Kim Hong-gi CJ CEO "Successful Execution of Mid-term Strategy... Investment Focused on Innovative Growth Businesses"

Kim Hong-gi, CEO of CJ, stated on the 29th at the 70th regular shareholders' meeting held at the CJ Human Resources Development Center in Pildong, Jung-gu, Seoul, "We will do our best to successfully execute the newly established 2025 mid-term strategy and leap forward as a global lifestyle company."

CJ CEO Kim Hong-gi is delivering a greeting at the shareholders' meeting held on the 29th at the Talent Center in Jung-gu, Seoul.
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CEO Kim said, "Our affiliates will invest focusing on newly reorganized innovative growth businesses based on the four major future growth engines C.P.W.S (Culture, Platform, Wellness, Sustainability), while securing financial stability," adding, "We will achieve innovative growth through proactive acquisition and nurturing of top talent and fundamental organizational culture improvement, reestablish and early build the core business's super-gap capabilities to secure and strengthen structural competitiveness."

He continued, "Last year was the first year of endemic transition and global inflation, accelerating structural changes not only in the health sector but also in the economy and geopolitics," but evaluated, "Despite these difficult management conditions, CJ Group made strenuous efforts and achieved record-high performance last year as well."

Referring to specific achievements by major affiliates, CEO Kim added, "Although this year's management environment is expected to be as challenging as last year, the rapidly changing domestic and international management environment is both a crisis and a great opportunity for CJ Group."

Finally, he emphasized, "CJ has penetrated the daily lives of people worldwide through the power of culture such as food, film, and music, and beyond K-brands, it has grown industries with the power of the CJ brand, providing a stage for young people to take on challenges," adding, "We will take one step further to leap forward as a future lifestyle company designing new lives for people worldwide and share the fruits with our shareholders."

Meanwhile, at the shareholders' meeting, the agenda to appoint former Seoul National University Hospital Director Kim Yeon-su and former Financial Services Commission Chairman Choi Jong-gu as outside directors was passed.