{"id":5368,"date":"2012-02-26T22:02:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T22:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2012-02-26T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T22:04:15","slug":"lg-reveals-key-focus-areas-for-sa-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/5368\/lg-reveals-key-focus-areas-for-sa-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"LG reveals key focus areas for SA in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronics group\u00a0<a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21527-LG-Electronics\" target=\"_blank\">LG<\/a> sees South Africa, and indeed Africa as a whole, as an important market for the company, and will continue to invest in the region. This is word from Ryan Hooker, consumer electronics director at LG Electronics, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Hooker says that home entertainment and home appliances are key focus areas for the company &#8211; and this will not change in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of the home entertainment division, we are focusing our attention on 3D technology and Smart solutions, such as the LG Cinema 3D Smart TV,\u201d said Hooker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the home appliances side, we are focusing on LG\u2019s 4-core technologies, which include LG\u2019s Inverter Direct Drive in their latest washing machines; linear compressor technology in the latest LG refrigerators; lightwave technology in the LG SolarDOM oven; and new CharcoalHeater Lightwave oven and Kompressor technology in the latest LG vacuum cleaners,\u201d said Hooker.<\/p>\n<p>Home entertainment products and home appliances are LG\u2019s most popular products in South Africa. \u201cOur TVs are sought-after products because they are of the highest quality and feature the latest in 3D and Smart technology at an affordable price,\u201d says Hooker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur LG Cinema 3D TVs are selling very well since their release last year. We are confident that this trend will continue thoughout 2012,\u201d says Hooker.<\/p>\n<p>LG is also planning to strengthen its \u20183D=LG\u2019 image by ranking number 0ne in the global 3D TV market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLG will also lead the Smart TV industry by continuously enhancing its own Smart TV platform, NetCast,\u201d says Hooker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG says South Africa and Africa is a key market for them, and reveals what people can expect from the company in 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[26,611,1316,52],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-lg","tag-ryan-hooker","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5370,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions\/5370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}