South Korean food and bakery giant SPC Group said Monday it has appointed Ha Joo-ho, former communications director of Hotel Shilla, as its new communications chief. Ha is a communications veteran w...utive vice president of Hotel Shilla, the luxury hotel chain affiliated with Samsung, in 2016. At SPC, Ha will oversee the public relations business across SPC brands, including Paris Baguette and Sa...

South Korean confectionery company SPC Samlip said Monday it has signed an agreement with Siam Makro, an affiliate of Thailand’s largest conglomerate CP Group, to make a foray into the Thai bakery ma...a, India, China, and Myanmar as well as other premium food and retail businesses in Asia overall. SPC Samlip plans to operate bakeries within Siam Makro retail stores nationwide, producing and distri...

SPC's main future goals center around foraying into the Middle East, as well as continuing to expand its business in Southeast Asia, the US and Europe. "SPC Group plans to newly target the Middle East market, using Malaysia -- where we have recently started building a bread factory -- as a regional base for entry into the halal market. We positively view the Muslim market, as the area is respons...

...rial prices weighed down their profit growth. In 2022, Korean food companies Lotte Confectionery, SPC Samlip, Ottogi and Nongshim newly joined the short list of Korean food companies who posted annua...ongshim hiked the price of its snacks twice last year, while Paris Baguette, a bakery chain run by SPC Group, raised bread and cake prices by 6.6 percent on average in January last year. CJ CheilJedan...

... has launched its 100th franchise store in the US, stepping up its overseas business, its operator SPC Group said Monday. Reaching the milestone with the opening of "Paris Baguette Red Bank" in New J... Times Square, Midtown and the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York, as well as in downtown LA. SPC is set to open more stores in new locations such as North Carolina and Colorado, aside from its w...

Food and bakery giant SPC Group said Thursday that it has opened the first Paris Baguette store in Malaysia on a 264-square-meter site at the Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, the capital’s biggest shopping cen... Sdn. Bhd. -- was launched in partnership with Berjaya Group, a Malaysia-based property developer. SPC is expanding its presence in the Southeast Asian market, where it also operates eight and two Par...

...eling to the public, especially after the pandemic has made people spend more for better quality food and dining experiences,” said Kim. He offered his consulting services for food and retail giant SPC Group in opening their salad franchise “Pig in the Garden.” To do things his own way, he’s experimenting with Korean food by adding American cooking methods. “I’m currently experimenting with cri...

A promotional poster for Paris Baguette's Christmas seasonal cake "Snow Wishing Tree" is pictured. The coffeehouse-to-bakery chain, owned by SPC Group, has unveiled this year's Christmas cake lineup consisting of five tree-shaped cakes.

Prosecutors on Friday indicted Hur Young-in, the chair of the nation's largest bakery chain, SPC Group, on breach of trust charges for underselling stocks held by group affiliates in a suspected atte... between affiliates of the same group. Mildawon was in charge of producing and supplying flour to SPC affiliates via another SPC subsidiary, Samlip, a structure under which Hur would have been slappe...

South Korean food and beverage giant SPC kicked off a new safety management committee on Monday as part of follow-up measures in response to the recent death of a young employee at its affiliated bre...ise industrial safety, working conditions and social responsibilities across the facilities of all SPC subsidiaries, and alert the company of potential accidents. SPC said it will guarantee the commi...

... 2.8 trillion won in 2018. The market, which has traditionally been dominated by a few major fast food franchises such as Lotteria and McDonald’s, has seen an influx of competition since 2016, when SPC Group staked out its position by bringing in US burger chain Shake Shack. It was soon followed by No Brand Burger in 2019, Gordon Ramsay Burger in January, Five Guys in October and Super Duper Burg...

...shlights. The public apology issued last week by the head of South Korean food and beverage giant SPC was any businessperson's worst nightmare. Chairman Hur Young-in of the food and bakery giant apo...ath of a 23-year-old worker who was crushed by a sauce mixing machine at a factory affiliated with SPC during an overnight shift. The chairman does not just face public humiliation and a nationwide b...

...death of a young worker at a bread-making factory run by an affiliate of South Korean bakery giant SPC Group, illustrating the public anger over the negligence and malpractice that were glaringly laid...y of SPL in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. SPL is owned by Paris Croissant, a firm wholly owned by SPC Group Chairman Heo Young-in and his family. Heo apologized in a press conference held in Seoul o...

A worker was injured at one of South Korean bakery giant SPC Group’s bread-making factories on Sunday, just two days after its chief extended a public apology in response to a deadly accident in anot...SPC’s bread-making factory in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. After the first incident took place, SPC Group was criticized for having continued operation of other machines in the factory and sending ...

Heo Young-in, CEO of South Korean bakery giant SPC Group, bowed deep in apology Friday over a young factory worker killed in an accident at one of the company's bread-making factories last week. “I ...9.6 million) to upgrade safety management systems at the company's worksites overall. In the day, SPC also launched safety inspections into its flagship Paris Baguette-affiliated factory, located in ...