With just over two weeks to the 2025 Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival, made-in-Vietnam products are having a dominant presence at supermarkets and convenience stores across the country, showcasing the growing strength of such brands as Kinh Do, Huu Nghi, Bibica, Cau Tre, and Vissan.
Customer turnout remained low on "Black Friday" – the most anticipated shopping day of the year, despite businesses actively launching promotions and offering discounts ranging from 50% to 80%.
The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade launched a national promotion month - Vietnam Grand Sale 2022 - in Hanoi on November 15.
“Hanoi Sales Promotion” 2022 opened on July 8 in Times City, Hoang Mai ward, Hanoi, aiming to stimulate consumer demand and tourism, ease difficulties, promote production and business, improve enterprise competitiveness, and develop business modes.
As the COVID-19 situation in the country has been largely brought under control, the central city of Da Nang has taken this as an appropriate time to launch tourism promotion programmes so as to create a boost for the city’s economy.
The Management Board of the My Son Sanctuary World Cultural Heritage Site is focusing on increasing service quality and offering discounts of 30-50 percent on tickets to attract more visitors to central Quang Nam province as COVID-19 is brought under control in Vietnam.
The northwestern province of Lao Cai organised a summer tourism promotion programme from May 22-24 with a view to luring holidaymakers to the locality in general and the resort township of Sa Pa in particular.
Indonesia will cut prices of airline tickets by 40 to 50 percent in a move to encourage tourism development amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.
Car sales in November failed to meet expectations even though the year-end shopping season has started and despite various discounts of up to hundreds of millions of dong.
The Vietnam International Jewellery Fair opened in Ho Chi Minh City on November 8, attracting more than 200 domestic and foreign exhibitors who offer discounts of up to 30 percent.
Although many carmakers in Vietnam have applied discounts and promotions, car sales in the first eight months of the year dipped 6 percent year-on-year to 177,000 units, according to the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA).
HCM City’s annual sales promotion month from September until the end of the year is expected to boost retail sales and attract a large number of foreign visitors.
The Vietnam International Jewelry Fair, the 25th of its kind, opened in Ho Chi Minh City on November 9 with nearly 200 stalls, up 10 percent from 2015.
The Hanoi Promotion Month was launched in Hanoi on November 4 with the participation of nearly 500 enterprises, offering wide-scale discounts at 1,000 sale locations.
Vietnam Airlines launched a promotional programme for passengers travelling to Southeast Asian destinations, using its VNA Holidays – a package including air ticket and hotel accommodation.
Passengers of Vietnamese airlines now have the chance to travel at lower costs as the carriers have decided to slash airfares due to falling fuel costs.
Le Minh Tuyen of HCM City, who was choosing a Tet gift hamper, said, "products for this Tet are abundant, diversified and have more eye-catching packaging compared to previous years."
