SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major discount store chain Homeplus Co. said Wednesday it will close 15 stores by December while cutting operating hours at others as part of belt-tightening efforts by the ailing retail company. Under the plan, Homeplus will shut five locations in mid-November and 10 others in December, the [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The chief of the country’s financial watchdog called on private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd. to be more responsible for the recent Homeplus fiasco Wednesday. Since last week, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has been inspecting MBK Partners to look into whether there have been any flaws in the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Homeplus, a major South Korean retailer, has announced the closure of two stores, sparking protests from its labor union over what it sees as a broader trend of store closures and asset liquidation. According to industry sources on July 17, Homeplus informed employees through its internal network that it would [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Private equity firm MBK Partners will acquire Japan’s Alinamin Pharmaceutical for 2.9 trillion won (US$2.1 billion), industry sources said Wednesday. MBK Partners will buy the Japanese supplement maker from U.S. investment fund Blackstone in a stock purchase deal to be signed later in the day, according to the sources. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Private equity firm MBK Partners is set to sell the supermarket business unit of Homeplus Co., a discount store chain in South Korea, according to financial sources on Monday. MBK Partners, which owns 100 percent of Homeplus, has put Homeplus Express up for sale, appointing Morgan Stanley to manage [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Private equity firm MBK Partners has ruled out the possibility of raising the price of its public tender offer for Hankook & Company Co., the holding company of South Korea’s top tiremaker, a source close to the matter said Monday. Last week, a special purpose company set up by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will open up its first exhibition hall named after a Korean-American. Seoul-based private equity fund MBK Partners Ltd. announced that one of the exhibition halls in the Modern Wing, named after Oscar Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, will be named after [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Dutch electronics giant Philips has expressed interest in taking over a stake in Coway, South Korea’s top water purification maker which has been put on the selling block, industry sources said Thursday. Last month, Seoul-based private equity fund MBK Partners picked Goldman Sachs as a lead manager of the sale [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A consortium led by Seoul-based private equity fund MBK Partners clinched a 7.2 trillion won (US$5.98 billion) deal to acquire U.K.-based retail giant Tesco Plc‘s Korean unit, marking the nation’s largest takeover deal. MBK said it struck the stock purchase agreement with Tesco in Hong Kong a week after [...]