Posts Tagged ‘ Vinatex ’

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 26/1

January 27, 2010
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 26/1

US Website: VN economy likely to show significant expansion; Market volumes hit 7-month low; Vietsovpetro to install two oil rigs in Bach Ho  Hanoi, VietnamThe Vietnamese economy is expected to show a significant expansion though it was mildly affected by the diminished export demand, said a New York-based website. An article posted on Seeking Alpha [...]

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Vietnam receives just a small slice of the garment industry pie

January 22, 2010
Vietnam receives just a small slice of the garment industry pie

Garment export turnover has been high over the last four years – however Vietnamese businesses are losing out on a large slice of the profits. Despite Vietnam having a climate and soil suitable for growing cotton, its total cotton output is still not high enough to provide for the textile industry. Meanwhile, wider raw materials for [...]

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Garment producers trying to raise localization ratio

December 15, 2009
Garment producers trying to raise localization ratio

LookAtVietnam – The locally made proportion of garments will likely reach 42-43 percent this year, higher than the previous year’s 37 percent. According to Le Tien Truong, Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex), by the end of November Vietnam had exported 8.2 billion dollars worth of garment products. It was [...]

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Big players wrestle with equitization

November 30, 2009
Big players wrestle with equitization

Many big corporations have not made any discernable move forward in the equitisation process, though they have been at the starting line for a long time. Among the big players, only the Vietnam Paper Corporation (Vinapaco) knows when it will make its initial public offering (IPO).  Vinapco Chairman Do Xuan Tru said that the corporation [...]

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Textile and wood sectors focus on local markets

November 2, 2009
Textile and wood sectors focus on local markets

LookAtVietnam – The garment and wooden furniture sectors have targeted local markets with certain success to compensate for shrinking export turnovers caused by the current global economic woe. ietNamNet Bridge – The garment and wooden furniture sectors have targeted local markets with certain success to compensate for shrinking export turnovers caused by the current global [...]

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 25/6

June 25, 2009
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 25/6

Ba Ha hydropower plant connects to national grid; US HR firm eager to expand into Vietnam; Agreement to promote Vietnam’s tourism signed; Overseas Vietnamese in Canada meet to boost bilateral trade   The consumer price index (CPI) in June increased by 0.55% and 2.68% compared to the CPI in May and December 2008.Accordingly, the CPI in [...]

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Garment companies cannot find workers, workers cannot find jobs

June 17, 2009
Garment companies cannot find workers, workers cannot find jobs

There’s a paradox in the garment industry: while garment companies cannot recruit enough workers, many workers remain unemployed. The deputy general director of Norfolk Hatexco, a firm in Ha Nam province near Hanoi, said that she is seeking to recruit some 400 workers. The company has placed advertisement pieces in local newspapers and looked for [...]

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The bitter sorrows of businessmen: birth pangs

June 2, 2009
The bitter sorrows of businessmen: birth pangs

Businessmen recount endless problems coping with Government policies and administrative procedures when they try to set up a business.  Some of the red tape can be called ‘harassment’. Vinatex Mart is awaiting for license“I do not have words to describe the tiredness and red tape I have experienced while seeking to get a license for [...]

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Workers pay big money to end up beggars in Russia

May 29, 2009
Workers pay big money to end up beggars in Russia

The repatriated workers on Wednesday describe their harrowing ordeal in Russia What Do Van Phi remembers about Russia is being without a blanket when the temperature was 15 degrees Celsius below zero, having nothing but instant noodles for dinner and sometimes even having to beg for food. The native of Bac Giang in the north [...]

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Garment companies sharing orders to survive together

March 31, 2009
Garment companies sharing orders to survive together

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of small and medium garment and footwear producers now have to ‘live from hand to mouth’ as they seriously lack orders. Meanwhile, big enterprises now have to speed up the production with rapid-fire orders. It was the working hour but the large workshop of the Lien Phat Footwear Company in [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...