Issue 58

The Export and Outwards Investment Promotion Working Group under the Public-Private Collaboration Committee has organised several projects to help Thai entrepreneurs explore business opportunities in other countries, Commerce Ministry Apiradi Tantraporn announced on August 26.

“The team implements a ‘Friends Guide Friends’ strategy by which large Thai companies help SMEs to set up business in neighboring countries,” Tantraporn added.

In August, BJC, one of Thailand’s top commercial conglomerates, and the Ministry of Commerce hosted an activity to provide in-depth information about Vietnam’s market to 51 promising SMEs, and organised business matching between Thai entrepreneurs and Vietnamese distributors.

The working group is also considering setting up an AEC Town in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh and the Vietnam-Thai Commercial Centre in Ho Chi Minh City as distribution centres for Thai brands in those countries.

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