Boston, MA, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Algo Capital, a blockchain-focused venture capital group, has announced the launch of a $100 million USD fund to invest and manage significant capital in emerging disruptors building on the Algorand decentralized platform over the course of the next decade. The Algorand protocol was designed by MIT professor, cryptography [...]
VICTOR, N.Y., Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B), a leading beverage alcohol company, announced today that Constellation Brands Ventures (CBV), the company’s corporate venture capital group, intends to invest $100 million in female-founded or female-led businesses in the beverage alcohol space and adjacent categories by 2028 through a new [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group is considering expanding investment in Vietnam, industry sources said Tuesday. According to the observers, Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin met Hanoi’s Chairman of the People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung on Tuesday and insisted that the conglomerate is open to expanding investment in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Chey Tae-won, the chairman of SK Group, has revealed that the company is willing to boost investment in a new electric car battery plant in the U.S. state of Georgia. Construction of the plant is expected to kick off next year. Chey visited SK’s Washington D.C. office on November [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s top energy-chemical business, said Monday that it will invest 1.14 trillion won (US$1.01 billion) to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in the United States. The company said it has decided to construct the 9.8 gigawatt-hour capacity battery plant in the city of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Japanese software giant Softbank Group Corp.’s chairman, Masayoshi Son, a third-generation Korean-Japanese most widely known by his Korean name “Son Jeong-ui” here, has reportedly decided to invest US$2 billion in Coupang, leaving experts seeking an explanation as to Son’s great interest in the Korean e-commerce website. Meanwhile, other competing [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean manufacturers have been shifting the focus of their overseas direct investment to Vietnam from China thanks to tax benefits, cheaper labor and other favorable conditions, a report said Thursday. Vietnam accounted for 17.7 percent of South Korean manufacturing companies’ total direct overseas investment in 2017, up sharply [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Coupang said Wednesday it has attracted US$2 billion from Japan’s Softbank Group Corp., a move that could give a boost to South Korea’s top e-commerce company mired in mounting losses in recent years. The South Korean retailer said it will use investments from Softbank Vision Fund in innovating its [...]
VICTOR, N.Y. and SMITHS FALLS, Ontario, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Constellation Brands, Inc. (Constellation) (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B) and Canopy Growth Corporation (Canopy Growth or the Company) (TSX: WEED, NYSE: CGC) today announced the closing of Constellation’s $5 billion CAD ($4 billion USD) investment in Canopy Growth, which was previously announced on August 15, 2018. The transaction was approved [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Group said Tuesday it will invest 50 trillion won (US$44 billion) and create 70,000 new jobs in the next five years in its first major business decision after its chief returned to the helm of South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate. Lotte Corp., the business group’s holding firm, said that [...]