SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Paris Croissant Co., the operator of South Korea’s leading bakery chain, Paris Baguette, said Tuesday that it launched a test operation of robots at its outlets as local retailers accelerate their push for automation. According to the company, seven Paris Baguette outlets in Seoul began the two-month trial run [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Labor and management at Paris Baguette, South Korea’s largest bakery franchise, on Thursday reached an agreement to set up an affiliate to hire bakers, ending a months-long dispute over employment. In September, the government said SPC Group, the franchise’s operator, violated the country’s labor laws in connection with the hiring conditions of more than 5,300 bakers [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 4,100 bakers at Paris Baguette, South Korea’s largest bakery franchise, have opted not to be directly hired by the franchise operator SPC Group in a snub to the government. The Ministry of Employment and Labor has said SPC Group should directly hire bakers, saying that the food and beverage giant violated the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Paris Baguette, a leading bakery franchise of South Korean food and beverage giant SPC Group, is expected to faceup to tens of billions of won in fines for failing to follow the government’s order to directly hire bakers at its stores, authorities said Tuesday. In late September, the Ministry of Employment and Labor said the company violated the country’s labor law in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Paris Baguette, a leading bakery and patisserie franchise here, against the government’s intervention in its baker employment policy. After an audit, the Ministry of Labor and Employment concluded in September that the firm, also named Paris Croissant Co., violated [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s directive for bakery chain Paris Baguette to hire over 5,000 contract employees has shaken the South Korean bakery industry to its core, with major players taking care to observe the impact of the ruling. The Ministry of Labor and Employment gave South Korea’s biggest bakery franchise a correction [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire ) – The government ordered South Korea’s biggest bakery franchise Thursday to directly hire over 5,000 outsourced bakers and staff members at its franchisees, as it has breached the labor law that forbids a franchiser from training and supervising contracted workers. The Ministry of Labor and Employment has given Paris Baguette a correction order to recruit 5,378 employees at 3,396 franchise stores who [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — From instant noodles to bread and beef broth soup, Korean food is gaining interest overseas from consumers outside of the usual group of Korean residents and a handful of Korea followers, a leading trade body said Monday. South Korea’s instant noodles, ramyeon, ranks second after Taiwan in the Chinese [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Kopan’, a dessert-snack bread from South Korea’s leading confectionery Paris Baguette, has won over customers in Korea after explosive popularity first in France, a company official said on Tuesday. Short for Korean pan, Kopan was served as a dessert at the Korea-France summit dinner in Paris held in November last [...]
SEOUL, Nov.5 (Korea Bizwire) – SPC Group announced that it has opened a Paris Baguette store in Las Vegas, which is a first in the Korean confectionery and bakery industry. The Las Vegas store is the company’s 44th store to open in America, and is situated in the Grand Canal Shoppes, which is a large [...]