CJ Olive Young will increase investment outside the Seoul metropolitan area this year, spending 123.8 billion won on new openings, renovations and logistics upgrades, industry sources said. The company is focusing less on adding locations and more on boosting competitiveness and operating efficiency at existing stores, citing rising needs for in-store infrastructure upgrades such as electronic labels. It plans to place more than half of its large stores outside the capital region.

CJ Olive Young said on Monday it will introduce Google Cloud\'s Gemini Enterprise across its workforce to enhance job expertise based on data and artificial intelligence. The company described Gemini Enterprise as an AI platform that helps firms build and use AI tools tailored to their needs using their own data. It plans to expand the use of generative AI across operations, including store merchandising, inventory management and global business support.