SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s retail industry is preparing to deal with the upcoming summer heat. E-commerce grocer Market Kurly introduced new packaging this month that includes more ice packs and dry ice for refrigerated products. “We are using some 100 kinds of packaging methods to ensure that the food is delivered [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea, the local unit of the U.S. coffee giant, is tapping into the delivery market. The number of Starbucks outlets offering delivery services increased from six to 25 on Tuesday, with the company hoping to reach 80 to 100 stores offering delivery services in the Seoul and Gyeonggi [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. will join hands with Woowa Brothers, South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, to develop unmanned delivery robots. The three companies recently signed a memorandum of understanding to start a research and development (R&D) project on robotics mobility and distribution for delivery [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Demand for corrugated shipping boxes is soaring, and so too are worries about a supply shortage in the packaging industry. This issue was foreseen early on this year when market research company Freedonia Group predicted that global demand for corrugated shipping boxes was projected to rise 12 percent annually [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The overall number of traffic accident deaths in South Korea dwindled this year, but two-wheeler crash deaths increased, police data showed Wednesday, apparently reflecting the growing demand for delivery services amid the spread of the coronavirus. According to the National Police Agency (NPA) and the transport ministry, the number [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea, the nation’s largest coffee chain, has jumped into the delivery fray, in its attempt to boost annual sales in South Korea to 2 trillion won (US$1.86 billion). Expanding aggressively its number of stores here, Starbucks Korea has kept growing its presence with its net profit rising 18.5 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — With demand for delivery services on the rise following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, a growing number of South Koreans are voicing concerns over the increasing amount of disposable packaging being generated and discarded. In response, several home shopping retailers and online shopping malls are launching eco-friendly delivery [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — As so-called ‘untact’ or contactless consumption is on the increase amid the coronavirus pandemic, the lines that once stood between the retail and delivery sectors are disappearing as market players are jumping into each other’s territories. Delivery Hero Stores Korea, a subsidiary of Germany-based online delivery service provider Delivery [...]
BONN, GERMANY, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – With first emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines expected to be effective in the last quarter of 2020, logistics providers are challenged to rapidly establish medical supply chains to deliver more than ten billion doses worldwide. DHL, working with McKinsey & Company as analytics partner, has published a white [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Coffee delivery services are not an unfamiliar concept in South Korea. Serving persons at tea houses, or “dabang” in Korean, used to deliver cups of coffee filled with sugar and cream on foot. Big-name coffee chains such as Starbucks and small independent cafes replaced such tea houses by offering [...]