19-11-2014 In October, total retails of goods and services of HCMC was 55,879 billion VND, increased 3.2% and 10.6% respectively compared to last month and the same period last year. In the first 10 months, total retails of goods and services was 530,479 billion VND, increased 12% compared to the same period of 2013. Excluding price fluctuation, goods and services volume went up by 17.1%. In commerce sector, some goods had high growth rate are transpotation means (24.9%); petrolium (12.5%); and others (20.8%). In addtition, hotels and restaurants sector reached 56,069 billion VND; services revenue was 34,428 billion (11.4% increase) and toursim reached 15,696 billion (went up by 13.3%).  

1.      Project Overview The cross-regional “Brand Asia 2014” project is led by Nikkei BP Consulting aiming to evaluate among different region, major brands’ overall strengths, measure image trends, analyze customers’ perceptions and other factors that has influence on brands’ performances. It was conducted in 27 large cities of 12 Asia countries from December 2013 to January 2014 by 3 data collection methods: Internet survey, Street catch and Telephone. Within 100 researched brands, 60 global brands are commonly selected for 12 countries and divided into 10 industries: 1)IT/Electronic (IT/Electronic), 2) Food/Drink, 3) Internet-related, 4) Sporting good (Sporting), 5) Automaker, 6) fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), 7) Restaurant, 8) Finance, 9) Clothing/Fashion items (Clothing) and 10)

06-07-2015 The period from 2011 to 2014 witnessed a fluctuation in the unemployment rate of labour force in working age in urban area in the whole country. In 2012, the rate decreased by 11% compared to that of 2011 (3.6%), and then rose back to 3.59% in 2013. Fortunately, in 2014 the figure for whole country fell by 5.5% compared to that of 2013, which indicates a positive change. Among 6 regions listed, Red River Delta had remarkably high unemployment rate of labour force in working age in urban country, ranking number 1 in 2013 and 2014. The rate for North Central and Central coastal areas, though always higher than that of

03-11-2015 Among 1,350 websites offering e-commerce service in the survey, 765 websites (accounting for 57%) had the operation models of online stores (with add-to-card service); the rest (accounting for 43%) had the operation models for marketing purposes (e.g. introduce products and services that the company provide, not for online trading) Regarding source of investment capital, more than 97% of the capital came from firm’s internal equity, and only 0.5% came from foreign investor. The result showed a shift in online trading volume and in diversity of products and services. Among those, clothing, cosmetic and health care product was best selling (28%), next is electrical home appliances (25%). Hi-tech products like

28-11-2014 Export value in the first 9 months of 2014 of EU was about $20.2 billion, 3 times higher than import value (~$6.6 billion). In there, German had the highest value including $3.76 billion of export and $1.96 billion of import. In additon, export value in the same period of ASEAN reached $13.9 billion, 1.22 times lower then import value which was $17 billion. In which, Malaysia was in the first place of export-import value, respectively $2.9 billion and $3.03 billion. Meanwhile, export value of America reached $20.85 billion, higher than EU’s. Source: General Statistics Office Data consolidated by B&Company Vietnam The information and statements contained herein, including any expression of opinion,

B&Company’s pleased to be consultant and bridge for the success of cooperation between Vietnamese and Japanese in an establishment of Automatic Parking PNT enterprise. The word“PNT” is a combined abbreviation of 3 first characters of the 3 parties’ name in the joint venture including Petrolimex Construction JSC No.1, Nissei Build Asia Pte. Ltd and Tamada Industries, Inc. The signing ceremony happened on Dec 20 2014 at PCC-1 conventional center with witnesses of Mr. Trinh Tran – Representative of Board director – President of Petrolimex Corp and other departmental leaders of Petrolimex and PCC-1. Representatives of 3 parties in PNT Autxo Parking JSC Join Venture   Apart from above participants, B&Company

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From October 2014, B&Company has become an official member of ESOMAR – The prestige global association for market research with more than 65 years of experience.   Founded in 1948, ESOMAR’s has been to encourage, advance and promote global market researches worldwide. Until now, ESOMAR’s community has reached the numbers of 4,800 individuals and 300 corporate members representing 20,000 industry professionals within over 130 countries.   Accession to ESOMAR is an important milestone in B&Company’s development, recognizing our continuous efforts in recent years as well as strong service commitments in future. More information about the membership should be found in following link: http://www.esomar.org/membership/members-search.php?keywords=B%26Company&type=members&x=0&y=0

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