Samsung to move U.S. headquarters to Plano later this year

Samsung’s decision to move its U.S. subsidiary headquarters to Plano later this year puts about 1,000 corporate jobs into Collin County and gives North Texas a bigger stake in one of the country’s best-known technology companies.

Samsung Electronics notified employees that it plans to relocate the headquarters of Samsung Electronics America from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, to Plano, with industry reports saying the transfer is expected to be completed within the year. Most of the employees now based in Englewood Cliffs are expected to be offered reassignment to Plano, while a smaller team will stay in New Jersey to handle regional operations.

The move comes less than a year after Samsung opened its new North American headquarters at 700 Sylvan Ave. in Englewood Cliffs, a 321,000-square-foot campus that replaced the company’s former Ridgefield Park headquarters, where Samsung had operated since 1992. In 2025, that New Jersey relocation was presented as a major upgrade; now it is becoming another short stop in Samsung’s shifting U.S. footprint.

For Plano, the question is not just whether Samsung changes its mailing address. The more important issue is what follows: more office demand, more professional-services work, and more supplier spillover for the firms that support a headquarters operation of this size. Samsung has long had major operations in North Texas, and the company said in 2018 that more than 1,000 employees from Richardson and Plano would be consolidated at its flagship North Texas campus. Samsung also says North Texas is home to its second-largest U.S. employee population.

That local base now sits alongside Samsung’s broader Texas buildout, including its semiconductor plant in Taylor, about 35 miles northeast of Austin. Samsung describes that project as a minimum $17 billion investment, and it says the facility is expected to support about 1,500 permanent employees by the end of 2026. Taken together, the headquarters move and the chip investment point to a deliberate strategy: put more of Samsung’s U.S. management, mobile and network work, and manufacturing presence in one state.

That may help Plano and the broader Collin County economy, but it also raises familiar growth questions. More headquarters jobs can tighten the office market, increase traffic and housing demand, and deepen pressure on roads and other infrastructure. It can also bring more prestige than measurable local payoff if the move is mostly a reorganization on paper. For Plano, Samsung’s relocation looks like both, a symbol of the city’s standing in the North Texas tech corridor and a real test of how much economic lift follows when a global company moves its nerve center into town.