LG Electronics

LG Electronics Inc.
Company typePublic
ISINUS50186Q2021
IndustryConsumer electronics
Home appliances
Computer hardwares
PredecessorGoldStar (1958–2002)
Founded
  • October 1958; 66 years ago (1958-10) (as GoldStar)
  • March 1995 (1995-03) (as LG Electronics; re-incorporated in 2002)
FounderKoo In-hwoi (The original GoldStar)
HeadquartersLG Digital Twin Tower 128, Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo District, Seoul, South Korea
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Kwang-Mo Koo (chairman)
  • Jo Seong-Jin (vice chairman and CEO) (acting)
  • Jung Do-Hyun (president and CFO)
  • I. P. Park (President and CTO)
ProductsSee products listing
RevenueIncrease 83.5 trillion (2022)[1]
Decrease ₩3.6 trillion (2022)[1]
Increase ₩1.9 trillion (2022)[1]
Total assetsIncrease ₩55.15 trillion (2022)[1]
Total equityIncrease ₩22.5 trillion (2022)[1]
OwnerLG Corporation (33%)
Number of employees
75,000+ (2022)[2]
Websitelg.com

LG Electronics Inc. (Korean엘지 전자; RRElji Jeonja) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea. LG Electronics is a part of LG Corporation, the fourth largest chaebol in South Korea, and often considered as the pinnacle of LG Corp with the group's chemical and battery division LG Chem. It comprises four business units: home entertainment, mobility, home appliances & air solutions, and business solutions. LG Electronics acquired Zenith in 1995 and is the largest shareholder of LG Display, the world's largest display company by revenue in 2020.[citation needed] LG Electronics is also the world's second largest television manufacturer behind Samsung Electronics. The company has 128 operations worldwide, employing 83,000 people.[3]

History

1958–1960s

GoldStar television (VD-191), manufactured in 1966
LG Micro Hi-Fi Audio system, c. 2008

In 1958, LG Electronics was founded as GoldStar (Korean: 금성). It was established in the aftermath of the Korean War to provide the rebuilding nation with domestically produced consumer electronics and home appliances. The start of the country's national broadcasting that created a booming electronics market and a close relationship it quickly forged with Hitachi helped GoldStar to produce South Korea's first radios, televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, and air conditioners.[4] GoldStar was one of the LG groups with a brethren company, Lak-Hui (pronounced "Lucky") Chemical Industrial Corp. which is now LG Chem and LG Household & Health Care. GoldStar merged with Lucky Chemical and GoldStar Cable on 28 February 1995, changing the corporate name to Lucky-Goldstar and then finally to LG Electronics.

1970s–1990s

Goldstar first went public in 1970; by 1976, it was producing one million televisions annually.[5] In 1982, Goldstar opened its first overseas factory, which was based in Huntsville, Alabama. In 1994, GoldStar officially adopted the LG Electronics brand and a new corporate logo. In 1995, LG Electronics acquired the US-based TV manufacturer Zenith and absorbed it four years later. Also in that year, LG Electronics made the world's first CDMA digital mobile handsets and supplied Ameritech and GTE in the US, the LGC-330W digital cellular phone. The company was also awarded UL certification in the US. In 1998, LG developed the world's first 60-inch plasma TV and established a joint venture in 1999 with Philips – LG.Philips LCD – which now goes by the name LG Display. In 1999, LG Semiconductor merged with Hynix.[6]

2000s–present

In order to create a holding company, the former LG Electronics was split off in 2002, with the "new" LG Electronics being spun off and the "old" LG Electronics changing its name to LG EI. It was then merged with and into LG CI in 2003 (the legal successor of the former LG Chem), so the company that started as GoldStar does not exist.

LG Electronics plays a large role in the global consumer electronics industry; it was the second-largest LCD TV manufacturer worldwide as of 2013.[7] By 2005, LG was a Top 100 global brand and recorded a brand growth of 14% in 2006.[8] As of 2009, its display manufacturing affiliate, LG Display, was the world's largest LCD panel manufacturer.[9] In 2010, LG Electronics entered the smartphone industry. LG Electronics has since continued to develop various electronic products, such as releasing the world's first 84-inch ultra-HD TV for retail sale.[10]

On 5 December 2012, the antitrust regulators of the European Union fined LG Electronics and five other major companies (Samsung, Thomson since 2010 known as Technicolor, Matsushita which today is Panasonic Corp, Philips and Toshiba) for fixing prices of TV cathode-ray tubes in two cartels lasting nearly a decade.[11]

On 11 June 2015, LG Electronics found itself in the midst of a human rights controversy when The Guardian published an article by Rosa Moreno, a former employee of an LG television assembly factory.[12]

At the end of 2016, LG Electronics merged its German branch (situated in Ratingen) and European headquarter (situated in London) together in Eschborn, a suburb of Frankfurt am Main.[13]

In March 2017, LG Electronics was sued for its handling of hardware failures with recent smartphones such as the LG G4.[14]

Koo Bon-joon, who was the CEO and the current vice chairman of LG Electronics,[15] was replaced by his nephew Koo Kwang-mo in July 2018 as CEO and vice chairman.[16] The move came after the succession of Koo Kwang-mo as the chairman of the parent company LG Corporation who succeeded his adoptive father and uncle Koo Bon-moo after Bon-moo died of a brain tumor on 20 May 2018.[17]

LG announced in November 2018 that Hwang Jeong-hwan, who took the job as president of LG Mobile Communications in October 2017, will be replaced by Brian Kwon, who is head of LG's hugely profitable home entertainment business, from 1 December 2018.[18] Also in 2018, LG decided to stop smartphone production in South Korea to move production to Vietnam, in order to stay competitive.[19] LG said Vietnam provides an "abundant labor force" and that 750 workers at its South Korean handset factory would be relocated to its home appliance plant.

On 5 April 2021, LG announced its withdrawal from the phone manufacturing industry after continuous loss in the market. In 2020, LG faced a loss of 5 trillion won (US$4.4 billion).[20][21][22][23]

In June 2021, the YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed published a video alleging an attempt by a representative of LG to manipulate the review of one of LG's gaming monitors.[24] The representative, in an email shown in the video, attempts to influence the editorial outcome of the review by indicating testing methods and aspects of the display to be followed by the channel. This came a few months after a similar incident between the creators and Nvidia in which Nvidia warned them that if they continue emphasizing on rasterization rather than ray tracing in Nvidia's graphics cards, they would no longer receive review samples.

As of 1 December 2021, the Chief Strategy Officer William Cho will take over for Bong-seok Kwon as the CEO of LG Electronics.[25]

In June 2022, LG acquired AppleMango, a South Korean EV charger manufacturer with a 60% purchase of the company's stocks[26][27]

In that same month, the American publication Consumer Reports rated LG home appliances as the most reliable in the U.S. consumer market.[28]

In April 2024, a security firm discovered security bugs in tens of thousands of LG smart TV models that could "let hackers hijack them". The vulnerability particularly affects smart TVs running LG's WebOS operating system from version 4 to version 7.[29]

Corporate governance

Shareholder Stake (%) Flag
LG 33.67%
National Pension Service 8.47%
Treasury Stock 0.47%

Logo evolution

COVID-19 response

On 25 December 2021, LG Electronics launched a video campaign showing some of the initiatives the company has taken in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. The video shows how the company has handled the pandemic from the beginning by encouraging good hygiene practices to include social distancing, hand-washing, mask wearing, and using hand sanitizers.[citation needed]

In a strategy to cope with demand for contactless shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, LG Electronics has opened a number of unmanned stores that allow for customers to authenticate themselves at the main entrance, check product information, and purchase products using a mobile phone or QR code. The company operates nine unmanned stores and this will increase to 30 by the end of June 2022. These retail locations are only available in South Korea.[30]

United States headquarters

October 2019 in Englewood Cliffs

In 2013, LG Electronics USA proposed building a new headquarters in the borough of Englewood Cliffs in Bergen County, New Jersey, including a 143 ft (44 m) tall building that would stand taller than the tree line of the Hudson Palisades, a US National Natural Landmark.[31][32][33] The company proposed to build an environmentally friendly facility in Englewood Cliffs, incidental to Bergen County's per-capita leading Korean American population, having received an initially favorable legal decision concerning building height issues.[34] The plan, while approved by the local government, met with resistance from the segments of the general public as well as government officials in New Jersey and adjacent New York.[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] The initial court decision upholding the local government approval was overturned by a New Jersey appellate court in 2015 and LG subsequently submitted a revised, scaled-down, 64-foot building for approval by the borough of Englewood Cliffs in 2016.[43] LG broke ground on the new US$300 million Englewood Cliffs headquarters on 7 February 2017, to be completed in late 2019.[44]

Products

LG Electronics products include televisions, home theater systems, refrigerators, washing machines, computer monitors, wearable devices, solar modules, smart appliances and formerly smartphones.

Televisions

The LG SL9000 was one of several new Borderless HDTV's advertised for release at IFA Berlin in 2009.[45] LG Electronics launched an OLED TV in 2013 and 65-inch and 77-inch sizes in 2014.[46][47] LG Electronics introduced its first Internet TV in 2007, originally branded as "Net Cast Entertainment Access" devices. They later renamed the 2011 Internet televisions to "LG Smart TV" when more interactive television features were added, that enable the audience to receive information from the Internet while watching conventional TV programming.

In November 2013, a blogger discovered that some of LG's smart TVs silently collect filenames from attached USB storage devices and program viewing data, and transmit the information to LG's servers and LG-affiliated servers.[48][49] Shortly after this blog entry went live, LG disabled playback on its site of the video, explaining how its viewer analytics work, and closed the Brightcove account the video was hosted on.

LG manufactures remote control models that use Hillcrest Labs' Freespace technology to allow users to change channels using gestures[50] and Dragon NaturallySpeaking technology for voice recognition.[51]

As of 2014, LG is using webOS with a ribbon interface with some of its smart TVs. LG reported that in the first eight months after release, it had sold over 5 million webOS TVs.[52]

In 2016, exclusively to India, Indian arm of South Korea's LG Electronics Inc started selling a TV that would repel mosquitoes.[53] It uses ultrasonic waves that are silent to humans but cause mosquitoes to fly away.[53] It was released on 16 June 2016. The technology was also used in air conditioners and washing machines.[53] The TV is aimed for lower-income consumers living in conditions that would make them susceptible to mosquitoes.[53]

In 2018, it was reported that LG was planning to sell big-screen televisions that could be rolled up and retract automatically with the push of a button come 2019.[54]

Mobile devices

In April 2021, LG officially confirmed that it will shut down its mobile division.[55][56] Earlier, there had been rumours that LG considered selling its mobile division with Vingroup and Volkswagen named as potential buyers.[57][58]

Other than mobile phones, LG Electronics have also made tablet computers like the LG G series complementing the mobile phones.[59] LG also makes laptop computers in the LG Gram line, and previously under the Xnote line (see List of LG laptops).

Mobile phones

LG G4 range

LG Electronics used to manufacture mobile phones from 1995 to 2021,[60] selling to the domestic market only (as Cyon) until 2000. It was in the shadow of Samsung Anycall[60] but LG made its breakthrough during the mid and late 2000s: it launched its highly popular LG Chocolate in worldwide in 2006 which popularised touch-sensitivity. The following year it released the world's first capacitive touchscreen phone LG Prada, and Shine, cementing its focus on design:[60] its phones during this era have led to LG being called alongside Apple as one of the pioneers of the rise of touchscreens.[61] By 2008 LG had entered the top 3 worldwide leaders in mobile phones.[62]

There was further success with the Cookie which helped to bring touchscreens to the budget market, and with the Lollipop flip phone that became very popular in South Korea.[60] However the company had trouble with competing in smartphones. In 2010, LG released the Optimus smartphone, which would span into a series. The following year saw the release of the LG Optimus 3D, the world's first mobile phone with glasses-free 3D display,[63] and LG Optimus 2X, the first with a dual-core processor.[64] In 2012 LG worked with Google to build the Nexus 4 smartphone.[65]

Other than the G3, LG officially unveiled the curved smartphone, LG G Flex, on 27 October 2013.[66][67] At Consumer Electronics Show in January 2014, LG announced a US release for the G2 across several major carriers.[68] In 2015, LG released LG G4 globally in late May through early June.[69] On 7 September 2016, LG unveiled the V20,[70] and the V30 was announced on 31 August 2017. LG G6 was officially announced during MWC 2017 on 26 February 2017.[71] The G7 ThinQ model was announced at a 2 May 2018 media briefing.[72] In 2020, the LG Wing was introduced with two displays and a swivel design.[64]

In April 2021, after months of speculation, LG confirmed that the smartphone division will be officially shut down in July 2021.[73] The decision to shut down LG Mobile came about from poor sales caused by stiff competition from rival Samsung and Chinese brands such as Oppo and Xiaomi. LG became the first major smartphone brand to completely withdraw from the market.[74]

Smart watches

LG G Watch R

LG and Google announced the Android Wear-based smartwatch, the LG G Watch, that was in June 2014.[75] In August 2014, the LG G Watch R that has a circular face (similar to the Moto 360) was released.[76] The LG Watch Urbane that LG's third Android Wear-based smart watch has released in April 2015. This was the first device to support newer smartwatch features such as Wi-Fi, and new parts of Android Wear's software interface, like the ability to draw emoji to friends.[77]

Rolly keyboard

In 2015, LG announced a Bluetooth keyboard that folds up along the four rows of keys for portability. The Rolly keyboard is made of solid plastic. Two tiny plastic arms fold out from the end of the keyboard to support a tablet or smartphone and it can toggle between two different Bluetooth-connected devices at a time. Battery life is an expected three months on a single AAA battery.[78]

Home appliances

LG washer and dryer on pedestals
LG Signature LSA 50 A air purifier

LG manufactures home appliances including refrigerators, washing machines, tumble dryers, vacuum cleaners, air conditioners and microwave ovens. In June 2014, LG Electronics announced the launch of its smart appliances with HomeChat messaging service in South Korea. HomeChat employs LINE, the mobile messenger app from Korean company 'Naver', to let homeowners communicate, control, monitor and share content with LG's smart appliances.[79] Users can send simple messages, such as "start washing cycle," in order to control their washing machines.[79]

In December 2021, LG Electronics announced they were testing an ecologically friendly washing machine that uses liquid carbon dioxide as a cleaner. The company will be conducting a two-year test prove the safety with a goal of having commercial CO2 washers in shopping mall laundries. This new process creates no wastewater and will exhaust gas.[80]

Competitive position: innovation

In 2021, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)'s annual World Intellectual Property Indicators report ranked LG's number of patent applications published under the PCT System as 4th in the world, with 2,759 patent applications being published during 2020.[81] This position is an impressive increase from their previous ranking as 10th in 2019 with 1,646 applications.[82] In the same 2021 report, LG's number of designs in industrial design registrations published under the Hague System was ranked as 1st in the world, with 446 design registrations being published during that year,[81] retaining their previous 1st-place ranking in 2019 for 449 design registrations being published.[82]

In 2023, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)'s Annual PCT Review ranked LG Electronics's number of patent applications published under the PCT System as 6th in the world, with 1,887 patent applications being published during 2023.[83]

Marketing and public relations

Sponsorships

LG Sports Limited, a subsidiary of LG Corporation, owns the Korean Baseball Organisation (KBO) LG Twins (LG 트윈스). Through an acquisition in 1990, the MBC Blue Dragons (who was one of the six original founding members of the KBO in 1982) became the LG Twins.[84] The team has won two Korean Series (1990 and 1994). LG attracts a large attendance of fans and to much of their enjoyment, took third place in the league.[85]

In August 2013, LG Electronics announced that it would sponsor German Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen for the next three years with an option to extend for one more year. LG sponsors the International Cricket Council, the world governing body for cricket and also sponsors the ICC Awards.[86]

From 2009 to 2013, LG Electronics sponsored Formula One as a Global Partner and Technology Partner.[87] LG was also an official supplier to Virgin Racing and Lotus Racing team, plus engine manufacturer Cosworth from 2010 to 2012.[88] LG also sponsors London Fashion Week and the LG Arena in Birmingham.[89]

During the period 2001–2003, LG sponsored the snooker Grand Prix. During these years the tournament was known as the LG Cup. In 2008, LG became sponsors of the Extreme Sport 'FSO4 Freeze' festival.[90]

The LG Electronics company in Australia dissolved its sponsorship with cricketer David Warner on 27 March 2018 and dropped him as the brand ambassador of the company over the ball tampering scandal during the third Test of their 2017–18 tempestuous series against South Africa.[91][92] Warner had an agreement with the company in 2014 and his contract had been planned for renewal.[93][94]

Environmental record

In 2010, independent tests of popular LG fridge models conducted by Choice magazine found the energy consumption in two models was higher than claimed by LG. LG was aware of the problem and offered compensation to affected customers.[95] In 2004, LG made 4A-rated water efficiency claims for numerous washing machines before they were certified. LG gave undertakings to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission to provide appropriate corrective notices and upgrade and maintain its trade practices compliance program. In 2006, LG overstated energy efficiency on five of its air conditioner models and was again required to offer consumers rebates to cover the extra energy costs.[95]

In March 2018, it was announced that one of LG steam clothing care system earned the Asthma & Allergy Friendly Certification.[96] In May 2020, a deadly gas leak in LG chemical plant in Visakhapatnam killed 12 people. An investigation was set up to look upon the matter revealed many causes for the accident. Improper storage design, haphazard maintenance of the old storage tank, the temperature inside the oldest of the three storage tanks holding styrene monomer, a chemical used in making polystyrene products, rose to more than six times the permitted level due to polymerization, which resulted in the rise of heat due to the chemical reaction are the few causes. It was also suggested to move the company to a less populated area.[97]

Slogans

  • "We Put People First" (1997–1999)
  • "Digitally Yours" (1999–2004)
  • "A Better Life with Digital" (2002–2004)
  • "Life's Good" (1999–present in Australia and 2004–present in the rest of the world)
  • "Innovation for a Better Life" (2016–present)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The logo's symbol has been in use since March 1995.

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