SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO, South Korea’s top steelmaker, launched a holding company Wednesday to better nurture non-steelmaking businesses, such as battery materials and hydrogen. In January, shareholders of POSCO approved a plan for the steelmaker to transform into a holding company by splitting it into two business entities. After the breakup, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Shareholders of POSCO, South Korea’s top steelmaker, said Friday that the company will create a holding company following the approval of its plan to transform into a holding company by splitting it into two business entities. After the breakup, the steelmaking group’s holding company, tentatively named POSCO Holdings Inc., [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean steelmakers are looking into the feasibility of increasing dividends as a way to appease shareholder concern about their switch into a holding company system. Seah Besteel Corp., which announced that it would be converting into a holding company system last Friday, is reviewing the idea of increasing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, said Friday its board of directors has decided to turn it into a holding company. Starting March 1, 2022, POSCO will be separated into two entities, a holding company tentatively named POSCO Holdings Inc. and its wholly-owned steelmaker tentatively named POSCO, the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO, South Korea’s top steelmaker, is planning to transform into a holding company by splitting it into two business entities, industry sources said Wednesday. After the breakup, the steelmaking group’s holding company will be focused on charting out future business, research and development, and investment, according to the sources. [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Wednesday it will create a new holding company for its non-mobile subsidiaries to accelerate growth in promising fields and tighten its grip on its chipmaking unit, SK hynix Inc. The telecom operator said that it will conduct a spinoff to [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A Samsung Group affiliate will be required to sell an additional stake in the de facto holding company of South Korea’s No. 1 conglomerate as a merger that took place in 2015 has effectively strengthened cross-shareholding ties within the business group, the country’s corporate watchdog said Thursday. In 2015, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Robotics said Wednesday that it has secured a more than 20 percent stake in its listed affiliates in a move that made it eligible to become the holding company of Hyundai Heavy Industries Group. The company said it acquired the stocks through an open takeover offering that raised [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will scrap plans to adopt a holding company structure. The tech giant said through a regulatory filing in November that it will seek a change in the management structure, which includes splitting itself into a holding company and an operating company to boost [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun said Friday that a move to restructure the tech giant into a holding-company structure is “not easy” at the moment, suggesting the process may be delayed for the time being. The world’s largest leading maker of smartphones and memory chips said in [...]