Pulmuone Offers Voluntary Retirement for Employees With Over Five Years of Service to Enhance Workforce Efficiency

Voluntary Retirement Applications from August 18 to 30 for Full-Time Employees
Severance Payments Differ Based on Years of Service
First Half Operating Profit Up 42% Year-on-Year

To improve the efficiency of workforce management, Pulmuone is implementing a voluntary retirement program for full-time employees with at least five years of service.

According to the related industry on August 14, Pulmuone announced its "2026 Voluntary Retirement Implementation Notice" via the company bulletin board on this day. Eligible applicants are full-time employees whose length of service is five years or more as of their retirement date. Production workers, sales promoters, and contract employees are excluded from this program.

The application period will run from August 18 to August 30. The severance payment for voluntary retirees will vary according to their length of service. Employees with less than 10 years of service will receive the equivalent of 12 months' base annual salary. For those with 10 years or more but less than 21 years, payment will be 13 months' base salary plus an additional one month’s salary for each year of service. For those with 21 years or more, the maximum limit of 24 months' base salary will be applied. Employees with less than two years left until retirement age will receive the full base salary for the remaining period as severance payment.

A Pulmuone representative explained, "This voluntary retirement program is being implemented to proactively respond to the rapidly changing external management environment and shifts in industrial structure, as well as to restructure our organization and workforce management more efficiently and with a forward-looking approach from a long-term perspective, in order to secure sustainable competitiveness." The company further noted, "This program will be conducted on a voluntary basis among employees who meet the specified length of service, and participation will be based on employees’ own decisions." They added, "Through this initiative, we plan to respond more flexibly to the evolving management environment and further improve the efficiency of our organizational and workforce management to strengthen our business competitiveness going forward."

Meanwhile, on this day, Pulmuone released its semiannual report, announcing the business performance for the first half and the second quarter of this year. For the first half of 2026 on a consolidated basis, operating profit was 43.7 billion won, up 41.9% year-on-year, while sales reached 1.7439 trillion won, an increase of 6.8%. In the second quarter, sales amounted to 893.6 billion won, up 6.5% compared to the same period last year, and operating profit was 24.6 billion won, up 26.0%.

A Pulmuone spokesperson stated, "In the second quarter, we laid the groundwork for both top-line growth and profitability improvement in our overseas business," adding that "the domestic business continued to generate steady profits through the food service distribution segment." They went on to say, "In the second half of the year, we intend to maintain solid, profitability-driven growth by continuing profit generation in the domestic business and sustainable growth in overseas operations."

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