SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Food companies have started to cut down the sugar levels in their products to match consumer awareness of the substance blamed for rising obesity, industry officials said Wednesday, in step with government moves to reduce its intake through state-level measures. According to LinkAztec, a market research company, the business-to-consumer (B2C) [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ Group, South Korea’s leading food and entertainment conglomerate, will step up its global expansion through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the bio and logistics business to foster new growth drivers, company officials said Wednesday. CJ has been grappling with stagnant growth after its chairman Lee Jay-hyun’s indictment on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – As consumer interest in eating healthy food is growing, eggs that are produced in a ‘natural’ way by free-range chickens instead of by chickens in chicken coops have been in high demand. However, it turns out that many consumers have been fooled, as a lot of those eggs were [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers and food manufacturers are expanding their ready-to-eat meal products to cater to the country’s rapidly growing single households who opt to eat in, partly to save time and money, market watchers said Wednesday. Retailers and food makers, in turn, are swiftly moving to increase their market [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s cheap street food ‘hotdog’, a fried, dough covered sausage on a long stick is getting a makeover. As CJ Cheiljedang launched an additives-free hotdog in 2011, the market for instant hotdog products is growing bigger by the year. Lotte Ham launched an all-pork sausage hotdog product in 2010, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — An eighteen-year-old intern’s suicide following physical and verbal abuse from his co-worker at a CJ Cheiljedang plant has been recognized as an occupational hazard by the Korea Workers’ Compensation & Welfare Service (COMWEL), said the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions (KFCITU) on March 4. This is the first recognition of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics held a unique cooking class event for families — mothers and their children — allowing them to make various shapes of Halloween cookies using its proprietary lightwave oven. The cooking class was held at CJ CheilJedang Center in Seoul on October 13 and guided the participants to learn useful recipes [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – JobKorea, a job search website in Korea, announced that it polled 1,511 college students and recent grads to learn what company they would like to work for. Of the top-ten choices, Samsung Electronics was the sole outlier among male students while CJ CheilJedang was the one among female participants. [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ CheilJedang recently celebrated its opening of a new lysine production plant in the U.S. constructed to take the No. 1 position in the global bio-based animal feed market. The largest food maker in Korea opened the factory in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on June 25. CJ poured US$300 to build the [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Before the commercial sales of its new bio-methionine product “L-Methionine,” CJ CheilJedang held a discussion forum to inform the strengths of the product and set up a marketing strategy with the world’s renowned scientists. CJ held the first Amino Acid Forum in Animal Nutrition at CJ Human Ville in [...]