Kinh Luan
General Director Yasuo Nishitohge said at a scholarship awarding ceremony in HCMC on Thursday that its first shopping mall in Vietnam would be the Aeon Tan Phu Celadon in Tan Phu District.
“Aeon Tan Phu Celadon will have total floor space of 80,000 square meters, with half being the commercial area comprising of the shopping mall and a section for lease with some 300 stands,” he said. The remaining half will be sparking space able to accommodate 1,000 cars and 2,800 motorcycles, he said.
After this first mall, the company will open its Aeon-Binh Duong Canary mall next October, and Aeon Mall Long Bien in Hanoi in 2015.
“We plan to open 20 shopping malls in Vietnam between now and 2020,” Nishitohge said.
Regarding the first shopping mall, Aeon Vietnam has poured some US$100 million into the project. This shopping center is part of the 82-hectare complex Celadon City, which will have 8,000 apartments by the turn of the decade.
Each Aeon shopping mall will recruit some 2,000 people. To do so, Aeon Vietnam has over the past three years awarded scholarships to Vietnamese students learning the Japanese language, especially those at the HCMC Pedagogy University and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Nishitohge said that in this year’s academic year, his company offered 60 scholarships worth VND6 million each for students of the two universities. Until now, nearly 200 students have benefited from the company’s scholarship fund.
The CEO furthered that Aeon has maintained an international scholarship fund since 2006 by deducting 1% of the group’s gross profits coupled with donations from other philanthropists.
In another scholarship award event last year, Nishitohge said Aeon Group would cooperate with Vietnamese producers and suppliers to bring domestic products to its global retail network. He said then that Aeon had held a meeting for suppliers in the city as a first move to secure local supply. The enterprise would pay attention to export products Vietnam has advantages such as apparel, footwear and plastic.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
