AFTEA and FLA gathering over 200 firms and more than 250 brands, respectively, are highlights of the Singapore International Agri-Food Week 2022. They offer opportunities for participating businesses to popularise their products, particularly environmentally friendly ones, and to seek partnerships.

Cao Xuan Thang, representative of the Vietnam Trade Office, introduces Vietnamese products at the fair.

The Vietnam Trade Office in Singapore has supported more than 20 businesses to promote their corporate trademarks and display nearly 50 processed food brands at the fairs. Many other companies from Vietnam like Global Mind, Napoli Coffee, and Sen Daiviet have also brought their goods to the events.

After the opening ceremony of FLA2022, Alvin Tan, Singaporean Minister of State at the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY), visited stalls run by Vietnamese exhibitors and expressed his impression and appreciation of new products Vietnam brought to the expo.

Cao Xuan Thang, representative of the trade office, said it will help bring Singapore business delegations to Vietnam attending local fairs, exhibitions and forming trade connection with Vietnamese enterprises to promote the export of Vietnamese goods to Singapore.

The agency will also continue to support Vietnamese firms to display, introduce goods, and connect with partners in Singapore, he added.

Conference seeks to better cross-border e-commerce skill for export firms

Hanoi will continue to coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Vietnam E-commerce and Digital Economy Agency (iDEA), Amazon Global Selling Vietnam, and relevant units to support and train businesses in skills on cross-border e-commerce, according to Vice Director of Hanoi Center for Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion (HPA) Nguyen Thi Mai Anh.

Vietnam facilitates foreign firms’ investment activities: PM

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a hybrid meeting with foreign-invested enterprises and business associations on September 17, during which he pledged to create favourable conditions for FDI enterprises to invest successfully and sustainably in Vietnam.

Major firms spend big on pig farming

Many big companies have been investing trillions of dong (VND1 trillion= $41.67 million) in raising pigs, with the Vietnamese pork market estimated at $15 billion.

Record rise seen in number of new, resuming firms in 8 months

Record rise was seen in the number of newly-established firms and those returning to the market in the first eight months of this year thanks to a surge in August’s figures, according to the Business Registration Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Vietnamese agricultural products seek a firm position in the EU market

Agricultural products are still considered as one of the potential commodity groups for export to the EU market, in the context that world demand gradually recovers after the pandemic.

Source: VNA