page_title: Lotte Corporation
section_title: Business
hierarchical_section_title: Lotte Corporation / Business
caption_attribution_description: Song Seung-Jun, professional baseball player.
context_page_description: Lotte Corporation is a South Korean multinational conglomerate. Lotte began its history on June 28, 1948, by Korean businessman Shin Kyuk-ho in Tokyo. Shin expanded Lotte to his ancestral 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.
  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, industrial chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment. Lotte runs additional businesses in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, United States, United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Russia, Philippines, Myanmar, Pakistan and Poland, Australia and New Zealand. Today, Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea.
context_section_description: Lotte group's major businesses are food products, shopping, finance, construction, amusement parks, hotels, trade, oil and sports.
  Food Products: Lotte Confectionery, Lotte Chilsung, Lotte Foods, Lotteria, E Wedel, Lotte Food, Angel-in-us, Lotte Cool, Lotte Fresh Delica, Lotte Shopping Food Division, Lotte Kolson (Pakistan)
  Shopping: Lotte Duty Free, Lotte Shopping, Lotte Mart, Lotte Department Store, Lotte-Assi Plaza
  Entertainment: Lotte Cinema, Lotte Entertainment (investment and distribution of domestic and international films)
  Finance: Lotte Card, Lotte Capital
  Housing: Lotte Castle High Rise Apartment Complex
  Amusement parks: Lotte Cinema, Lotte World in Seoul, one of the world's largest indoor theme parks.
  Hotels: Lotte Super Tower 123, skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea, 2014 and Busan Lotte Tower skyscraper in Busan, South Korea, 2013, Lotte City Hotel in Daejeon, Lotte New York Palace in New York City
  Trade: Lotte International
  IT / Electronics: Korea Fuji Film, Lotte Canon, Lotte IT, Lotte.com, Mobidomi
  Heavy chemicals / construction / machinery: Honam Petrochemical, KP Chemical, Lotte Engineering & Construction, Lotte Engineering & Machinery, Lotte Aluminum
  Car rental: Lotte rent-a-car 
  Transport service: Andi Mack-Lotte Transport Corporation (tourist transport service in partnership with Andi Mack)
caption: Song Seung-jun, South Korean starting pitcher who plays for the Lotte Giants
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