South Korean Food Giant Aims To Take A Bite Of The $2 Trillion Global Halal Food Market

South Korean foods huge SPC Team designs to grow into Malaysia to choose a chunk of the $2 trillion global halal food items market.

SPC Team explained it plans to commit 40 billion received (about $30 million) to build a halal-accredited manufacturing unit in Johor, a Malaysian condition bordering Singapore. South Korean media documented that the place, with a seaport, will give the manufacturing facility a channel to ship merchandise all through Southeast Asia and into the Center East.

The deal is led by Hur Jin-soo, the eldest son of SPC Group chairman Hur Youthful-in, recognised as South Korea’s “Franchise King.” Jin-soo was named president of Paris Croissant, a subsidiary of SPC Group that operates the flagship Paris Baguette bakery café franchise brand name, in December.

SPC Group also operates 1,800 Dunkin’ Donuts shops and Baskin Robbins ice cream parlors, as nicely as Pascucci (Italian café), The Environment Vine (wine), Jamba Juice (smoothies) and New York burger household Shake Shack in Korea.

The Johor factory will make 100 types of bread, cakes and sauces—all geared up in accordance with Islamic legislation. The manufacturing unit is scheduled to be done in June future yr. SPC Team has also set up a 50-50 joint enterprise with Malaysia’s Berjaya Foodstuff, which operates Starbucks espresso outlets and 7-Eleven ease retailers in Malaysia.

“Halal hub has been an important system in the Malaysian food items sector,” suggests Alizan Mahadi, a senior director of research for Kuala Lumpur-based feel tank Institute of Strategic & Global Reports Malaysia. “Malaysia has some of the best expectations for halal certification and hence it is [recognized] inside the Muslim globe.”

Officers in Kuala Lumpur have labored towards standardizing halal foods because 1974, when a primary minister’s business office study arm started to challenge halal certification letters. The Southeast Asian place released its 1st halal expectations in 2000, forward of other Muslim nations. The benchmarks elevated a “cottage industry” to a “vibrant new economy” with an approximated $2.3 trillion current market benefit, the Malaysian government’s Islamic Tourism Centre suggests.