Vietnam Fair underway in AEON supermarkets in Japan
Tokyo (VNA) – The Vietnam Fair is underway in 40 AEON
supermarkets across Japan from September 11-13.
On display are apparel, processed
food, consumer goods, interior decorations, handicrafts and hi-tech devices.
Co-organised by the Vietnamese
Embassy’s Vietnam Trade Office in Japan and AEON Group, the event is expected
to popularise Vietnamese goods to Japanese consumers and expand trade ties with
Japanese partners and AEON’s importers in particular.
It is also part of a
project on promoting Vietnamese firms’ participation in foreign distribution
system till 2020, and meant to deliver on commitments under the memorandum of
understanding signed between the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade and
AEON Group, towards raising Vietnam’s exports to AEON to 500 million USD this
year and 1 billion USD by 2025.
Speaking at the event, Vietnamese
Ambassador to Japan Vu Hong Nam thanked AEON Group for successfully holding editions
of the event since 2016, importing and distributing Vietnamese lychees.
He added that the Vietnamese Embassy will
continue working closely with the two countries’ authorities to complete procedures
to bring Vietnamese longans to Japan and bring Japanese tangerines to
Vietnam./.