SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — SPC Group, a South Korean food and beverage company, said Tuesday its bakery brand Paris Baguette has opened its 600th overseas outlet in Canada as part of its global expansion strategy. SPC has opened 30 outlets in North America this year, bringing the total in the mainstay markets to [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hur Young-in, the chairman of bakery giant SPC Group, did not show up for prosecution questioning scheduled for Monday on allegations that he forced bakers at a bakery affiliate to quit their labor union. The 74-year-old chairman is currently under investigation for his suspected involvement in an affiliate’s alleged [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The CEO of bakery and beverage giant SPC Group was arrested Monday on charges of forcing bakers at an affiliated firm to quit their labor union and bribing a prosecution investigator. The Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for Hwang Jae-bok, citing concerns he could destroy evidence. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SPC Group, a South Korean food and beverage company, said Monday its bakery brand Paris Baguette has opened its first outlet in Hawaii in its global expansion strategy. Paris Baguette has opened the Bishop Street outlet, the first in Hawaii and 160th in the United States, in Honolulu, the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Prosecutors questioned the CEO of bakery and beverage giant SPC Group on Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations that an affiliated firm forced bakers to quit their labor union. SPC CEO Hwang Jae-bok appeared at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office as a suspect over allegations that [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SPC Group, a South Korean food and beverage company, said Tuesday its bakery brand Paris Baguette has opened seven new outlets in Southeast Asia as part of its global expansion strategy. Paris Baguette opened three new stores in Singapore, two in Indonesia and two in Malaysia as it seeks [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Another workplace accident has occurred at a subsidiary of the food and beverage giant SPC Group, marking the second such event at the factory following a fatal accident last year when an employee lost their life due to operating machinery without adhering to basic safety regulations. The SPC chairman issued [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of Christmas, a prime season for cakes, anti-SPC sentiment is on the rise with many vowing to avoid purchasing SPC products. A boycott movement of SPC Group brands began in October, after a 23-year-old worker killed in a sauce mixer accident at at the factory affiliated with the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — College students are boycotting South Korean food and beverage giant SPC Group following the death of a young worker at a bread-making factory. “The death machine that made ‘blood-stained bread’ ends now,” posters that were put up across the Seoul National University campus by a student club said. A [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SPC Group chairman apologized Friday for the death of a young worker at a bread-making factory amid a boycott campaign against the South Korean food and beverage giant. The 23-year old employee was killed on Saturday after her upper body was caught in a sauce mixer at the factory [...]