]
Number of employees
177,000 (2008)[2]
SubsidiariesLG Electronics
LG Display
LG Telecom
LG Chem
WebsiteLG.com

LG Corp Korean: LG 법인) is South Korea's second largest conglomerate that produces electronics, chemicals, and telecommunications products and operates subsidiaries like LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Telecom and LG Chem in over 80 countries.

LG Corp founder Koo In-Hwoi established Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp. in 1947.[3] In 1952, Lak-Hui (pronounced "Lucky", currently LG Chem) became the first Korean company to enter the plastics industry. As the company expanded its plastics business, it established GoldStar Co., Ltd., (currently LG Electronics Inc.) in 1958.

Goldstar produced South Korea's first radio. Many consumer electronics were sold under the brand name GoldStar, while some other household products (not available outside South Korea) were sold under the brand name of Lucky. The Lucky brand was famous for its line of hygiene products such as soaps and Hi-Ti laundry detergents, but most associated with its Lucky and Perioe toothpaste.

In 1995, to better compete in the Western market, the company was renamed "LG", the abbreviation of "Lucky Goldstar". More recently, the company associates the letters LG with the company tagline "Life's Good". Since 2009, LG also owns the domain name LG.com.[4]

Companies

File:GoldStar Logo.svg
GoldStar logo, prominently used before the introduction of the LG logo.
TV LG Time Machine 2

Since 2001, LG has two joint ventures with Royal Philips Electronics: LG Philips Display and LG.Philips LCD, but Philips sold off its shares in late 2008.[5] Also LG has entered into a joint venture with Nortel Networks and has created LG-Nortel Co. Ltd. LG has a joint venture with Hitachi, Hitachi-LG Data Storage, which manufactures optical data storage products like DVD-ROM drives, CD writers, etc. LG has owned the LG Twins baseball club since 1989. LG acquired American television manufacturing company Zenith in 1999.

Associated companies

Group families

Electronics industries

Chemical industries

Telecommunications and Services

References

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