January 8, 2012
A clothes shop offers discount of 50 percent in Hanoi. Vietnamese consumers like to purchase products on sale, a survey has found. All major retailers have been offering attractive discounts to encourage recession-wary shoppers to loosen their purse strings for the festive season, and the initial response has been positive. The discount sales began prior [...]
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November 26, 2011
A woman pulls shopping carts through the aisle of a Target store on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling [...]
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November 25, 2011
A man loads a flat screen television into his car on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Bargain hunters flocked to stores late Thursday and overnight Friday, searching for deals on big screen televisions, video games and toys while fretting about their own shaky economic well-being. Some stores, [...]
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November 3, 2011
An online coupon sent via email from Groupon is pictured on a laptop screen November 29, 2010 in Los Angeles. Groupon Inc is poised to price its initial public offering $1 to $2 above its current range, responding to stronger-than-anticipated demand for the biggest US IPO in months, three buyside sources said on Wednesday. The [...]
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October 12, 2011
Fresh from a crisis meeting with France on the euro, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was due to embark Monday on a visit to Vietnam and Mongolia hoping to push deals on trade and precious raw materials. Ahead of the four-day visit, Merkel, who will be accompanied by top business leaders eyeing up investment opportunities, [...]
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June 4, 2011
A garment factory in Bien Hoa, Vietnam Vietnam’s investment environment is bright and open, according to a team of analysts. The country’s level of market access is right on par with Singapore’s, said Oliver Massmann at a business gathering in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday. Massmann serves as a partner at Duane Morris Vietnam [...]
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February 1, 2010
Overall merger and acquisition values and volumes appear to have returned to a growth path in 2009’s fourth quarter giving grounds for optimism for 2010, writes an advisory partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Vietnam. Major Vietnamese conglomerates are growingly removing smaller rivals through M&A deals.LookAtVietnam – A slow start, but a strong finish to the year. Overall [...]
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January 26, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Economists believe that merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in 2010 will be seen mostly in consumer goods, entertainment and media, and financial services. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and Thomson Reuters, the total number of M&A cases for 2009 was 295, an increase of 77 percent over 2008. The total value of M&A cases wrapped [...]
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January 24, 2010
Vietnamese diplomats will play a consultative role for local businesses looking to boost trade and investment ties with foreign partners and avoid cross-border conflicts, newly appointed envoys said last week. Diplomats are in a more favorable position to collect information about businesses in the countries they are posted in, and can inform Vietnamese businesses accordingly, [...]
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November 12, 2009
The rise in gold prices has made its way to the local real estate market, hurting deals in which the precious metal is used as currency. Pham Van Hai, general director at Ho Chi Minh City-based ACB Real Estate Company, said the high price of gold has halted purchases of houses listed in bullion, especially [...]
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