January 17, 2012
Food retail sales in Ho Chi Minh City witnessed “skyrocketing growth” in recent year, a report said Despite economic difficulties the retail market in Ho Chi Minh City expanded last year as top retailers and brands continued to come in, property consultant Knight Frank said in a new report. The retail sales value of goods [...]
Tags: brands, Chi minh, Chi minh city, Food Retail, Food Retail Sales, Frank, growth, Growth Rdquo, Ho Chi, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, In Recent Year, International, International Brands, knight, Knight Frank, Knight Frank Said, Last year, Ldquo, Ldquo Skyrocketing, Ldquo Skyrocketing Growth, Ldquo Skyrocketing Growth Rdquo, market, Minh city, rates, Rdquo, Rdquo Knight, Rdquo Knight Frank, Rdquo Knight Frank Said, Recent Year, Report:, retail, Retail sales, retailers, Retailers And Brands, sales, Skyrocketing Growth, Skyrocketing Growth Rdquo, The company, The Entrance, The market, The Retail, Top Retailers, Witnessed Ldquo, Witnessed Ldquo Skyrocketing, Witnessed Ldquo Skyrocketing Growth
Posted in Business | Comments Off
December 23, 2011
A Petrolimex gas station in Hanoi Economists suspect that Vietnam’s biggest fuel companies, particularly Petrolimex, may have deliberately reported huge losses and shifted profits to subsidiaries to evade tax. A recent inspection of major oil importers, including Petrolimex, found that they paid retailers, many of them its own subsidiaries, higher commissions than allowed and reported huge losses. [...]
Tags: Commissions, companies, company, Fuel Companies, High Commissions, importers, Its Subsidiaries, losses, Petrolimex, Petrolimex May Have, Petrolimex Paid, profits, reported, Reported Losses, retailers, Said Calling, Said Petrolimex, Subsidiaries, Thanh nien, The company, The ministry, Tuoi Tre, Vietnam
Posted in Business | Comments Off
December 18, 2011
A Salvation Army band performs for shoppers in London on the final Saturday before Christmas on what is traditionally one of the busiest retail days. Europeans are tightening their belts and spending less on Christmas gifts this year as they struggle with incomes hit by austerity measures or fear the economy could worsen in [...]
Tags: According, Association, Austerity, Austerity Measures, Average, Average Sale, Average Sale Amount, belt-tightening, Billion Euros, Christmas, Christmas Gifts, Consumers, countries, crisis, Euros, expects, France, Gift Giving, gifts, holiday, Holiday Spending, Italians, Ldquo, Ldquo Christmas, measures, On Christmas Gifts, percent, Portugal, presents, Rdquo, retail, Retail Association, retailers, sales, spending, Spending Cuts, survey, Tax Hikes, The crisis, The Retail, The Retail Association, The Web, Their Christmas, Their Spending, This Christmas, This year, Tightening, Web Retailers
Posted in International | Comments Off
December 16, 2011
Vietnam authorities have asked four dairy firms to explain their price increases after some products were raised up to 18 percent. The companies will be subject to legal responsibility if their increases are found irrelevant to input costs, the Finance Ministry said in a statement December 9. Early this month, Mead Johnson, Nestle Vietnam, Tien Tien [...]
Tags: costs, Dairy, Dairy Firms, firms, increases, Mead Johnson, Of The Increases, percent, price, Price Increases, prices, products, retailers, The Firms, The Increases, Vietnam
Posted in Business | Comments Off
December 12, 2011
Easup market in Vietnam Central Highlands on December 7 caught fire, destroying goods worth around US$1 million. A market fire in Vietnam Central Highlands early Wednesday caused property damage estimated at more than US$1 million dollars. Â The fire started at around 1 a.m. and burned down goods of more than 100 retailers at Easup [...]
Tags: Affected Retailers, Central, Central highlands, Easup Market, goods, In Vietnam Central, In Vietnam Central Highlands, market, Market Fire, retailers, The Affected, The Affected Retailers, The fire, Vietnam, Vietnam Central, Vietnam Central Highlands
Posted in Social | Comments Off
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 [...]
Tags: 000 people, After Thanksgiving, Around The Country, At Stores Such, At The Mall, Bags Full, black, Black Friday, Black Friday Rdquo, Country, Crowd, deals, Friday, Friday Rdquo, holiday, Holiday Season, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Shopping Season, hours:, jersey, Last year, Ldquo, Ldquo Black, Ldquo Black Friday, Ldquo Black Friday Rdquo, market, Midnight, mobile, More Shoppers, More Than The, morning, New Jersey, New york, Online, opened, people, percent, Rdquo, really, retail, retailers, sales, Santa Monica, season, Season Ldquo, shoppers, shopping, Shopping Season, start, Still Worried, Still Worried About, store, stores, target, Thanksgiving, The country, The Crowd, The economy, The Mall, The morning, The Season, The Store, This year, Thursday, Walmart, worried
Posted in International | Comments Off
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, [...]
Tags: 000 people, 152 Million, 152 Million People, Amazon Com, black, Black Friday, Black Friday Deals, Black Friday Rdquo, Buy Things, Chains, deals, Doorbuster Rdquo, Doorbuster Rdquo Deals, Expects 152, Expects 152 Million, Expects 152 Million People, Friday, Friday Deals, Friday Rdquo, From Last Year, going, Hit Stores, Hit Stores This, Hit Stores This Weekend, holiday, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Shopping Season, Last year, Last Year Wal, Last Year Wal Mart, Ldquo, Ldquo Black, Ldquo Black Friday, Ldquo Black Friday Rdquo, Ldquo Doorbuster, Ldquo Doorbuster Rdquo, Ldquo Doorbuster Rdquo Deals, Midnight, Million People, New york, offering, Online, opened, Opening, Openings, people, percent, Percent From Last, Percent From Last Year, Percent Increase, Rdquo, Rdquo Deals, really, retailers, sales, season, shoppers, shopping, Shopping Season, Some Shoppers, Square, store, stores, Stores This Weekend, Thanksgiving, The first, The Recession, The Shopping, The Store, The Stores, This Weekend, Thursday, To Hit Stores, To Hit Stores This, Up 10, Wal Mart, weekend, Year Wal, Year Wal Mart
Posted in International | Comments Off
August 28, 2011
Workers at An Nhien cuddly toy factory in HCMC stuff garment waste into the toys. Many teddy bears in Ho Chi Minh City are stuffed with garment waste, discharged mattress, and old spongy materials, which doctors blamed as a major cause of respiratory diseases in children. Â The products target workers and low-income earners, while [...]
Tags: An Nhien Cuddly, At The Factory, At The Factory Said, children, cotton, Cotton Wool, Cuddly, Cuddly Toy, Cuddly Toy Factory, Cuddly Toys, customers, District, Environment, factory, garment, Garment Waste, health, In The City, In The City Said, kilogram, Ldquo, materials, Nhien Cuddly, Of The Toy, owner, price, products, Rdquo, retailers, Said ldquo, Street Vendor, Stuff, Stuffing, Teddy, Teddy Bear, Teddy Bears, Thanh, The Business, The city, The City Said, The Environment, The Factory, The Factory Said, The Stuffing, The Toy, The Toys, The Tuoi, The Tuoi Tre, The Tuoi Tre Weekly, The Users, toxic, Toy Factory, Tre Weekly, Tuoi Tre, Tuoi Tre Weekly, Vnd40 000, waste:
Posted in Health | Comments Off
June 22, 2011
C.T Plaza shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Binh District The Japan Retailers Association has met with officials of Vietnamese C.T Group to discuss cooperation and retail opportunities in both countries. The goal of the cooperation is to bring famous Japanese products into Vietnam, the Saigon Times news website reported Friday. C.T Group [...]
Tags: Binh District, center, Chi minh, Chi minh city, group, Ho Chi, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, Japan Retailers, Japan Retailers Association, Japanese, Japanese Retailers, market, Minh city, retail, retailers, Retailers Association, shopping, Shopping Center, Tan Binh, Tan Binh District, The Japan, The Japan Retailers, The Japan Retailers Association, The japanese, Vietnam
Posted in Business | Comments Off
June 11, 2011
Vietnam continued to lose its appeal to retail investors this year, even though prospects for modern retail formats remain positive, according to a report by global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. The country moved down nine spots to 23rd place in A.T. Kearney’s index of top ranked developing countries that retailers should enter. Vietnam [...]
Tags: 6th Place, Foreign Retailers, Kearney, Ldquo, market, Modern Retail, Modern Retail Formats, place, Rdquo, retail, Retail Formats, Retail Market, retailers, The company, The country, The firm, The List, This year, To 6th Place, Vietnam
Posted in Business | Comments Off
