FPT to be Apple’s official distributor in Vietnam

April 15, 2012 | 23:14

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The Corporation for Financing and Promoting Technology, better known was FPT, is completing final procedures to become the official distributor of the American Apple Inc in Vietnam.

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As expected, the latter will recognize the former as the first tier distributor - Apple's premium reseller, newswire Vnexpress quoted Truong Dinh Anh, FPT general director, as saying at a recent shareholders’ meeting.

After being recognized by Apple, FPT will open two first official Apple stores in the downtown of Ho Chi Minh City in the second quarter of this year.

The first one will be located at the trade center of Vincom and the second will be at an independent building on Le Loi Street.

The representative of FPT has also committed to Apple to open about 10 such stores from now to the year-end.

"As the official distributor of Apple products, we hope we can officially distribute the iPhone in Vietnam," said Anh.

The FPT general director also said that this is a turning point for the distribution operations of this company. According to Vietnamese network operators, there are currently about 800,000 activated iPhone in Vietnam.

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