Orion Confectionery
| Orion Confectionery | |
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| Korean name | |
|---|---|
| Hangul | 오리온제과 |
| Hanja | 五里溫製菓 |
| Revised Romanization | Orion Jegwa |
| McCune–Reischauer | Orion Chegwa |
Orion Confectionery Co, Ltd. (Hangul: 주식회사 오리온; RR: Jusikhoesa Orion, KRX: 001800) is a South Korean confectionery company, headquartered in Munbae-dong, Yongsan District, Seoul.[1] The company is one of the three largest food companies in South Korea, and was established in 1956 as Tongyang Confectionery Corp.[2] Orion has manufacturing facilities in Seoul, Cheonan Chungcheongnam-do and cities in China, Russia, Vietnam, and the United States. Products produced by Orion include biscuits, cookies, crackers, pies, gum, snacks, chocolate, and candy; and its most famous product is Choco Pie. Its competitors include Crown Confectionery and Lotte Confectionery. Orion was the parent company of the entertainment company On-Media, until its acquisition by the CJ Group in 2010.
The company began offering the Choco Pie in 1974. By 2006, it had two thirds of the Chinese cookie market.[3]
Orion maintains a "Choco Pie Index" created as a parody of The Economist's Big Mac Index.[4]
Competitors
- Crown Confectionery
- Lotte Confectionery
- Morinaga & Company
- Nabisco
- Glico
- Wrigley Company
- Mondelez International
See also
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- ↑ "Location." Orion Confectionery. Retrieved on March 28, 2014. "ORION, OSI 30-10 Munbai-dong Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea"
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- ↑ "Cookie Monster." Forbes. February 27, 2006. Retrieved on March 31, 2014. "[...]Orion’s snack quickly overwhelmed rival products in China to take a two-thirds share of the cookie market, not a bad position to hold in an economy that’s expanding by 10% a year."
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