The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced that it conducted over 70,400 safe flights transporting 10.3 million passengers in the first half of 2017, up 6 percent year-on-year.
Vinatex must innovate its technologies as soon as possible in order to increase its market share, said General Director Le Tien Truong, a shareholders’ meeting held in Hanoi on June 29.
Vietnam Airlines held its annual shareholders’ meeting in Hanoi on June 20, reporting robust growth in its business performance in 2016 and detailing plans for 2017.
The Bibica Corporation, a leading confectionery firm in Vietnam, has set targets of 1.4 trillion VND (61.5 million USD) in revenues and 86.6 billion VND (3.8 million USD) in after-tax profits in 2017.
Vietcombank (VCB) shareholders approved the bank’s plan to issue an additional 360 million shares, equivalent to 10 percent of its capital, to expand its charter capital to almost 39.6 trillion VND.
The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) planned to raise its charter capital by 4,445 billion VND (193.2 million USD) to 38,632 billion VND (1.67 billion USD) this year.
The Vietnam Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) targeted increasing before-tax profit to 8.8 trillion VND (382.6 million USD) this year, up 231 billion VND (10.04 billion USD).