Lotte Corporation

Lotte Corporation
Native name
  • 롯데 그룹
Public
Traded as KRX: 004990
Industry Conglomerate
Predecessor Lotte Confectionery
Founded March 24, 1967 (1967-03-24)
Founder Shin Kyuk-ho
Headquarters Songpa District, Seoul, South Korea
Areas served
Key people
Services
Revenue ₩67,418,470 million[1] (2011)
  • Decrease ₩3,639,000,000,000 (2014)
  • ₩5,626,487,000,000 (2011)[1]
₩3,289,570 million[1] (2011)
Subsidiaries
Website www.lotte.co.kr
Lotte Corporation
Korean name
Hangul 롯데 그룹

Lotte Corporation (Hangul: 롯데 그룹), is a Korean multinational conglomerate. Lotte began its history on June 28, 1948 in Tokyo by Korean businessman Shin Kyuk-ho. Shin expanded Lotte to his home country, South Korea with the establishment of Lotte Confectionery in Seoul on April 3, 1967. Lotte eventually grew to become South Korea's fifth largest business conglomerate.[2]

Lotte Corporation consists of over 90 business units employing 60,000 people engaged in such diverse industries as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment. Lotte runs additional businesses in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Philippines, Pakistan and Poland (Lotte bought Poland's largest candy company Wedel from Kraft Foods in June 2010). Today, Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea.

History

Lotte was founded in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Korean Businessman Shin Kyuk-ho, two years after he graduated from Waseda Jitsugyo High School (早稲田実業学校). Originally called Lotte Co., Ltd, the company has grown from selling chewing gum to children in post-war Japan to becoming a major multinational corporation.

Name

The source of the company's name is neither Korean nor Japanese, but German. Shigemitsu was impressed with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and named his newly founded company Lotte after the character Charlotte[3][4] in the novel ("Charlotte" is also the name of a new brand of deluxe movie theatres run by Lotte). Lotte's current marketing slogan in Japan is "The sweetheart of your mouth, Lotte" (お口の恋人,ロッテ, Okuchi no koibito, Rotte).

Management

Lotte Corporation – Lotte group's world headquarters – are located in Myeongdong, Seoul and Lotte Holdings Co., Ltd. in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It is controlled by the founder Shin Kyuk-Ho's extended family.

Business

Lotte World in Seoul
Lotte Young Shopping Plaza in Daegu, South Korea
Song Seung-Jun, South Korean starting pitcher who plays for the Lotte Giants

Lotte group's major businesses are food products, shopping, finance, construction, amusement parks, hotels, trade, oil and sports.

Sports

Lotte also owns professional baseball teams

Lotte R&D Center

Corruption scandal

In June 2016, companies of the group were raided by South Korean prosecutors, investigating into a possible slush fund as well as breach of trust involving transactions among the group's companies.[12] The investigation forced its Hotel Lotte unit to abandon an initial public offering and Lotte Chemical Corp to withdraw from bidding for Axiall Corp.[12] Vice chairman, Lee In-won, was found dead in August same year. He was suspected of suicide just hours before being questioned by prosecutors.[12] Lee was considered the top lieutenant of Chairman Shin Dong-bin.[12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "LOTTE". www.lotte.co.jp. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Chaebol rankings seesaw over 2 decades". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  3. ↑ www.lottehotel.com. "Lotte Hotel Seoul - Hotel Facilities, Fitness, Spa, Conference room". www.lottehotel.com. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Korean Chaebols: Lotte. The Origin of the Lotte Name". Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  5. ↑ Chevalier, Michel (2012). Luxury Brand Management. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-17176-9.
  6. ↑ "Lotteshopping.com". Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  7. ↑ "About Us: Korean Market in Maryland & Virginia".
  8. ↑ "LOTTE TRADING". www.lotteintl.com. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "LOTTE CHEMICAL". english.hpc.co.kr. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  10. ↑ "KPchem.co.kr". Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  11. ↑ "lotterentacar.net". Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Jin, Hyunjoo; Lee, Se Young (August 26, 2016). "Lotte vice chairman found dead amid probe; suicide suspected". Reuters. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
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