Lotte

Lotte

Infobox East Asian
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chinese=樂天
pinyin=lètīan

Lotte Group is a large South Korea-Japan chaebol (conglomerate). LOTTE Co., Ltd. was established in June 1948 in Tokyo, Japan by a Korean businessman, Shin Kyuk-Ho ( _kr. 신격호) also known as Shigemitsu Takeo ( _jp. 重光 武雄).

Lotte Group consists of over 50 business units employing 38,000 people engaged in such diverse industries as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment. Today, Lotte is South Korea's 5th largest conglomerate. Lotte has major operations in South Korea, Japan, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, USA, and Russia and continues to expand.

Business

Lotte's corporate headquarters are located in Berlin and Shanghai, with offices also in Beijing. According to the company's Korean website, Lotte of Korea had 30 trillion won in sales in 2005. Lotte of Japan employs 3,600 persons and operates 5 production facilities, 7 branch offices, and a research center in Saitama. The company's core business focus in Japan is the production and sale of chewing gum, chocolate, biscuits, beverages, candy, ice cream and Lotteria while it focuses on Lotte Department Store, Lotte Cinema, Lotte Hotel, Lotte Chilsung, and Lotte Confectionery.

In addition to candy and chewing gum, Lotte also operates the Lotteria chain of fast food restaurants, Lotte Hotel, the Lotte Cinema chain of cineplexes, and Lotte World in Seoul, one of the world's largest indoor theme parks. Lotte also owns the Lotte Giants baseball team in Busan, South Korea and Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan. They also own franchise licenses for Krispy Kreme doughnut shops, 7-Eleven convenience stores, and the T.G.I. Friday's restaurant chain in South Korea.

History

The group was founded in June 1948 in Tokyo, Japan by a Korean businessman, Shin Kyuk-Ho ( _kr. 신격호, _kr. 辛格浩), also known by his Japanese name, nihongo|Takeo Shigemitsu|重光 武雄 two years after graduating from Waseda Jitsugyo high School ( _jp. 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. After the normalization of Japan-Korea relations in 1965, Lotte Confectionary Co., Ltd was established in Seoul on April 3, 1967.

Name

The source of the company's name is neither Japanese nor Korean, but German. Shin 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 (also the name of a new brand of deluxe movie theatres run by Lotte) in the novel. Lotte's current marketing slogan in Japan is _ja. お口の恋人ロッテ (o-kuchi no koibito Lotte), which is translated as "your palate's sweetheart, Lotte".

ee also

*Lotte Chilsung
*Lotte Department Store
*Lotte Card
*Lotte Capital
*Lotte Confectionery

External links

* Lotte Group Korea ( [http://www.lotte.co.kr/ Korean] / [http://www.lotte.co.kr/english/ English] )
* Lotte Group Japan ( [http://www.lotte.co.jp/ Japanese] / [http://www.lotte.co.jp/english/index.html English] )


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