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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A boycott of South Korea’s food and beverage giant SPC Group is spreading among consumers after a young worker in her 20s died at a factory affiliated with the group. The 23-year-old employee at the factory affiliated with the group in Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers south of Seoul, died Saturday [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food and beverage giant SPC Group said Tuesday it has opened three new Paris Baguette bakery stores in France’s capital city of Paris this year, as it eyes expansion in the European country. The company said it opened two new stores in the business area of La [...]