CanadianShoprEarly build

Samsung

1 of 10 brands

In the order the records were researched. Canada-first grouping and ranking need a tier computed from evidence and a price to rank on, and this build has neither, so nothing here is ordered by preference.

KR

Samsung

major appliances

Non-U.S. alternativePROVISIONAL

Korean owned and famously tangled: no single shareholder controls Samsung Electronics, and Samsung's own filings name none. Its North American appliances come partly out of Newberry County, South Carolina.

OwnershipKRSitesamsung.comHQSamsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea
Legal ownerStrong

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Ultimate ownerUnknown

No single controlling shareholder

Samsung's own investor-relations ownership disclosure names no controlling shareholder and reports investor categories only. No single shareholder approaches control. This is the correct answer, not a gap.

ManufacturingVerified
US

United States home appliances: Newberry County, South Carolina, a $380M plant with 950+ jobs announced 2017-06-28 by a government source. Appliance manufacturing beyond Newberry is unknown. Samsung's Vietnam, India and China plants make phones and chips, not major appliances.

Canadian operationsUnknown

No Canadian manufacturing found.

HeadquartersProbable

Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea

PriceNot yet
RetailerNot yet
In stockNot yet
SpecificationsNot yet
PhotographyNot yet

We have researched who owns this brand, not what it costs. Prices, retailers, stock and product photography arrive with the catalogue and the offer feeds. Nothing above is a placeholder standing in for a real number.

No offer to link to yet
Why this classification?3 sources

The tier above is a researcher’s read of the evidence below, not yet a computed classification. Every consequential claim we make resolves to one of these stored records, and each link goes to the page we actually read. When the deterministic classifier lands, it will read this same evidence.

  1. 01
    OwnershipUnknown

    No named controlling shareholder; end 2Q26 common stock by category only: Foreign Investors 46%, Major Shareholder and Related Parties 20%, Domestic Individual 17%, Domestic Institutional 16%

    Ownership Structure
    Publisher
    Samsung Electronics
    Source
    Brand owner
    Checked
    August 27, 2026
  2. 02
    ManufacturingVerified

    U.S. home-appliance plant in Newberry County, South Carolina; $380M; 950+ jobs

    Samsung to open $380 million manufacturing plant in Newberry County
    Publisher
    South Carolina Department of Commerce
    Source
    Government
    Dated
    June 28, 2017
    Checked
    August 27, 2026
  3. 03
    OwnershipProbable

    Suwon; Samsung Life 7.60%, National Pension Service 7.35%, BlackRock 5.03%, Samsung C&T 4.40%

    Samsung Electronics
    Publisher
    Wikipedia
    Source
    Secondary source
    Checked
    August 27, 2026

Graded separately

Narrower claims the research graded on their own, rather than folding into the five above.

  • Samsung Electronics is Korean incorporated and Korean headquartered, so the ownership country is KR even though the ultimate parent is unknownStrong
  • Appliance manufacturing beyond the Newberry County, South Carolina plantUnknown

Last verified August 27, 2026