April 19, 2024
Economy
Unfair intra-affiliate transactions rise 23%
[THE INVESTOR] Unfair intra-affiliate transactions by business conglomerates rose by 23.1 percent last year, despite the government‘s efforts to clamp down on such business practices, industry data showed on June 7.
According to the data by corporate tracker CEO Score, the value of unfair in-house transactions by 91 affiliates of conglomerates rose by 1.4 trillion won (US$1.20 billion) from two years ago to 7.9 trillion won last year.
The total value of intra-affiliate transactions by 984 affiliates, however, fell 13.7 percent from two years ago to 133.6 trillion won, the data showed.
A listed affiliate with an owner holding more than 30 percent of the affiliate is banned from doing business transactions with other firms in the same conglomerate. For an unlisted unit, the ownership restriction is 20 percent.
Lotte Group saw its intra-affiliate transactions jump to 572.6 billion won last year, compared with 3.1 billion won in 2014.
Samsung Group and Hyosung Group also saw their intra-affiliate transactions grow 284 percent and 67 percent, respectively.
Hyundai Motor Group’s intra-affiliate transactions fell 97.4 percent to 26.8 billion won, according to the data.
By Alex Lee and newswires (alexlee@heraldcorp.com)
According to the data by corporate tracker CEO Score, the value of unfair in-house transactions by 91 affiliates of conglomerates rose by 1.4 trillion won (US$1.20 billion) from two years ago to 7.9 trillion won last year.
The total value of intra-affiliate transactions by 984 affiliates, however, fell 13.7 percent from two years ago to 133.6 trillion won, the data showed.
A listed affiliate with an owner holding more than 30 percent of the affiliate is banned from doing business transactions with other firms in the same conglomerate. For an unlisted unit, the ownership restriction is 20 percent.
Lotte Group saw its intra-affiliate transactions jump to 572.6 billion won last year, compared with 3.1 billion won in 2014.
Samsung Group and Hyosung Group also saw their intra-affiliate transactions grow 284 percent and 67 percent, respectively.
Hyundai Motor Group’s intra-affiliate transactions fell 97.4 percent to 26.8 billion won, according to the data.
By Alex Lee and newswires (alexlee@heraldcorp.com)
