1967~2021
Earlier History of LOTTE Confectionery
These are the moments of LOTTE Confectionery’s growth, filled with customers’ support and trust
New LOTTE Wellfood Return to History
2 0 2 1 ~
2 0 0 7
LOTTE Confectionery - a global TOP confectioneries brand
Management innovation and launch of premium brands to become a globa
general food products company
  • Declared Sweet ESG Management of LOTTE Confectionery
  • Sefety and Health Management System (ISO45001) Certification

Declared Sweet ESG Management of LOTTE Confectionery

  • Mayson of Myanmar acquired

Mayson of Myanmar acquired

  • Natuur business transferred (from LOTTE GRS)

Natuur business transferred

  • 50th anniversary of LOTTE Confectionery
  • LOTTE Confectionery holding company spin-off
  • Havmor of India Acquired

50th anniversary of LOTTE Confectionery

  • Exceeded KRW 4 trillion in aggregate gum sales
  • Office established in Kenya
  • Ramen production equipment introduced into Pakistani plants
  • Yogurt snack ‘YO-HI’ launched
  • Probiotic lactobacilli chocolate ‘Yusangyun Chocolat’ launched
  • Exceeded KRW 5 trillion in aggregate overseas sales
  • LOTTE India completes second ‘Choco Pie’ plant in New Delhi, India
  • Rakhat of Kazakhstan completes second plant in Shymkent
  • Business agreement signed with Haulian GemVax, China's largest distribution group
  • Flagship store ‘LOTTE Sweet World’ opened
  • Export Choco Pie and pepero receive iTQi quality certification

LOTTE India completes second ‘Choco Pie’ plant in New Delhi, India

  • Acquired LOTTE Boulangerie to expand bakery business
  • Cited for excellence in mangement-labor relations
  • Premium biscuit brand ‘Farm on the Road’ launched
  • Korea's first ‘Guylian Chocolate Cafe’ opened
  • All plants receive Food Safety Mangement System (FSSC 22000) certification

Korea's first ‘Guylian Chocolate Cafe’ opened

  • CSR "campaign Sharing good food, making a warmer world" launched
  • Public dental health campaign Dr. Xylitol Bus launched
  • Bongdong Regional Children's Center established as the first Sweet home
  • Kazakh confectionery company Rakhat acquired
  • launched ‘Malang Cow’
  • Food Safety Management System (FSSC 22000) certification
  • ltalian-style premium ice cream ‘Buon Gelato’ launched

ltalian-style premium ice cream ‘Buon Gelato’ launched

  • Pakistani confectionery company Kolson acquired
  • Small-scale merger with LOTTE Pharmaceuticals, split off of ‘Natuur’ business divison

Pakistani CONfectionery company Kolson acquired

  • Head office relocated (LOTTE Yangpyeong Building)
  • Experiential learning museum ‘Sweet Factory’ opened
  • Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) certification for all production lines
  • Food Safety Management System (ISO 22000) certification
  • Local ‘Choco Pie’ plant construted by Bibica, Vietnam
  • LOTTE India builds ‘Choco Pie’ plant in chennai, India
  • Local ‘Choco Pie’ plant constructed in Russia

Experiential learning museum ‘Sweet Factory’ opened

  • Merged with Kirin
  • Labor-management reconciliation to overcome the management crisis
  • Stylish gum product ‘ID’ launched to meet consumer needs
  • First confectionery company to receive Children's Food Quality Certification

Stylish gum product ‘ID’ launched to meet consumer needs

  • Acquired Vietnamese confectionery company Bibica
  • Acquired Guylian of Belgium - entry into the premium chocolate market
  • Joint venture agreement with Shandong Pengcheng Ice Cream. of China
  • Strategic partnership agreement signed with Hershey USA
  • LOTTE KF RUS Kaluga LLC established in Russia
  • LOTTE China Investment Ltd. establiched
  • Customer complaint management system (CCMS) adopted- a first in the confectionery industry

Strategic partnership agreement signed with Hershey USA

2 0 0 6 ~
1 9 9 7
Expanded global management
Global management proclamation and launch
of strategic, functional products
  • ‘Dream Cacao’ chocolate launched
  • LOTTE-Shanghai Foods Ltd. establiched

Lanched the dream chocolate ‘Dream Cacao’

  • LOTTE Qingdao foods Ltd. established
  • Gum line operations begins by LOTTE India
  • ‘Show Ice’ achieves KRW 10 billion monthly sales - an ice cream market first

LOTTE Qingdao foods Ltd. established

  • Acquired Indian confectionery company Parrys (currently LOTTE India), becoming first Korean confectionery company to enter Idian market
  • Environmental management system (ISO 14001) certification - a first in the confectionery industry
  • Launched ‘Anytime’
  • Tube-type ice cream product ‘Show Ice’ launched
  • Euiwang Lohistics Center completed

Tube-type ice cream product ‘Show Ice’ launched

  • Functional health foods brand Health One launched
  • Cited for excellence in managment-labor relations
  • Exceeded KRW 100 billion Monthly revenues and KRW 1 trillion annual - a first in the confectionery
  • Local production of ‘Xylitol’ begins in China
  • ‘Xylitol’ exceeded 10 billion won in monthly sales in the shortest time
  • Launched ‘Weezle’

Launched ‘Weezle’

  • Gum's new era ‘Xylitol’ re-launched
  • First confectionery industry to start selling iced confectionery in the Geumgangsan region

Gum's new era ‘Xylitol’ re-launched

  • Process innovation (PI) and combined information system operations begins
  • Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) certification - a first in the confectionery industry
  • premium ice cream brand Natuur launched
  • Gum production plant completed in Vietnam
  • Los Angeles office relocated to chicago

premium ice cream brand Natuur launched

  • Quality management system (ISO 9001) certification - a first in the confectionery industry
  • Gimhae Logistics Center completed
  • ‘Xylitol F’ launched
1 9 9 6 ~
1 9 8 7
Market innovations and forays into the global market
Diversification of overseas markets and
leadership in confectionery market trends
  • Daejeon plant completed
  • BTC method introduced for chocolate ingredient processing at Yangsan Plant - a first in the confectionery industry
  • Process innovation (PI) adopted
  • Exceeded KRW 70 billion monthly revenues and KRW 700 billion annual revenues
  • LOTTE Confectionery Pillipinas Corporation incorporated
  • ‘Chic Choc’ chocolate chip cookies launched
  • ‘Brain’ becomes first Korean gum product to sell for KRW 500 a pack
  • Received the 50 Million Export Tower award on the 32nd annual Trade Day
  • Exceeded USD 70 Million in exports
  • Moscow office opened
  • Ho Chi Minh City office opened
  • LOTTE Vietnam Co., Ltd. incorporated
  • ‘ZEC’ crackers launched

‘ZEC’ crackers launched

  • ‘Good Quality’ LOTTE Fum launched
  • Launched ‘Layer Pie’

‘Good Quality’ LOTTE Fum launched

  • LOTTE Confectionery Occupational College (Occupational Academy) Established
  • Inaugural issue of houes journal Haetnimgajog
  • Beijing office opened
  • ‘Double Bianco’ decoration-type ice cream launched

Published the newsletter <Haetnimgajog>

  • Launched ‘Mon Cher’
  • Employee welfare building completed at Yeongdeungpo Plant
  • Breathmint gum ‘Flavono’ launched

Breathmint gum Flavono launched

  • First confectionery company to exceed USD 10 Million in exports
  • Received the 10 Million Export Tower award on the 26th annual Trade Day
  • Head office and LOTTE R&D Center relocated
  • KRW 30 billion monthly revenue surpassed
  • Launched ‘Custard’

Head office and LOTTE R&D Center relocated

  • Marketing as official confectionery parther of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games
  • Entry into the functional chewing gum market through the launch of ‘No-Time Gum’ gum
  • Launch of ‘Herb Candy’ throat pastilles, the grandfather of functional candies
  • Launched ‘Megaton Bar’

Entry into the functional chewing gum market through the launch of ‘No-Time Gum’ gum

  • Launched ‘Margaret’

Launched ‘Margaret’

1 9 8 6 ~
1 9 7 7
The company becomes a general confectioneries company
Launch of mega-hit products and explosive
growth in revenues
  • World Cone launched: a revolution in ice cream cones
  • Monthly revenues KRW 20 billion and annual revenues KRW 200 billion exceeded

World Cone launched: a revolution in ice cream cones

  • Exclusive designation as official confectionery provider for the 1986 Seoul Asian Games and 1988 Seoul Olympic Games
  • LOTTE Confectionery Ladies ‘Academy’ opened
  • Launched ‘Screw Bar’
  • Master plan finalized for company-wide quality control initiative (TQC)
  • First in Korea to adopt MGM process
  • Launched ‘Kancho’
  • Launched ‘Harvest’
  • Los Angeles office opened

Launched ‘Kancho’

  • LOTTE R&D Center established
  • Pyeongtaek Plant completed
  • Launched ‘Pepero’
  • Launched ‘Kokkal Corn’
  • Launched ‘Jaws Bar’
  • Ice cream specialty store ‘LOTTE Bianco’ opened
  • LOTTE Confectionery's first overseas office established in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • Yangsan Plant opened to visitors (2,400 visitors annually)

Yangsan Plant opened to visitors (2,400 visitors annually)

  • Launched ‘Vegetable Crecker’
  • ‘Watdabo(왔다볼)’ Launched (renamed ‘Cuttlefish Snack(땅콩 오징어)’ in 1986)
  • Monthly revenue KRW 10 billion and annual revenue KRW 100 billion exceeded

Launched ‘Vegetable Crecker’

  • Ice cream line completed at Yangsan Plant
  • The classic ‘Butter Coconut’ biscuit launched
  • ‘Choco Pie’ launched (renamed ‘Cocoa Pie’ in 1985)

The classic ‘Butter Coconut’ biscuit launched

  • Biscuit line completed at Yangsan Plant
  • Ten Million Won Lilac Scholarship customer appreciation quiz campaign

Biscuit line completed at Yangsan Plant

  • Ice cream line operations begins at the Yeongdeungpo Plant
  • Entry into the ice cream market
  • Organizational reshuffling for management rationalization, launch of new businesses and achievement to sales targets
  • LOTTE Family Appreciation Festival on the 10th anniversary of the company's founding
  • Launched ‘LOTTE Sand’
  • German equipment adopted for production of the Vanilla Wafers product

Ice cream line operations begins at the Yeongdeungpo Plant

1 9 7 6 ~
1 9 7 3
Growth of LOTTE Confectionery
IPO, management rationalization and the
launch of ‘Ghana Chocolate’
  • ZD (Zero Defects) campaign
  • Entered the snack market with the launch of Lotte Confectionery's first snack ‘Bumbina(붐비나)’

LOTTE Confectionery's first snack ‘Bumbina(붐비나)’

  • Chocolate line constructed at Yeongdeungpo Plant
  • A first step into the chocolate market
  • Product Briefing
  • Launched ‘Eve Gum’
  • LOTTE Angels organized
  • "Bisja Gum(빗자껌)" enterde the US

Launched ‘Ghana Chocolate’

  • Korea's first transparent candy ‘Dia Jucicy(다이아쥬시)’ launched
  • Depositor-made ‘Scotch Candy’ launched
  • 40 direct sales offices estavlished countrywide
  • Monthly revenues of KRW 1 blillion and annual revenues of KRW 10 billion exceeded

Korea's first transparent candy ‘Dia Jucicy(다이아쥬시)’ launched

  • Popular subscription, capital increase and intial public offering (KRW 1.3 billion 22.41 million)
  • Introduction of depositor equipment for transparent candy production
  • Sobyeongbyeong(소병병) Gum exports to Taiwan begin

Popular subscription, capital increase and intial public offering (KRW 1.3 billion 22.41 million)

1 9 7 2 ~
1 9 6 7
Establishment of LOTTE Confectionery
The beginnings of LOTTE's gum empire and
the success of ‘big gum’
  • Launched a large-sized gum ‘LOTTE Gum Three Musketeers’
  • First Annual Miss LOTTE Competition

‘LOTTE Gum Three Musketeers’

  • A transition from consigned wholesale to direct sales : a first for the confectionery industry
  • Ultra high-speed automatic packing machine introduced to the Yeongdeungpo Plant for gum mass production

Ultra high-speed automatic packing AC M/C

  • Cum base production at the Siheung Plant : a first step in localization of gum production
  • LOTTE Confectionery's first hit product ‘왔다껌(Watda Gum)’ launched

A LOTTE Confectionery truck from the 1970s

  • Siheung factory completed
  • Completion of Yeongdeungpo Factory
  • ‘Name the Next LOTTE Candy’ competition

Yeongdeungpo Factory

  • Branch offices establiched in five cities : Seoul, Daegu, Daejeon and Gwangju
  • "Beat Corona with LOTTE Gum’ giveaway

LOTTE sales agents engaged in sales promotions activities

  • Incorporation of LOTTE CONFECTIONERY CO., LTD.
  • The birth of the ‘Heatnim(햇님)’ mark
  • Establishment of labor union
  • Produced ‘Cool Mint Gum(쿨민트껌)’, ‘Barb Mint Gum(바브민트껌)’, ‘Nutrition Drops(영양드롭프스)’, ‘Ling-geuseondeu(링그선드)’, ‘Soft Caramel(소프트캬라멜)’, ‘Cream Sand(크림산도)’, and ‘Butter Cream Bread(빠다크림빵)’
  • Operations begin at Plant 1 in Galweol-dong, Yongsan-gu, and Plant 2 in Yangpyeong-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu

The birth of the ‘Heatnim(햇님)’ mark