The Vietnamese Product Exhibition Week opened at AEON shopping mall in Ho Chi Minh City on September 27 to introduce more Vietnamese goods to AEON supermarket chain.
HCMCity (VNA)🥂 – The Vietnamese Product Exhibition Week opened atAEON shopping mall in Ho Chi Minh City on September 27 to introduce moreVietnamese goods to AEON supermarket chain.
Theannual event is co-organised by the Investment and Trade Promotion Centre of Ho ChiMinh City (ITPC) and the AEON Vietnam Co. Ltd. ITPC Deputy Director Tran Phu Lu cited statistics from the General Department of Customs as saying that two-way tradebetween Vietnam and Japan hit 31.8 billion USD in the first eight months of 2022, up14% year on year. Of which, Vietnam’s exports to Japan reached 15.8 billion USD, up19% year-on-year. This is the fourth year that ITPC has coordinatedefforts to hold the event. The organising board selected 36 enterprises toexhibit 374 processed foods and agricultural products, including rice, fruits andvegetables, and organic items. A business matching event will also beheld, with the participation of more than 200 Vietnamese businesses. Currently,about 2,000 Vietnamese firms are supplying goods to AEON markets, of them over 100 enterprises havebeen connected with AEON via the similar events in recent years./.
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At the event (Photo: VNA) 
