LG CNS, an AX specialist, said on Jan. 27 it recorded 2025 sales of 6.13 trillion won and operating profit of 555.8 billion won. Sales rose 2.5 percent from a year earlier and operating profit increased 8.4 percent. The operating margin rose 0.5 percentage point from a year earlier to 9.1 percent. Fourth-quarter sales were tallied at 1.94 trillion won and operating profit at 216.0 billion won.

By business segment, annual sales in AI and cloud rose 7 percent from a year earlier to 3.59 trillion won.

In AI, LG CNS has secured external customers across a range of industries including finance, manufacturing and the public sector. It has moved to fully launch businesses using its agentic AI full-stack platform AgenticWorks, and it has also strengthened AX businesses applying AI services from three global cloud providers. It is participating in the LG AI Research Institute consortium’s proprietary AI foundation model project for selection of a “national representative AI,” taking roles including developing fine-tuning methodologies and collecting and refining data.

In cloud, LG CNS stressed it is delivering results in its data centre DBO (Design, Build, Operation) business based on its One LG solution.

Annual sales in smart engineering came to 1.19 trillion won. Its smart logistics business expanded its portfolio to beauty, food, fashion and the defence industry. Its smart factory business is steadily carrying out projects won in defence (smart engineering business), semiconductors (automated inspection equipment business) and pharmaceuticals (production management system business), and it is expanding sales of lightweight smart factory solutions for small and mid-sized manufacturers.

Annual sales in digital business services came to 1.35 trillion won. LG CNS won major financial IT projects last year from Korea Securities Depository, Mirae Asset Life Insurance and NH Nonghyup Bank, among others.

LG CNS will strengthen its position this year as a domestic AX and RX operator. For its agentic AI business, it plans to additionally develop specialised agents by industry and task that can be embedded in platforms including AgenticWorks.

LG CNS is also strategically pushing ahead with a physical AI business to secure future growth engines. Using robot foundation models (RFM), it plans to fine-tune and advance robot movements with industrial-site data, secure its own integrated robot operations platform and strengthen RX (robot transformation) capabilities.

LG CNS will continue expanding business in global markets this year including the United States and the Asia-Pacific region. For logistics and manufacturing AX, it is expanding a robot deployment business in North America aimed at fully automating factories of affiliates. For data centres, it won a project to build an AI data centre overseas, in Indonesia, and is preparing to expand to Vietnam and elsewhere.