Japan's Mitsui Group or South Korea's Samsung Group, which has stronger comprehensive strength?

Some people think that Samsung can definitely crush the existence of Mitsui. After all, many people don't know Mitsui at all. You may know Mitsubishi, but you seldom know Samsung. However, some people think that Mitsui is the real imperial form, and Samsung is not qualified to mention shoes in front of it.

Know mitsui

Maybe you know Mitsui Hisashi, but do you know Mitsui? Mitsui Group is one of the four monopoly chaebols in Japan, which was developed by the chaebol ruled by Mitsui family. For a long time, it has been the first of the four chaebol in Japan.

Say a few names to know the power of Mitsui, such as Toyota, Toshiba, Sony, Sakura Bank and so on. From finance-chemical industry, heavy machinery-automobile-semiconductor and so on.

What you may not know is that 1993, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ranked first among the top 500 companies in the world, and now it ranks 157:

Its subsidiary Toyota is currently ranked tenth:

Toshiba is 37 1:

Mitsui's strength is not a collection of all enterprises, but its enterprises are scattered. Why is it scattered? Because the tree attracts the wind, in order to hide the strength, the finances of each subsidiary are independently accounted for.

How does Samsung compare with it?

In fact, if we simply compare some Mitsui enterprises now, it may not be as good as Samsung. Samsung, also known as one-fifth of South Korea's GDP, is an inevitable enterprise for Koreans all their lives.

Samsung has now entered all the Fortune 500 companies:

The combined income may only be equivalent to that of Toyota Group. It can be seen that Mitsui can't compare with Samsung if it is not split. Although Samsung is powerful, it is not as powerful as Mitsui, who made a fortune!

Speaking of Samsung Group, it is estimated that everyone knows that the business of Samsung Group is all over the world, and both the mobile phone business and the chip business are the first in the world. Many electronic products used by people are closely related to Samsung Group. Even if Samsung brand products are not directly used, many electronic products may use chips or other components of Samsung Group.

But when it comes to Mitsui Group in Japan, it is estimated that many people are not familiar with it, but this does not hinder the existence of Mitsui Group as a giant. At present, Mitsui Group is one of the largest chaebols in Japan, with a wide range of businesses and businesses all over the world.

But strictly speaking, Mitsui Group is not a group organization in the legal sense, but an informal organization, which is organized informally by large enterprises whose interests and financial structure are related.

If you have to compare Samsung Group with Mitsui Group, then Samsung Group is definitely no match for Mitsui Group. We will learn through the industry and members of both.

Samsung Group is the largest consortium in Korea, with 85 companies and several other legal entities. Nearly 300 legal institutions and offices have been established in nearly 70 countries and regions, with a total of more than 200,000 employees. Its business involves electronics, finance, machinery, chemistry and other fields, among which the more representative enterprises are as follows:

1, Samsung Electronics, ranked among the world's top 500 companies in 20 18 12, with operating income of 2119.42 million USD and profit of 36.575 billion USD. Samsung's pillar industries are only semiconductors and mobile phones, and the sales of mobile phones and chips rank first in the world.

2. Samsung Life Insurance ranked 42 1 in the world's top 500 in 20 18, with an operating income of 28.272 billion US dollars and a profit of 0 1035438+0 billion US dollars.

3. Samsung products, ranked 458th in the world's top 500 companies in 20 18, with an operating income of 25.9 billion dollars and a profit of 566 million dollars.

In addition, Samsung has other companies. In 20 18, the overall revenue of Samsung group was about $320 billion and the profit was more than $30 billion.

Mitsui & Co., Ltd.' s current business scope includes domestic trade, import and export trade and entrepot trade of automobiles, steel, textiles, machinery, chemicals, energy, electronic information, grain, oil and food, non-ferrous metals and light industrial building materials. 1993, mitsui products ranked first in the world's top 500, and in the following 10, they were basically ranked in the top 500. After 2003, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. independently accounted for the energy sector and other important industrial institutions, and established independent legal person companies around the world. Subsequently, Mitsui Group's ranking in the world's top 500 declined rapidly, but in fact, its industry is very large, and it can become the first in the world's top 500 by taking out the consolidated financial statements of several companies, but it is relatively low-key. Let's look at the members of Mitsui Group and see how great it is.

Let's start with the real Mitsui Group.

As we all know, Mitsui generally refers to Mitsui Group, with total assets of at least 36 trillion yen and nearly 240,000 employees. The core members are 24 monopoly enterprises, including 2 banks, 2 insurance companies, 65,438+05 industrial and mining enterprises, 65,438+0 trading company, 65,438+0 department store, 65,438+0 real estate industry and 2 transportation enterprises, among which Mitsui Bank, Mitsui Property and Mitsui Real Estate Company are the three pillar enterprises of the consortium.

1, Mitsui Co., Ltd., Mitsui Co., Ltd. is the largest comprehensive trading company in the world. The business scope includes steel, textile, machinery, chemical industry, energy, electronics and information, domestic trade, import and export trade and entrepot trade of grain, oil and food, non-ferrous metals and light industrial building materials. In 20 17, the operating income was USD 4,465,438 +0.5 billion, ranking 246th among the top 500 companies in the world.

2. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, formed by the merger of Sumitomo Bank, the core bank of Sumitomo Group, and Sakura Bank of Mitsui Group, is currently the third largest financial institution in Japan. In 20 17, the operating income was USD 52.026 billion, ranking among the top 500 in the world 192.

Look at the other members of Mitsui Consortium.

From the legal organization, what we listed above is Mitsui Group, but in fact the industry of Mitsui Group is not that simple. At present, Mitsui Group has many independent members.

1, Toyota Many people know that Toyota is awesome and is the largest automobile manufacturer in the world at present, but many people don't know that Toyota Group is also a member of Mitsui chaebol. In 20 18, Toyota Group had four Fortune 500 companies, among which Toyota's automobile revenue was US$ 26,565,438+0 billion, ranking sixth in the world, and its trade revenue was US$ 58.58 billion, ranking 18 in the world. In other words, only one Toyota group's revenue will reach more than 400 billion US dollars, which can completely defeat Samsung Group.

2. Sony Group: Sony is a global pioneer in audio-visual, video games, communication products and information technology, a global pioneer in portable digital products, one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic products, one of the three giants in the world's video game industry, and one of the six major film companies in Hollywood, USA. 20 17 earned $771150,000, ranking 500 million in the world.

Toshiba is the largest semiconductor manufacturer and the second largest integrated motor manufacturer in Japan. Its business covers digital products, electronic components, social infrastructure equipment, household appliances and so on. In 20 17, the operating income was USD 35.63 billion, ranking 326th among the top 500 companies in the world.

4. Panasonic Group (which also owns Sanyo). At present, Panasonic Group has more than 230 companies and more than 290,493 employees around the world. Its business covers household appliances, digital audio-visual electronics, office products, aviation and so on. In 20 17, the operating income was $72.045 billion, ranking 165438 among the top 500 companies in the world.

There are many enterprises owned by Mitsui Consortium, so I won't list them one by one. In a word, Mitsui Consortium's industry is very huge, and Samsung Group is not an order of magnitude with Mitsui Consortium at all.

Two companies that are not on the same level! Mitsui & Co., Ltd. owns more than 1 100 well-known enterprises with different business ideas! First of all, let's learn about Mitsui products! Look back and make a comparison at a glance!

Mitsui's business philosophy is not manufacturing, but people. Of course, its value cannot be measured by financial statements. 1979, Kang Hong, then president of Mitsui Corporation, promoted the "rds" movement, mainly to restore Mitsui's career to "people", eliminate bureaucracy and organize "people's Mitsui" with people as the center!

1993, Mitsui ranked first among the top 500 enterprises in the world. Its subsidiaries include Toyota, Toshiba, Sony, sumitomo mitsui banking corporation, Mitsui Merchant Shipping, Mitsui Shipbuilding, Ishikawa Island Broadcasting and Grinding Heavy Industry, Mitsui Department Store and many other heavyweight enterprises. Mitsui is dismissive of Fortune 500 companies, and there are many Fortune 500 companies in the Mitsui consortium system. The affiliated companies with its shares extend to the top camps of Siemens, General Motors and Ericsson in the world!

Mitsui Koryo founded Mitsui Property in 17 1 1 year. 1868, the Mitsui family provided funds for subversive forces, and it was the great hero of the Meiji Restoration who became the political and business Mitsui. Mitsui family and Meiji government supported and used each other, which promoted Japan's economic and social development. 1876, Mitsui family opened the first private bank-Mitsui Bank, and established the largest Mitsui property company in Japan!

During the Anti-Japanese War, Mitsui's companies all participated in providing material support for the Japanese invaders. When the rise of Mitsui's products, which had actively promoted Japanese aggression against China, was closely related to the bloody and humiliating disaster suffered by China, which of Mitsui's 1000 enterprises could continue to develop in China? This is the fundamental reason for Mitsui to separate its subsidiaries and economically!

Foreign countries are amazed at China people's forgetfulness of history and betrayal of their ancestors. Who would be surprised not to know that it is not China people who forget history, but that they are unable to touch it? The same Japanese company produced tanks, cannons, planes, gas bombs, chemical and biological weapons and so on during the invasion of China! Mitsui hiding himself from you is not without this factor! On strength, Mitsui is awesome!

Here is a brief introduction to 44 Samsung companies. Founded in 1938, the company initially engaged in the vegetable and fruit business!

1950, sugar, pharmaceutical, textile expansion, set up a family business! First Sugar Company was founded in 53 years, Samsung Insurance was founded in 58 years, Samsung Hospital was founded in 68 years, Samsung Electronics was founded in 69 years, and refrigerators were mainly sold in 80 years. In 78, Samsung Semiconductor was founded and began to export color TV business. In 1983, 64K DRAM was developed, which only serves Korea! Samsung ranked 15 in the global top 500! Total assets are $6,543.8+$073.957 billion.

The data may be inaccurate, for comparison only!

Hello, first of all, let me give you an overview of the two consortia you mentioned:

Mitsui Consortium: At present, there are 25 large enterprises. Among them, Mitsui Bank, Mitsui Property and Mitsui Real Estate Company are the three pillar enterprises of the consortium. Its core enterprises include Sakura Bank, Mitsui Property, New Prince Paper, Toshiba, Sony, Sanyo, NEC, Toyota, Mitsui, Toray, Mitsui Real Estate and so on. The consortium has advantages in chemical industry, heavy machinery, integrated motors, automobile manufacturing, real estate, nuclear power generation, semiconductors, medical care and office electronic equipment. According to JPMorgan Chase's data, the valuation of its large enterprises is about $422.6 billion (of course, this does not include the market value of the major companies under the Toyota Group).

Samsung Group: It is the largest enterprise in Korea and a multinational enterprise group. Samsung Group includes many international subsidiaries, including Samsung Electronics, Samsung Products, Samsung Life and Samsung Airlines. Its business involves electronics, finance, machinery, chemistry and other fields. Samsung Electronics is its largest subsidiary. At present, it is the second largest mobile phone manufacturer and the largest electronic enterprise in the world. Samsung Group is a family business, and the Li family is hereditary. All its Samsung industries are family businesses, managed by other family members. The current team leader has been passed on to the third generation of Lee. The total market value of all its large enterprises is about $320 billion.

Therefore, from the rough calculation of the market value of the major enterprises under the two consortia, Mitsui Consortium, which has a longer enterprise history, is dominant, and from the perspective of the proportion of GDP generated by the country, there is no doubt that Samsung accounts for a quarter of South Korea's GDP output value. There is a saying that South Korea will not let Samsung go bankrupt for its own economic development. I hope my answer will satisfy you. Thank you.

Everyone knows Samsung Group. This is a very powerful enterprise, because it has great influence in Korea, so it is called Samsung and China. It has many subsidiaries, the most famous of which is Samsung Electronics. Of course, in addition to Samsung Electronics, Samsung Group also has two Fortune 500 companies, namely Samsung Products and Samsung Life Insurance.

Mitsui Group may not be heard by many people. Unlike Samsung Group, Mitsui Group is not a formal enterprise organization. Simply put, Mitsui Group is not a legal entity, but an informal organization of some large enterprises with related interests and financial structure.

There are many companies named after Mitsui in Japan, including Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Mitsui Products. But they are not subsidiaries of Mitsui Group, but independent legal persons. As I said just now, Mitsui Group is not a formal legal entity, but an informal organization.

The same is true in Japan and South Korea. Many chaebol groups have grown up in economic development. In South Korea, Samsung Group is the largest chaebol in the country. In Japan, Mitsui Group is one of the four chaebol.

Before World War II, Mitsui Group was indeed an enterprise. It was after World War II that the United States reformed Japan and split Mitsui Group, so many independent companies appeared, including Mitsui Bank, Mitsui Property and Mitsui Real Estate.

South Korea's chaebol has not split, but has been growing since the war. At present, Samsung Group has 85 subsidiaries, as well as countless Sun companies and great-grandchildren companies.

But in fact, Samsung Group and Mitsui Group have a historical origin. Because for a long time, the Korean peninsula was a Japanese colony. So Japan transplanted it to the Korean peninsula through the capitalist system. Samsung Group was created by imitating Mitsui Group. Otherwise, how can these two countries be so similar in chaebol economy?

One is a student and the other is a teacher. Who do you think is stronger? Of course, Mitsui Group is better than Samsung Group.

Some people say that South Korea's Samsung has surpassed Mitsui Consortium, probably because Mitsui Consortium has been too low-key in recent years.

Mitsui Consortium is one of the largest consortia in Japan. Total assets account for a large part of Japan's total GDP, with the focus on holding 24 monopoly enterprises. Pay attention to monopoly and comprehensive trading company forms (from nuclear energy to eggs ...)

Most people are familiar with the main companies owned by Mitsui & Co.:

Toyota Motor Nippon Steel Sony Toshiba Epson Olympus

Mitsui Shipbuilding Mitsui Bank Mitsui xx ... and so on

Mitsui takes the share of the most upstream resource enterprises in the industrial chain as lubricant, and obtains the advantage of controlling the price of resource products for a long time, which generally does not exceed 10%. At the same time, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. has further consolidated this advantage with its huge logistics and trade network. This path has been copied to the maximum extent on the map of Mitsui Empire, covering almost all conceivable industries.

Whether it is raw materials, middleware or end goods, Mitsui plays a "behind-the-scenes pusher" role in all production, trade and logistics links, pushing its subordinate companies and affiliated enterprises to the front of the stage, constantly expanding the market, resources and territory, and seeking to maximize profits, while hiding himself, much like the king in the "shadow empire".

Mitsui's business strategy is to stand behind the enterprise like a shadow, use its abundant capital, developed trade system and rich resources to promote the development of the enterprise and penetrate into every corner of the world microeconomic. Mitsui empire is hidden behind all kinds of enterprises, large and small, by breaking up the whole into parts.

Besides, South Korea's Samsung Group, Samsung's real housekeeping industry is Samsung Electronics, which really cares about semiconductors and displays.

As for other odds and ends-what real estate, buildings, military industry, home appliances, insurance and the like are even more jokes, which are not worth mentioning at all. It just increased the revenue of Samsung Group, which didn't help Samsung's strength. The strength of a group lies in its strength, not in its size. Insurance, mining, real estate, property management and other service industries. These industries are just the fat of Samsung Group's income.

What we are talking about is the strong part of Samsung Group, that is, Samsung Electronics, in which Samsung semiconductors and monitors are the real housekeeping. As for the mobile phone, it is really powerful. The only military-quality smartphone in the world is like a Grenade. The explosion of note 7 shows the whole world that you Korean companies should not eat too ugly. The competition between capitals is fierce, but people like South Korea who are so utilitarian that they will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals really don't know what face is. The decline in three to five years is foreseeable.

To sum up, Samsung Group is a big company in South Korea, a world consumer electronics giant, and a first-class and second-class company in the information industry.

People always think that more is bigger and stronger, and Samsung Group, a subsidiary supported by the United States, has become a belief?

There is a trade war between the two countries. If your product or service can become a bargaining chip for your home country to blackmail the other country, then you must be strong and non-negotiable.

On the contrary, you become the hostage of the other side threatening your motherland. How can I be strong?

Samsung is a Korean multinational group company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. Including many subsidiaries and affiliated enterprises, most of them are Samsung brand alliance, which is the largest chaebol (business group) in Korea.

Samsung's industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company, ranking fourth in terms of market value based on 20 12 revenue), Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's second largest shipbuilding company based on 20 10 revenue), Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (the world's 13 and 36th largest construction companies, respectively). Other noteworthy subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (14, the world's largest life insurance company), Samsung Everland (the operator of Everland, Korea's oldest theme park) and Chef Worldwide (15, the world's largest advertising agency based on 20 12 revenue).

Samsung has exerted a strong influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture, and has become the main driving force behind the "Hanjiang Miracle". The output of its subsidiaries accounts for about one-fifth of South Korea's total exports. Samsung's revenue is equivalent to 17% of South Korea's GDP of $0.082 billion.

Mitsui Group is a loose consortium composed of independent Japanese companies. It is a trading company formed by the merger of Mitsui businesses of a huge family enterprise, including cement, petrochemical, commerce, construction, energy, engineering, finance and insurance, food, machinery, mining, non-ferrous metals, real estate and shipping. Are all major companies large multinational companies, headquartered in Tokyo or not? Saka people, and have offices and subsidiaries overseas; Some people have joint ventures with foreign companies.

The main members are Mitsui Co., Ltd., Mitsui Chemical, Mitsui Engineering Shipbuilding, Mitsui Real Estate, Mitsui Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd., Mitsui OSK Series, Sumitomo Mitsui Insurance Group, Mitsui Life Insurance Company, Mitsui Factory Cable Holding, Mitsui Mining and Metallurgy, Japan Unisys, JA Mitsui Leasing, Isetan Mitsui Holdings, Chemical Industry, Prince Paper Company, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and other sumitomo mitsui banking corporation and Japanese air technologies.

Other companies closely related to Mitsui include Sony, Ito Yokado, Sagami Railway, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Kanebo (Kao Company), Oriental Land, Toyota Group, Komatsu Co., Ltd., Vale (Mining Company), Rio Tinto Group, BHP Billiton, Yamaha, Ma Yang and Analog Metal Management Company-Mitsui Company owns the company 18. They cross-hold shares because of business cooperation.

Most members of Mitsui Consortium are independent rather than subordinate. They form trading companies because of business cooperation, so as to better carry out business cooperation. Mitsui consortium is definitely large in total, but they are not a concept at all and cannot be compared.

As the largest consortium in South Korea, with the rise of South Korea's economy in recent years, Samsung has overwhelmed traditional Japanese electronics giants such as Sony, Panasonic and Canon, especially Samsung Electronics, the flagship enterprise of the Samsung consortium, and has occupied the first place in the fields of smart phones, flat-panel TVs and semiconductors around the world. Samsung Electronics is well-deserved as the first technology enterprise in Asia.

However, it is still too early to say that Samsung has surpassed Japanese enterprise groups, and it is estimated that Samsung itself dare not boast of such Haikou.

The strength behind the Japanese consortium is unfathomable. The six chaebol, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Fuji, Sanhe and dai-ichi kangyo bank, control 60% of total assets and operating income in Japan, which is similar to that of the four Korean consortia. However, after all, the Japanese chaebol has a history of hundreds of years, and its industrial layout is wide and far-reaching, far exceeding that of the Korean chaebol. Take Mitsui as an example. On the surface, you don't see much influence, but if you uncover the mystery of Mitsui, you will find the real strength of this consortium.