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...easy for Katsuhiko Machida, the president of Sharp Corp., to look back and laugh now, given that he's running Japan's hottest electronics company. But for years he was despondent, wondering if Sharp would forever be overshadowed by giants like Sony, Matsushita and Samsung. When he ran Sharp's television business in the 1980s, Machida says the firm had trouble competing because it didn't manufacture the most important TV component, the cathode-ray tube. Forced to cobble together parts bought from competitors, Sharp was essentially an assembler, cranking out televisions that were always a little too expensive...
...Likewise, in his core business of manufacturing LCDs, Machida is playing to Sharp's technological strengths instead of diversifying into areas where it's doomed to defeat. Taking on Goliaths like LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics across every LCD product line would be suicide, he says. They're dominant, for example, in mass-market LCD panels used in smaller, cheaper TVs and in laptops. Rather than engage them in a murderous price war, Sharp concentrates almost exclusively on ever-larger TVs or on small, high-quality panels found in cell phones, car navigation systems, and hand-held game players like...
...million Value of a five-year sponsorship deal between London's Chelsea Football Club and South Korean electronics giant Samsung, the biggest in British soccer history
After discussing U.S.-Japan trade problems with Keijiro Murata, Minister of International Trade and Industry, lacocca went to South Korea, where he announced a joint venture with Samsung, a conglomerate that makes everything from ships to electronics. The Samsung-Chrysler operation will produce auto parts and components in Korea for export to the U.S. Both the Japanese and Korean deals underscored Chrysler's policy of not building subcompact cars in the U.S. entirely on its own. The company will now be relegating at least part of the job to foreign companies to keep costs down. ELECTRONICS Sony Complicates the Picture...
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