With the attractiveness that has been affirmed in the international retail market, nowadays more and more foreign investors decided to set up company in Vietnam. With the scale of 110 billion USD by 2016 and forecasted to increase to 180 billion USD by 2020, Vietnam is considered one of the 30 most attractive retail markets … Read more
The billion-dollar acquisitions of Thai billionaires have brought Thailand to become a formidable force in M&A activities in Vietnam and Asia. Big C Vietnam has fallen into the hands of billionaire Tos Chirathivat – the boss of Central Group (Thailand) from Casino Group (France) for 1.05 billion USD. In 2015, this group also spent about … Read more
After 5 years of conducting the survey and researching the market of Vietnam, the leading retail group from Korea – Emart (owned by Shinsegae Group) has officially entered Vietnam market by opening the first Emart hypermarket in Vietnam on December 28th 2015 in 366 Phan Van Tri street, ward 5, Go Vap district, Ho Chi … Read more
The information was published by Reuters on April 29th. The winner in the race to acquire Big C Vietnam is Central Group, a corporation from Thailand. According to Reuters, Casino – the French retailer has officially announced to sold Big C Vietnam to Central Group from Thailand for 1.14 billion USD. This is a move … Read more
France’s leading retail group – Auchan – on November 3rd has officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Military Petrochemical JSC (MIPEC). Together, Auchan has signed lease contract with Long Bien Commercial Center, which was invested by MIPEC to implement retail supermarket chains named “Simply Mart” in the northern market. This event has marked a … Read more