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- CJ Corporation (001040.KS) is a South Korean conglomerate holding company that manages investments across food and food services, bio, logistics and retail, entertainment and media, and infrastructure sectors worldwide. Founded in 1953 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, the company manufactures and sells processed foods including frozen and refrigerated items, seasonings such as Dashida and nucleic acid products, beverages, cooking oils under Beksul, meat products, aseptic packaged rice under Hetbahn, and functional foods; it operates restaurants and bars through brands like Foodville, VIPS, and A Twosome Place; provides wholesale, retail, and e-commerce of bay salt, livestock feeds, food ingredients, and cosmetics; engages in bio products like lysine, methionine, threonine, enzymes, and life science research including vaccines and pharmaceuticals; offers logistics, storage, delivery, inland transportation, and freight services; and delivers entertainment services encompassing content production, music labels, animation, broadcasting, film distribution, movie theaters, performance planning, and celebrity management. Its operations span South Korea, China, Japan, the United States, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Hungary, and other regions in Asia, North America, and Europe, targeting consumers, retailers, expatriate communities, and industrial clients. In December 2025, CJ CheilJedang, a key subsidiary, partnered with Thailand's CP Axtra to expand Bibigo K-food products across over 2,700 stores in Southeast Asia; in September 2025, it formed a food sector alliance with Japan's ITOCHU for raw material supply, product sales expansion, and new developments in Japan, South Korea, and global markets; and the group completed a bibigo dumpling plant in Chiba, Japan, while advancing facilities in Hungary by 2026 and South Dakota, U.S., by 2027.