.. Organizational Restructuring
  A.The Characteristics of Organizational Restructuring at HITE
     
    Management Innovation Office was set up under Business Planning Department
.. - The new Office launched HITE-2000 campaign across the organization pushing for mind-set change and redefinition of management principle
   
    Corporate Targets Newly Established

     
Brewing
.. To become No. 1 in the Korean beer market by active market expansion efforts (Korea's representative beer)
.. To grow and develop HITE as a global brand
.. To become a world class brewery by 2000
To become a large corporation that encompasses construction, beverage, communications, distribution, leisure, service, and packaging business


       
  B.An aggressive marketing organization at the Sales Department
       
    Reengineering of New Product Development
     
Before the establishment of a marketing organization, the sales department just managed advertisement and sold with a sales target once the plant finished product development. However, with the new organization, the sales department got involved in the early stage of product development. They first assessed the needs of the consumers through market survey and then send requests to the plant. In other words, it was a remarkable shift from production-oriented to customer-oriented product development.
       
    Strategic Mind-Set from the Distribution Bureau Level
     
To properly assess each local market and develop localized marketing strategy, Marketing Team was set up at each distribution bureau.
       
    Launching of Market Development Team to Strengthen Weak Distribution Channel
     
To reduce clogging in the distribution channel caused by the competitor's unfair use of power as market leader, we created an even more aggressive marketing force by adopting new ideas such as R/S (Route Sales) and M/L (Marketing Lady: to develop good relationship with client stores)
       
    Marketing Ever Close to the Customers
     
We divided the nation into four areas (Seoul, Gyunggi-Kangwon, Choongchung-Honam, Youngnam) and relocated our senior managers in each area so that they were close to their customers, to the distribution bureau managers while creating internal competition among the four marketing areas
       
    Public Relations Department Newly Set-UP
     
By having a public relations organization, we were able to actively manage relations with the media and the corporate image, and started to publish corporate journal