LG Electronics
Consumer electronics and home appliances · South Korea
LG Electronics makes home appliances, TVs, car electronics and air-conditioning systems, plus camera modules through its LG Innotek unit, and sells them to consumers and businesses in more than 170 countries.
What makes it different
One outside customer buys a fifth of LG's sales.
₩17.9TSales to its largest customerFY2025
Most of those sales come through LG Innotek, which supplies camera modules to a single large buyer that LG does not name.
How big it is
How big is LG Electronics?
₩89.2TRevenueFY2025
75,000+Employees worldwideFY2024
177Subsidiaries2025
How it makes money FY2025
Appliances, screens, car parts and cameras.
- Home appliances29%₩25.7T
- LG Innotek components24%₩21.5T
- TVs and media22%₩19.4T
- Car electronics13%₩11.1T
- Other13%
How the business works
Sell the hardware, then keep earning.
- 1Appliances, TVs, car electronics
- 2Rental and care plans
- 3webOS on every smart TV
Subscriptions and the webOS platform add repeat revenue on top of one-off hardware sales.
Who owns it
- LG Corp.35.26%
- National Pension Service of Korea6.42%
CEO: Jae-cheol Lyu
Who it competes with
Key moments
- 1958Goldstar is established
- 1966Korea's first TV
- 1995Renamed LG Electronics
- 2002Spin-off and listing on the Korea Exchange
- 201355-inch OLED TV goes on sale
Sources
Every number on this page comes from LG Electronics's own reports.
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What LG Electronics tracks26 metrics
R&D ratio
Employees worldwide
Consolidated subsidiaries
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
Revenue
Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from4 regions
Korea
America
Asia, Africa and others
The full timeline19 moments
2023
2025
2026
LG Electronics vs Samsung Electronicsside by side
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