The Corporation for Financing and Promoting
Technology, better known was FPT, is completing final procedures to become the
official distributor of the American Apple Inc in Vietnam.
As
expected, the latter will recognize the former as the first tier distributor -
Apple's premium reseller, newswire Vnexpress quoted Truong Dinh Anh, FPT
general director, as saying at a recent shareholders’ meeting.
After
being recognized by Apple, FPT will open two first official Apple stores in the
downtown of Ho Chi Minh City in the second quarter of this year.
The
first one will be located at the trade center of Vincom and the second will be
at an independent building on Le Loi Street.
The
representative of FPT has also committed to Apple to open about 10 such stores
from now to the year-end.
"As
the official distributor of Apple products, we hope we can officially
distribute the iPhone in Vietnam," said Anh.
The FPT
general director also said that this is a turning point for the distribution
operations of this company. According to Vietnamese network operators, there
are currently about 800,000 activated iPhone in Vietnam.
Pretax
profits up
An FPT
leader has said that the company still posted high growth in the difficult
economic context, of which, FPT Telecom and FPT Online reposted the best
business performance in Q1/2012.
In
particular, according to the preliminary calculation, in Q1/2012, the pretax
profits of FPT Telecom and FPT Online surged 31 percent and 30 percent year on
year respectively.
Although
FPT Trading saw a year-on-year fall of 10 percent in revenue due to a 20-25
percent year-on-year decrease in purchasing power, its profit still grew 3
percent year on year.
In
addition, profits of FPT IS and FPT University still grew 18 percent and 7
percent year on year.
Therefore,
the group’s profit growth in Q1/2012 was about 12 percent if excluding fiscal
statements of affiliates in sectors of securities, finance and fund management.
In
2012, FPT targets to earn 31.3 trillion dong in revenue and 3 trillion dong
pretax profit.
The
group will adjust its business plan if there are more optimistic signals in Q2
and Q3 of this year, the company’s leader said.
Tuoi
Tre
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