Our History - orionindia

We are the Originals Since 1956

Orion was founded in 1956 when the company’s founder and chairman, Mr. Lee Yang-gu, took over Pungkook Confectionery. Since then, Orion has grown from strength to strength by leading the country’s confectionery market with a wide variety of popular products like Poca Chips, Choco Pie, Kkobuk Chip, Market O, Dr. You, etc.

After pioneering many South Korea’s manufacturing facilities for confectioneries, we have extended our business operations from a confectionery maker into a total food player.

Rise of The Originals

1956

1956

Orion was founded.
1958

1958

Began using automatic moulding machine for the making of soft biscuits.
1965

1965

Started developing premium level products.
1968

1968

Switched to automatic candy packaging.
1977

1977

Introduced South Korea’s first-ever automatic biscuit packaging process.
1988

1988

Launched Poca Chips.
1989

1989

Mr. Tam Chul Kon was appointed as President and CEO.

1989

Launched ‘Jeong’ Choco Pie advertisement series.
1995

1995

Established ORION Food, a local subsidiary in China.
2001

2001

Established ORION Group.
2003

2003

The company’s name was changed to Orion Corporation.
2006

2006

Built manufacturing facilities in My Phuoc, Vietnam, and Tver, Russia.
2008

2008

Launched Dr. You and Market O.
2013

2013

Annual sales in China exceeded USD 913.2 million.
2015

2015

Cumulative sales in Vietnam exceeded USD 883.8 million.
2016

2016

Annual sales in Vietnam exceeded USD 172.3 million.

2016

Operating profit exceeded USD 258.5 million.
2018

2018

Launched ‘Market O NATURE’.
2020

2020

Entry into India.