President Triet expressed his pleasure at the achievements that ACB made during 2009 in the context of financial crisis.
Despite difficulties, the bank’s pre-tax profit exceeded 2.8 trillion VND, 118 billion higher than the set target last year.
ACB’s vision to 2015 is to become Vietnam’s leading financial group and a bank of regional and international scale.
The same day, President Triet paid a Tet visit to Sai Gon JewelryHolding Company (SJC), during which he said he hoped the company willbecome a strong group and a major gold manipulator and dealer with fastand sustainable growth.
Last year, SJC posted a pre-tax profit of 359 billion VND and contributed 100 billion VND to the State budget.
The company was among top 500 Vietnam’s largest enterprises in 2009./.