24-07-2013 11:08
Nojima, one of Japan’s leading electronics retailers, has entered the local electronics market after acquiring last week a 10% stake in Tran Anh Digital World Co., a deal that further proves the significance of the local electronics retail market.
22-07-2013 10:50
The presence of McDonald’s, the world largest food service retailer, could force other key players in Vietnam’s fast-food market to restructure.
08-07-2013 16:08
While many local banks are charging cardholders ATM cash withdrawals, ANZ Vietnam offers free withdrawal service for its Visa debit cards. This will benefit both customers and the bank in long term, Duong Duc Hung, head of retail banking at ANZ Vietnam, tells VIR’s Ngoc Linh.
01-07-2013 14:07
Domestic steel and cement makers are calling for fair treatment in retail power pricing scheme.
01-07-2013 13:35
South Korean retailer Lotte Mart has pushed back the date of its first Hanoi-based supermarket to 2014’s first quarter.
25-06-2013 14:00
Retailer Vietnam’s Saigon Co.op marked Vietnamese Family Day and International Co-operative Day with attractive promotion programmes.
24-06-2013 14:14
The jury is out on whether new regulations will get the retail market moving.
15-06-2013 08:43
The retail price of petrol in Vietnam is to slightly go up a maximum of 426 dongs ($1 = VND20,800) a liter as of 8:00pm today, according to a decision approved by the Ministry of Finance.
13-06-2013 11:01
Retail investment banking has yet to find a home in Vietnam. But with other investment channels like real estate, gold and stock markets are ailing, ANZ has a chance to introduce more investment products into the country. Sanjoy Sen, managing director of ANZ’s Retail Banking Asia Pacific, puts VIR’s Ngoc Linh in the picture.
03-06-2013 08:13
Domestic petroleum wholesalers have lobbied the Finance Ministry to approve an increase in retail prices, claiming they have taken losses despite the recent falls in the world fuel price.
29-05-2013 18:00
A consortium led by an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing, will invest $200 million in Vingroup’s retail property business, a subsidiary of Vingroup- Vietnam’s largest private-sector real estate operator.
29-05-2013 10:55
Wal-Mart was hit with US$110 million in US federal and state fines Tuesday after pleading guilty to criminal charges of mishandling hazardous waste and pesticides at its retail stores.
28-05-2013 09:14
Singaporean retailer NTUC FairPrice and Vietnam’s Saigon Co.op have got the thumbs up to build two supermarket chains, Co.opXtra and Co.opXtraPlus. Dinh Thi My Loan, general secretary of Association of Vietnam Retailers (AVR), tell VIR what the likely impact will be on the retail and distribution market.
27-05-2013 16:41
Dark clouds of uncertainty still linger over the opening of Vietnam’s retail and distribution markets to foreign firms.
27-05-2013 10:07
The arrival of Japan’s leading retail developer, Aeon, with a $200 million retail centre in Long Bien district will be a fresh example of the emergence of eastern Hanoi across the Red River.