SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food and beverage giant SPC Group said Monday it has set up a joint venture with Malaysia’s Berjaya Food Bhd. in a move to expand its presence in the global halal food market. The 50:50 joint venture, named Berjaya Paris Baguette Sdn. Bhd, said it is preparing [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food and beverage giant SPC Group said Tuesday it has acquired French restaurant chain Lina’s to ramp up its global business. SPC Group, operator of bakery chain Paris Baguette, said its European holding company SPC Euro bought a 100 percent stake in Lina’s Developpement, the owner and [...]
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.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 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SPC Group’s Paris Baguette, Korea’s French bakery brand, has opened a second store in France after gaining success with its first store, which opened in Paris in July of last year. The first store reaped operational profits soon after its opening, with its daily sales now 25 percent higher [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – SPC Group, which operates various franchises including Paris Baguette, Baskin Robbins and Dunkin Donuts, launched a mobile reward ad service called Happy Screen for its Happy Point subscribers on April 27. With the service, the subscribers who install the Happy Screen smartphone app and watch ads will get points that [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Paris Baguette, the country’s biggest confectionery chain, said Wednesday it has opened its fifth branch in Manhattan, New York, as part of its attempts to target high-end customers and expand abroad. The 353.1-square-meter branch that functions as a cafe and bakery, located in the posh Upper West Side, is [...]