Lotte Corporation

Lotte Corporation
	Logo used since 2017
Native name	롯데그룹;
Company type	Public
Traded as	KRX: 004990
Industry	Conglomerate
Founded	March 24, 1967
Founder	Shin Kyuk-ho
Headquarters	Songpa District, Seoul, South Korea
Areas served	Worldwide
Key people	Shin Kyuk-ho; Shin Dong-bin;
Subsidiaries	Lotte Capital; Lotte Chemical; Lotte Chilsung; Lotte Global Logistics; Lotte Shopping; Lotte Wellfood;
Korean name
Hangul	롯데그룹
Revised Romanization	Rotdegeurup
McCune–Reischauer	Rottegŭrup, Rotte-kŭrup
Website	www.lotte.co.kr

Lotte Corporation is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation, and the fifth-largest chaebol in South Korea.^[1] Lotte was founded 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 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.^[2] Lotte runs additional businesses in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Uzbekistan, India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Russia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Pakistan, Poland (Lotte bought Poland's largest candy company Wedel from Kraft Foods in June 2010), Australia and New Zealand (Lotte successfully bought 4 duty-free stores in Australia and 1 in New Zealand from JR/Group in 2019^[3]).