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Startup in Ho Chi Minh City Will Be as Convenient as in Singapore

A series of specific commitments has been confirmed by HCMC’s Party Secretary Nguyen Thien Nhan to help startup environment in HCMC becoming as favorable as in Singapore.

The city is committed to preparing an industrial park reserved for newly startup and innovative businesses. Secondly, the procedure for setting up new business in HCMC will be as good as in Singapore. Third, in addition to private investment, the city will also, on a case-by-case basis, pilot public-private partnerships in support of innovative entrepreneurship.
In addition to the above 3 commitments, according to Mr Nguyen Thien Nhan, HCMC will have a general information page to reflect the creative start-up activities in the area. At the same time, he decided to meet face-to-face with the startup community twice a year to listen to their mind and remove difficulties in time.
In general, in the past year, HCMC has had very specific and significant results in comparison with other provinces in terms of start-up activities. According to director of the Department of Science and Technology of HCMC, this agency has set up 5 spaces to support innovative start-ups and links with 24 business incubators with a total floor area of over 22,000 square meters. Of which, 50% capital is from socialization.
In addition, The SpeedUp 2017 program has provided financial support tools from the budget for innovative startup projects through enterprise incubators. In the past 8 months, this program has received and processed 112 innovative startup project applications. The number of selected projects was 14/112 (12.5%), which is quite high compared to the current selection rate of many investment funds (VIISA reaches 5%, VSVA reaches 8%).
This year, the HCMC Department of Science and Technology has also set up 4 Steering Committee for Innovative Ecosystems for 4 key areas of the city, including mechanics, food processing, plastic – rubber – chemistry and information technology.
With a network of 145 consultants and innovative start-up advisors from many different disciplines, up to now, 938 start-up projects have been connected to help develop business ideas. There are 3,200 individuals and start-up groups connected to investors, experts and consultancy organizations. Moreover, over 300 startup products are promoted to the community.
However, a general assessment from the Department of Science and Technology of the City, most startups in Vietnam are newly invested at the seed stage with small scale and the possibility of breakthrough growth is not high. This is a matter of concern.

Toyoda Gosei Invests in Auto Parts Factory in Tien Hai Industrial Park



Toyoda Gosei Group, the world’s leading manufacturer of auto parts, supplying for Toyota (Japan) has decided to choose Tien Hai Industrial Park, Viglacera as the location to set up factory in Vietnam.

Viglacera Real Estate Trading Company and Toyoda Gosei Group of Japan have just signed a land lease contract with an area of 11.3 hectares in Tien Hai Industrial Park, Thai Binh province, which is invested by Viglacera Corporation.
Toyoda Gosei is the world’s leading auto parts manufacturer, supplying for Toyota, with a network of about 100 factories and offices in 18 countries and regions.
The new plant is expected to be built in early 2018 and put into production in 2019 with a total investment of 24.6 million USD, specializing in the production of airbag components and airbags for safe protection for drivers and passengers in cars, leather and polyurethane coated car steering wheels.
Toyoda Gosei’s products will be exported to Japan, USA, Europe and some other regions.
Toyoda Gosei has also invested in Hai Phong, with 3 large-scale workshops, and also one of the largest investment companies in Nomura Industrial Park in Hai Phong.
Tien Hai Viglacera Industrial Park has the advantage of geographical position when locating near the coastal highway connecting the 6 northern coastal provinces (Quang Ninh – Hai Phong – Thai Binh – Nam Dinh – Ninh Binh – Thanh Hoa), which has just started construction in May 2017. In which, the construction of the expressway locating in Thai Binh province will be completed by the end of 2018, shortening the distance and travel time from the industrial zone to Hai Phong port (40km) – 60 minutes).
In addition, enterprises in Tien Hai Industrial Park are also enjoying attractive incentives for enterprises in the economic zone such as 10% corporate income tax rate for 15 years, tax exemption for the first 4 years and reduction of 50% for the next 9 years; land rental exemptions from 11 to 19 years; import tax incentives; personal income tax incentives…
Therefore, only after less than one month since the decision to establish Thai Binh Economic Zone was issued, Tien Hai Viglacera Industrial Park has received the attention for information and investment decision from many investors coming from the countries like Japan, Korea, Hongkong, Taiwan…
In order to meet the increasing demand for land leasing to build factory in Tien Hai Industrial Park, Viglacera is actively promoting land clearance to ensure a large area of clean land, complete construction of infrastructure to create the most favorable conditions for businesses operating here.

Mavin Pledged to Invest 80 Million USD in Nghe An

Mavin Group (Australia) has operated in Vietnam for a long time and now they do not hide their ambition to expand investment and set up business in Vietnam.

In February 2017, Mavin Group inaugurated an animal feed production factory in Nghe An. This plant has a total investment of 15 million USD, which is built on an area of 3.6 ha and has a capacity of 300,000 tons per year.
Mavin Group has invested in Vietnam for more than 12 years and now has production facilities in 7 provinces and branches, warehouses in 19 different provinces in the country. However, up to date, Nghe An is the only province that Mavin plans to invest in 4 separate projects with a total investment of 80 million USD.
In addition to the inaugural animal feed factory, Mavin Group plans to deploy 3 more projects in Nghe An.
In April 2017, Mavin Group was granted a license to invest in a 18 million USD hi-tech pig farm, built on an area of ​​100 hectares. Subsequently, the Mavin Group plans to invest in a Veterinary Research Center. At the same time, conducting a feasibility study to invest in a food processing plant that may be launched by 2018. The project has a total investment of 25 million USD, built on an area of ​​5 hectares, capacity of 200,000 tons/year. This factory will produce products made from meat, sausage, ham and other traditional meats… serving the domestic market and exporting to Laos and Cambodia.
According to the Chairman of the group, Mavin Group before making investment decision always consider 6 issues that are: human resources; market; geographic factors; political issues (attention, government support, security…); incentive policy and transparency.
In addition, representatives of the Mavin Group expressed their satisfaction when investing in Nghe An. Moreover, they also suggested that investors should choose to invest in Nghe An not only because of favorable geographic location, synchronous facilities, great source of human resources but also highly supported from province leaders with great investment incentives.
According to the representative of Vietnam – Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) in the Central and South regions, recently many local and foreign investors have come to Nghe An seeking investment opportunities.
Previously, in September 2015, VSIP Nghe An was officially started construction with a total area of 750 hectares. After more than a year of land handover, up to now, VSIP Nghe An has now leveled and built complete infrastructure for about 100 hectares of industrial land area in phase 1A. The wastewater treatment system, clean water supply, power supply, fire prevention and protection have been completed and ready to serve investors in production.
More than 90 companies from many countries and territories have come to find out information and investment opportunities at VSIP Nghe An and 10 companies have signed investment commitments with total investment capital of over 400 billion VND. By the beginning of September 2017, some companies have received land handover and started plant construction. In which, the first factory was officially put into operation. It is expected that by the fourth quarter of 2017, two more companies will come into operation, attracting about 1,000 workers.
It is known that VSIP Nghe An is the 7th project that VSIP deployed in Vietnam. Previously, in addition to 2 VSIP projects in Binh Duong, there are projects in Bac Ninh, Hai Phong, Quang Ngai and Hai Duong. Currently, VSIP’s projects attract a total of 720 investors from 30 countries and territories with total domestic and foreign investment of 9.2 billion USD, creating jobs for about 180,000 workers.