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Vietnam’s banana exports could potentially surpass the US$1 billion threshold in the near future due to increased investment, value-chain-driven production, and expanded export markets, a number of experts and industry insiders have highlighted. They shared…
In the first three quarters of 2025, Vietnam set a new export record, shipping out fruits and vegetables worth US$4.06 billion to China, marking a 19% increase in comparison to the previous year. This growth was largely driven by the export of durian and…
Banana Sisters, a South Korean legwear brand, has broadened its global presence by launching its second international flagship store in the SM Mall of Asia. This move forms part of the company’s broader expansion plan in Southeast Asia. The new retail outlet…
Edgewell Personal Care Australia, the firm behind the well-known Banana Boat and Hawaiian Tropic sunscreens, is embroiled in a legal dispute with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The ACCC claims that the company misled consumers by…
Vietnam has surpassed the Philippines to become the largest banana supplier to China with a 40.7% market share in the first eight months. China increased its imports from Vietnam by 19.6%, according to data from its customs department, while cutting its…
The price of kluay hom thong banana or “golden bananas” in Thailand has doubled to 30 baht (US$0.89) amid growing demand. Somchai Nunual, leader of the golden banana and fruit safety group in Bang Kaew district in Thailand’s Phatthalung province, said the…
Japanese retailer AEON has replaced Philippine and Taiwanese bananas with Vietnamese imports at its Hong Kong outlets. AEON started selling Vietnamese bananas at its 91 outlets in Hong Kong last year because they are of high quality and grown using a process…
The export of bananas, durians, and jackfruit from Vietnam to China and Laos surged in the year’s first four months. The export value of vegetables and fruits reached $1.39 billion, up 19.4% over the same period last year, according to the Ministry of…
Banana exports to China increased by 10 percent in the first five months though total vegetable and fruit exports to that country were down 28 percent. Vietnam was China’s largest supplier of bananas at 742,000 tons or 43 percent of its total imports,…
A Vietnamese agriculture company, Hoang Anh Gia Lai Agriculture Jsc, is set to invest in another 5,000 hectares of land in Cambodia to grow bananas for export to China. It will invest VND976 billion ($42 million) in the project, the company said in a recent…
Philippines stands to gain in new export markets The Philippines stands to profit from agriculture products with its entry into new export markets in an attempt to diversify their economy. In particular, virgin coconut oil is in demand in South Africa, where…
Bangkok-based IT chain store Com7, under the Banana brand, has taken over 44 BKK outlets from Bangkok Telecom 999. The TB184 million (US$5.1 million) deal is a bid by Com7 to drive its expansion into the mid- and entry-level segments. “This is our first…
A Bangkok IT store in a shopping mall in Bangkok. The stores will complete their transfer to Banana in the first quarter of 2017. Com7, the Bangkok-based IT chain store under the Banana brand, has taken over 44 BKK shops from Bangkok Telecom 999 for 184…
