SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Cost-effective large drinks are gaining popularity in South Korea as high inflation places a burden on consumers. Last month, Starbucks Korea introduced the Trenta size (887 milliliters) beverages, and their cumulative sales surpassed 400,000 units within just 15 days. The Trenta size is about 1.5 times bigger than the [...]
Batavia, IL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Physicists now have a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment that improves the precision of their previous result by a factor of 2. An international collaboration of scientists working on the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi [...]
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – eXp Realty®, “the most agent-centric real estate brokerage on the planet™” and the core subsidiary of eXp World Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPI), today announced it has exceeded 1,000 agents across South Africa, representing an over 74% increase from the 574 total agent count in July 2022. “This is a [...]
BOSTON, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – HqO, the world’s leading real estate experience platform, today announced it has been selected as Real Estate Analytics Platform Of The Year in the annual PropTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by PropTech Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that evaluates and recognizes standout real estate technology companies, products, and services around the globe. [...]
PHOENIX, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. (“WillScot Mobile Mini” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: WSC), the North American leader in innovative temporary space solutions, today announced it has acquired Cold Box based in California and A&M Cold Storage based in Ohio, making the Company one of the largest providers of temporary cold storage units serving diverse customers [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Harbert Management Corporation (“HMC”) is pleased to announce that Harbert Infrastructure Fund VI, LP (“HIF VI”) has acquired PSEG Power’s 50% interest in Kalaeloa Partners, L.P. (“Kalaeloa”), a partnership owning a 208 MW low sulfur fuel oil-fired cogeneration facility on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. Located in Oahu’s [...]
PAJU, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, said Thursday it is aiming to sell 28,000 units of the all-new Santa Fe SUV this year after its planned launch later this month. Hyundai Motor has set the sales goal in the domestic market for this year, while planning [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — LS Cable & System Ltd., South Korea’s leading wire and cable maker, said Thursday it will invest about 155.5 billion won (US$118 million) over the next two years to expand its submarine cable plant. The expansion of the factory in Donghae on the east coast is designed to meet [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will hold Memory Tech Day 2023 in October in the United States to share its newest chip technologies and products with technicians and industry officials worldwide. The event is scheduled to take place in San Jose, California, on Oct. 20, beginning with an [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Nexon Co. dominates the South Korean gaming market in the second quarter, surpassing other major developers such as Netmarble Corp. and NCSOFT Corp. According to the financial reports of major listed game developers for the second quarter, Nexon was the sole company to exceed its operating profit from the [...]