Lotte duty-free ambitions hinge on S Korea store licence
Seoul
FIVE bidders covet three lucrative downtown duty free licences to be issued by South Korea on Saturday, and arguably none is more desperate for a win than Lotte Duty Free.
The world's No 3 duty-free retailer's ambitions to one day become the world's biggest operator were thwarted this year by a criminal investigation that forced its parent, Lotte Group, to scrap a multi-billion-dollar IPO. A win on Saturday would allow the beleaguered South Korean conglomerate to reopen a Seoul mega-store and revive its goal of global duty-free dominance.
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