Việt Nam’s retail sales down in five months If inflation was excluded, retail sales dropped 8.6 per cent, compared to 8.5 per cent seen in last year’s corresponding period.

HCM City targets 7.6 per cent industrial growth in 2020 The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade is targeting 7.6 per cent growth in industrial production and 12 per cent growth in retail sales of goods and services in 2020.

Total retail sales hit $85 billion in five months With the upward trend in total retail sales, the Ministry of Industry and Trade forecast total sales this year would grow by 10 per cent.

January-April total retail value grows at highest rate since 2015

Goods and services trading continued its upward trend in the January-April period with the retail sale value increasing at the highest rate since 2015, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VN retail market needs a development strategy

Việt Nam’s retail market needs a comprehensive development strategy to boost domestic trade, experts said at a conference yesterday in Hà Nội.

Digital economy needs supporting policies: experts

The Vietnamese Government should outline policies to promote breakthrough technologies and bolster digital economic development amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Bank Country Director for Việt Nam, Osmane Dione said yesterday.

Petrol traders urged to lift bio market share1

Wholesale petrol traders should make more efforts to raise the market share of bio-fuel E5 in the country, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Đỗ Thắng Hải.

Ministry to promote competitiveness of local firms

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will enhance trade promotion programmes and give more support to businesses to increase their competitiveness in the local market in 2018.

Retail sales post significant increase in January-September

The total retail sale value of goods and services from January to September posted the highest year-on-year increase in 2017, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Regional links key for south VN trade

Promoting regional linkage from production to distribution is essential to turn the country’s southern part into a trade hub.