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Big M&A deals to be made in 2016
VietNamNet Bridge - Retail is leading the merger and acquisition (M&A) market in the number of M&A deals and value in 2016.
Vietnamese retail market: early bird will catch the worm
VietNamNet Bridge - Gone is the time when big fish swallow smaller fish. It is now the time when faster fish will eat slower ones, according to Nielsen.
Internet retail set to bolster marketplace
VietNamNet Bridge – As shopping websites keep expanding, with new
shops popping up, competition is getting more exciting, but there is
still plenty of room for growth in online retail in Vietnam.
Retail, services sales hit US$110 bln
The country's total retail sales and services revenue reached US$110 billion, rising 9.8% over the same period last year, or 9.1%, if inflation is excluded.
Japanese firms pick Vietnam for expansion, relocation projects
VietNamNet Bridge – Most Japanese companies operating in China and
Thailand would pick Vietnam if they expand or relocate investments over
considerations of labor costs and investment climate, heard a conference
in HCMC last Friday.
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 1/4
Successful real estate transactions sees strong surge in Q1, Quang Binh seeks more investors, BIDV offered US$500 million on-lending grid development project, Retail, service sectors post encouraging growth in Q1
Firms struggle to stay in business
VietNamNet Bridge – The number of Vietnamese companies that have
either been dissolved or have suspended operations in the first 10
months of 2014 increased by 9.3 per cent year-on-year to 54,333.
Smartphones - the future of the retail industry
VietNamNet Bridge – Smartphones, which are helping to connect
retailers and consumers, play a very important role in the future
development of the retail industry.
Opportunities of second M&A wave
VietNamNet Bridge – The second wave of mergers and acquisitions, forecast for the 2014-2018 period, is expected to be on a
larger scale compared to the previous one with total value of successful
transactions possibly reaching 20 billion USD.
Vietnamese retailers’ circular firing squad
VietNamNet Bridge – While foreign retailers have been making big
leaps to expand their businesses in Vietnam, domestic retailers have
been busy playing tricks on each other to scramble for others’ clients.
Time for supermarket chains
VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of enterprises in the fields of real
estate, finance & banking, consumer goods have suddenly jumped into
the retail market.
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 23/10
VN retail boosted by foreign support; Hi-tech urban complex to bridge border; Auto giants choose to steer clear of national motor show; Mobile users resent huge 3G fee hike
Unfamiliar players to join the retail playing field
VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese retail market is so attractive
that real estate developers and bankers have also decided to join the
market.
Retail woes pose investor headache
VietNamNet Bridge – Struggling retailers forced to close down or cede
their business to others in Ha Noi shopping centres have caused
difficulties for the investors.
Report says oligopoly exists in 6 business fields
The Competition Administration Department (CAD), an arm
of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), which conducted a survey on 10
business fields, has found out that oligopoly exists in six of them.
U.S. shoppers spend billions over Thanksgiving weekend
A record 247 million U.S. shoppers visited stores and websites over Thanksgiving weekend, up from 226 million last year, according to an industry survey released on Sunday.
