Mr Dang Van Thanh

Dang Van Thanh’s family and Thanh Thanh Cong Group

In late 1980s, Dang Van Thanh and his wife Huynh Bich Ngoc began their business with a workshop making alcohol, CO2 and molasses to earn their living. While Ngoc has been following this business, Thanh is more famous as a banker, the founder of Sacombank.

With strong financial capability, Thanh Thanh Cong has invested in many other sugar companies. It is now a group of 25 subsidiaries operating in five major business fields, from sugar refinery, real estate, tourism, energy, education and farm produce.

TTC Tourist has approved a plan to increase its capital from VND130 billion to VND780 billion.

Thanh Thanh Cong is known in the sugar industry which is believed to hold 30-40 percent of the market share. The group management has been transferred to the next generation – Dang Huynh Uc My, the daughter of Thanh and Ngoc.

Meanwhile, their son, Dang Hong Anh, was once chair of Sacomreal, a real estate developer.

Vuu Khai Thanh and footwear empire

Biti’s was established by the Chinese-origin family of Vuu Khai Thanh in early 1980s. The company was set up on the basis of two footwear production workshops Binh Tien and Van Thanh located in district 6, HCMC which employed about 20 workers and only made simple rubber slippers.

In 1986, the two workshops merged to form Binh Tien Rubber Cooperative which specialized in making high-quality shoes for domestic consumption and export to eastern and western Europe. ‘Biti’s’ brand was born.

Biti’s became famous, especially in 1990s, when it successfully conquered China’s southwestern market thanks to high-quality products at reasonable prices.

As a Chinese, Thanh well understood the characters and taste of Chinese consumers. As they like walking, they would prefer durable products with reasonable prices. Biti’s brand was then present all over Yunnan, Chongqing, Guangxi, Guangdong, Beijing and Shanghai.

After a quiet period, Biti’s has returnef with Biti’s Hunter campaign. Vuu Le Quyen, the daughter of Vuu Khai Thanh, is believed to be behind the big changes made with Biti’s.

Ly Ngoc Minh and Minh Long porcelain brand

Minh Long porcelain products are well known not only in Vietnam, but in many other countries as well. 

Minh was born in Binh Duong province, called the porcelain homeland. He first attended an exhibition of porcelain products when he was 12 years old.

Minh took many jobs to earn his living, from making toothpaste, soybean jam, and brewing wine and growing farm produce, but he never gave up the dream of making porcelain products.

His four children all take part in the management of Minh Long 1 Company.

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