LOTTE Corporation operates in food, retail, chemicals, construction, manufacturing, tourism, services, and finance worldwide. Its food business includes confectionery, beverages, liquor, food ingredients, processed foods, coffee, powdered drinks, and petcare products, and it also imports and sells wine and runs a restaurant franchise. The company operates department stores, supermarkets, convenience stores, home shopping and e-commerce platforms, and a multiplex movie theater, and it manufactures petrochemicals, aluminium anode foil, organic chemicals, acetic acid, VAM, hydrogen, office machinery, electronic instruments, synthetic resins, and synthetic textiles. It also engages in housing, architecture, civil engineering, plant construction, logistics, port operations, equipment rental, resorts, hotels, LOTTE World Tower and Mall, theme parks, golf courses, culture and arts, social welfare, education consultancy, real estate and financial consulting, and owns a professional baseball team. Formerly known as Lotte Confectionery Co. Ltd., it changed its name to LOTTE Corporation in October 2017; it was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.