SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Foodville, the restaurant arm of food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group, said Monday its bakery franchise Tous les Jours will reopen five outlets in Cambodia this year under a contract with a new local partner. CJ Foodville has signed a master franchise deal with Cambodia’s Express Food Group [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s CJ Foodville Co. said Wednesday it swung to a net profit last year thanks to the stellar overseas performance of its bakery chain Tous les Jours. Tous les Jours is the second-largest bakery chain in South Korea by number of stores, after SPC Group’s Paris Baguette. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Foodville Corp., the operator of Tous les Jours bakery chain, confirmed Monday it is planning to build a bread factory in the United States as part of its expansion strategy. CJ Foodville is expected to break ground next year, though the exact location or the size of the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Foodville, the restaurant arm of food and entertainment conglomerate CJ, said Tuesday that it has decided to sell its coffee chain operator to a foreign private equity fund (PEF) for some 200 billion won (US$171 million) to improve its financial footing. The company’s board of directors approved a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. food delivery app Uber Eats said Wednesday that it has signed a partnership with South Korean food service company CJ Foodville in the latest move to boost its presence in the country’s growing food delivery market. Uber Eats said major CJ Foodville brands, such as VIPS, Cheiljemyunso, The [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — To become a skillful eater at a buffet restaurant, it’s best to select foods that you don’t or can’t have at home. For that reason, rice and some common Korean side dishes, whether at a luxury hotel, seafood or salad buffet, are mostly considered secondary to international dishes. It [...]
Seoul, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – At a time when one in ten people are literally living ‘home alone’, products for single households are selling like ice cold water on a hot day. According to 11st Street, an online shopping mall, the items that showed the fastest growth in sales were electronics for single households. [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ Foodville has opened a bakery academy to develop a professional workforce in China. The academy, located in Wangjing SOHO, a landmark of Beijing, is equipped with two lecture rooms, five laboratories and an office, and can house up to 200 trainees. CJ Foodville will deploy trainees educated at [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Foodville has opened its first Tous Les Jours store in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, said the company on March 3. The bakery is located on the first floor of a landmark department store in Xinjiang’s capital city of Ürümqi, and saw more than 1,000 customers on its [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Min-ho, the young actor who gained his fame from dramas such as The Heirs, Boys over Flowers, and City Hunter, is now set to debut as a movie star by appearing on the upcoming film Gangnam 1970. He is now one of the hottest actors in China. That’s [...]