SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Genesis BBQ, a South Korean fried chicken chain, said Monday it plans to tap deeper into the U.S. market by opening shops at sports facilities, paving the way to promote its products at popular sporting events including National Football League (NFL) games. Under the agreement with U.S.-based Levy Restaurants, Genesis [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — System integrators affiliated with South Korea’s family-run business groups increased internal transactions in 2014 despite the government’s efforts to curb excessive groupwide trades, data showed Monday. Internal transactions of the top 20 system integration subsidiaries of the family-run conglomerates, locally called chaebol, came to 8.36 trillion won (US$7.74 billion) [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s No. 1 tech giant, said Saturday it plans to inject US$5 million into Brazil over the next five years to foster startups there, adding it will also share its business know-how. Under the agreement with the Brazilian Association of Science Parks and Business Incubators, an [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s two largest business groups, Samsung Group and Hyundai Motor Group, accounted for a significant portion of the net profits of the top 30 groups in Korea, by generating more than four fifths of their total earnings. Korea generally categorizes the top 30 business groups as representing the Korean economy, [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top conglomerates spent more on research and development and intellectual property to seek new growth engines in 2014, while cutting back on facility-related investments, a report showed Sunday. A total of 274 firms belonging to the country’s 30 largest business groups injected 35.31 trillion won (US$32.31 billion) into [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of dividends to be paid to the heads of South Korea’s top 10 business groups will reach an all-time high for the 2014 fiscal year, market data showed Sunday. According to the data provided by financial investment firms and Chaebul.com, a website that tracks the country’s conglomerates, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group invested in an Israeli healthcare venture, Early Sense, which Samsung Electronics CEO Yoon Boo-geun mentioned in his keynote speech at the opening of CES 2015. According a venture investment business source, Samsung Venture Investment closed the fundraising worth US$20 million for Early Sense. Samsung invested US$10 million, and the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — As Samsung Group announced its annual president-level reshuffling results on December 1, the attention is now paid to the follow-up announcement on executive-level personnel change and the group affiliates’ organizational change. As for president-level change, the number of presidents sacked and appointed has been somewhat reduced from the last year. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A merger between Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering has been shelved due to opposition by institutional investors including the National Pension Service. As the big investors exercised their stock buyback rights, the companies saw their merger cost soar and decided to call it off. Some analysts suggested that this [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Of all registered executives of Korean publicly listed firms, Shin Jong-kyun, Samsung Electronics’ IT & mobile division president, was ranked as the highest paid executive for the first nine months of the year at 12 billion won (US$10.9 million). Chung Mong-koo, Hyundai Motor Group chairman, won the top position among [...]