HCMC products showcased at Tay Ninh fair

A fair to promote products made by HCM City-based businesses opened on September 30 at the Tay Ninh Sport Training and Competition Center — VNS Photo

A fair to promote products made by HCM City-based businesses opened on September 30 at the Tay Ninh Sport Training and Competition Center.

The week-long fair features 150 booths of more than 100 businesses. Products include consumer goods, processed food, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, farm produce, fertilisers and animal feed, in addition to machinery and construction materials.

The municipal People's Committee paid for 50 per cent of booth rentals and 100 per cent of costs for booth decoration, communication and seminars.

Pham Thiet Hoa, director of the Investment and Trade Promotion Centre of HCM City (ITPC), said international integration would offer opportunities for businesses to boost exports. On the other hand, foreign firms, particularly those from Asia, have increasingly penetrated the domestic market.

In addition to boosting exports, Vietnamese should concentrate more on the domestic market with a population of more than 90 million, he said.

ITPC has organised a series of fairs to enable HCM City-based businesses to promote their brands and products and seek distributors in other provinces and cities, with the first held in Tay Ninh Province.

Tay Ninh is home to 109 traditional markets, but according to ITPC, the linkages between HCM City producers and small traders are not stable.

On the sidelines of the fair, ITPC in collaboration with the Tay Ninh Department of Industry and Trade and Market Management Board will hold a meeting to connect HCM City producers with traders and distributors in the province./.

Source: VNS