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Tokopedia's success lesson Founded in 2009, Tokopedia is one of Indonesia's tech unicorns. According to CB Insights (U.S.), Tokopedia's value reached $7 billion as of June 2020, becoming the third largest unicorn in Southeast Asia, behind Grab (Singapore) and Gojek (Indonesia). Tokopedia was developed as a shopping platform where any business could easily arrange and sell its products. William Tanuwijaya, co-founder of Tokopedia, said that the company's business model is similar to Alibaba's as it combines Toko (shop) and encyclopedia. In 2018, Tokopedia launched the Mitra Tokopedia app for warungs - small family-owned businesses that usually cater to a neighborhood. Mitra Tokopedia has recorded one million downloads in the island nation that has two million warungs. Tokopedia has been successful in bringing technology into Indonesia's grocery stores. Photo by Tokopedia Mitra Tokopedia has gained popularity and is now present in more than 20 major cities, … [Read more...] about VinShop aims for success as store connection platform

Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – An online conference will take place from July 5 - 6 to connect Vietnamese and Japanese businesses in the support industries, aiming to help domestic firms seek partners and boost exports. The event, held by the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade), Vietnam’s Trade Office in Japan, and the ASEAN - Japan Centre , will also help Vietnam ese businesses in the support industries to access new trends in the market, advanced technologies, and potential partners from Japan in order to develop more professionally. It will assist enterprises in Vietnam to maintain connectivity with the Japanese side and explore export opportunities, according to Vietrade. Statistics show that over the past years, Vietnamese companies have developed in terms of both quantity and quality. They have improved production capacity and are increasingly engaged in global production chains. The number of those firms currently accounts for … [Read more...] about Virtual event to connect Vietnamese, Japanese firms in support industries

More than 100 Japanese companies in the food industry and 30 in cosmetics are looking for partners and expanding business in Vietnam. Japan Street, an online catalog site, is expected to further enhance business cooperation between Vietnamese and Japanese enterprises and further contribute to bilateral relations. Deputy Head of JETRO in Hanoi Keisuke Kobayashi at the event. Photo: Hai Yen Project Manager at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in Hanoi Yutaka Yasunaga stressed the view during a press briefing on the platform held today [June 30]. According to Yasunaga, “Japan Street” would help connect Japanese suppliers with overseas buyers, including those from Vietnam. Yasunaga said that the Covid-19 pandemic and the restriction measures adopted by countries around the world have made it difficult to set up direct meetings between buyers and suppliers. “An online platform, therefore, is considered an effective solution to avoid disruption to … [Read more...] about “Japan Street” to bolster Vietnam-Japan business cooperation: JETRO

Representatives of enterprises in EPZs-IPs participate in the conference. (Photo: SGGP) The Ho Chi Minh City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (Hepza) cooperated with the State Bank of Vietnam – HCMC Branch and some commercial banks to organize the conference to connect banks and enterprises with the theme "Accompanying enterprises - Effective financial solutions to support enterprises in EPZs-IPs in HCMC in 2022”. The conference aims to find solutions to support enterprises in EPZs and IPs to easily access financial sources with appropriate interest rates and loan terms to develop production and business activities. This activity has helped banks to better grasp the characteristics of enterprises in the field of industrial production, thereby studying shortening and simplifying the loan processes and procedures, actively approaching small and medium-sized enterprises to disburse loans according to the Government's preferential policies, especially industrial … [Read more...] about Enterprises in EPZs, IPs supported to access suitable credit sources

Son La's mangoes and longans are being sold in Big C Thang Long supermarket , Hanoi. (Photo: VNS) Hanoi (VNA) - Mango es and safe agricultural products from the northern mountainous province of Son La are being introduced at Big C Thang Long supermarket in Hanoi. The week-long event, organised by the Son La Provincial People’s Committee in collaboration with Central Retail Vietnam, is an effort to promote high-quality provincial products to the capital city’s consumers. The event has attracted 15 businesses and cooperatives, introducing both fresh fruits and vegetables such as mango, longan, avocado, guava, banana, Moc Chau pumpkin, cabbage and zucchini to processed foods. These products all meet food safety standards such as VietGAP, GolbalGAP and organic certification. With more than 400,000 hectares of fertile agricultural land and favourable climate condition, Son La is the largest fruit granary in the North with an annual output of over 450,000 tonnes. Son … [Read more...] about Son La mango and safe farm produce week launched in Hanoi

On June 30, the project started to revise and select eligible and qualified businesses to receive support packages for the second intake of 2022, running from April 1 to June 30. The USAID IPSC, with a total budget of $36 million, is currently Vietnam's largest private-sector technical assistance project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The project aims to support businesses to overcome the pandemic, improve their capacity in governance, technology, financial access, innovation, and market access, and promote a favourable business investment environment. USAID IPSC targets to support 5,000 small and growing businesses. USAID IPSC officially launched and opened registration on January 18. The applicants go through selection processes (the first in April, the second in July, and the third in November), to receive support packages. In 2022, USAID IPSC offers six different support packages for businesses based on overall project … [Read more...] about Hundreds of businesses to receive support from USAID IPSC Project

Trade promotion plays a key role for the dairy sector How has the dairy sector recovered from the pandemic? Despite the prolonged pandemic, the domestic dairy market still reached VND113.7 trillion in revenues in 2020 and VND119.3 trillion in 2021. The country produced about 1.77 billion liters of fresh milk in 2021, up 4.5 percent compared to 2020, while powdered milk volume saw positive growth of 13.1 percent year-on-year to 151,500 tonnes. Vietnamese dairy businesses have strengthened trade promotion activities and sought export markets. Currently, Vietnamese dairy products are available in 50 countries and territories. In 2021, the sector had a turnover of nearly US$300 million. Milk is a special product and export markets always put quality at the top. Therefore, Vietnam’s milk and dairy product exports to foreign markets are considered a great success. Tran Van Trung, chairman of the Vietnam Dairy Association What are the opportunities for the dairy … [Read more...] about Dairy sector milks trade agreements for greater opportunities

Aiming to seek stronger economic, trade and investment partnership between the two countries, the event drew Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh, Britain Secretary of State for International Trade Anne Marie Trevelyan, and MP Graham Stuart, U.K. Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Vietnam, and a large number of Vietnamese and Britain businesses. Addressing the event, Deputy PM Thanh highlighted important progress in the Vietnam-U.K. Strategic Partnership, as well as great chances for both sides to bolster their ties from the U.K.-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA). He underlined that both sides should optimize advantages from the deal by encouraging the promotion of the two-way trade and investment, and creating favorable conditions for enterprises of both sides to explore each other’s market and foster connection, thus striving for a trade value of over USD 10 billion by 2023. Thanh affirmed Vietnam's high political determination in realizing commitments made at the … [Read more...] about N.A. Chairman attends Vietnam-U.K. high-level forum on economy, trade

One Mount is the only enterprise in Vietnam to receive a global award from Google Cloud For the past year, One Mount and Google Cloud have worked together to build the largest technology ecosystem in Vietnam. The strategic collaboration sees One Mount leveraging Google Cloud’s open, scalable, secure-by-design, and carbon-neutral infrastructure and services across the Group’s core lines of business in retail and real estate – including products and services like VinShop, VinID, and OneHousing. With VinShop as the local market leader in online and technology-enabled grocers, One Mount has integrated solutions from Google Cloud to digitalise and modernise the entire fast-moving consumer good supply chain in Vietnam. The move has brought great value and solved key pain points for multiple stakeholders, from manufacturers and distributors to grocers and customers. VinShop owns a modern warehouse system, managed and operated by technology The integration has been … [Read more...] about One Mount honoured by Google as Best Partner in Supply and Logistics

An overview of the forum (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue attended the Vietnam-UK high-level forum on economy and trade in London on June 29 (local time), as part of the leader’s ongoing visit to the UK. Aiming to seek stronger economic, trade and investment partnership between the two countries, the event drew Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh, Britain Secretary of State for International Trade Anne Marie Trevelyan, and MP Graham Stuart, UK Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Vietnam, and a large number of Vietnamese and Britain businesses. Addressing the event, Deputy PM Thanh highlighted important progress in the Vietnam-UK Strategic Partnership , as well as great chances for both sides to bolster their ties from the UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement ( UKVFTA ). He underlined that both sides should optimise advantages from the deal by encouraging the promotion of the two-way trade and investment, and creating favourable … [Read more...] about NA Chairman attends Vietnam-UK high-level forum on economy, trade