SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday it will push to sign COVID-19 vaccine procurement contracts with Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen and Pfizer later this month and ink another deal with Moderna next month. The health ministry last week said it has secured early access of the vaccines developed by four pharmaceutical [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s public institutions have been mandated to buy 8 percent of their annual procurements from startups. The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced that the revised enforcement ordinance of the SME Establishment Support Act was resolved at a cabinet meeting and would take effect from Thursday. Under the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to reduce the volume of purchases from Japanese corporations with a history of being involved in atrocities committed against the Korean people during the colonial rule of the Korean peninsula. The Seoul Metropolitan Council began deliberating on a recently submitted bill that calls on [...]
SAN MATEO, Calif., Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in business spend management (BSM), today announced that Telenor, one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, has selected Coupa to transform its global procurement capability and drive efficiencies across its 25,000 employees. Global service provider KPMG will support the deployment. “Telenor is [...]