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/ June 16, 2021

World Cup 2022: Vietnam qualifies for Round 3, first time in history

The Golden Dragons made the impressive fightbacks and almost wrote the late drama for the home team though it was led 3-0 most of the match. Vietnam for the first time in its history qualified for the Third and Final Round of the FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers, the unique Southeast Asian team entering this stage. Vietnam advances third and final round of the 2022 World Cup Asian Qualifiers. Photo: VNA The Golden Dragons bag 11 points after eight matches, including five wins, two draws, and one loss 2-3 to the host UAE at Zabeel Stadium in Dubai, UAE on June 16. In the match with the home team, Vietnam ran into an inspired UAE team that mastered the midfield with their range of passing, unlike the team that likes to play possession-based football with their speedy and skillful players tormenting opponents with their crisp one-twos. In the 32nd minute, the UAE drew first blood as the central midfielders combined. Abdullah Ramadan made a searching ball over the top to find Ali Salmeen who made a comfortable kick to settle the ball into the net. Eight minutes later, the home team doubled the scores from a penalty which is believed to result from goalkeeper Bui Tan Truong’s foul against Abdullah Al-Naqbi. The mistake leading to the penalty remained controversial. The third goal for the UAE came just five minutes after halftime. But the home team survived the late drama to book their place in the final round of qualifiers after Vietnam made the late fightbacks, not to mention an uncounted penalty that Vietnam should be given after Nguyen Cong Phuong was fouled by two UAE defenders in the 61st minute. Nguyen Cong Phuong makes an impressive performance in the match. Photo: Ngoc Linh/Thanh Nien Indeed, being led 3-0 never let the Vietnamese players down. Nguyen Tien Linh scored a superb goal in the 85th minute before Tran Minh Vuong gave the UAE a scare in the 93rd minute with the team’s second goal. Addressing the …

/ May 31, 2021

Local consumer trust at heart of Herbalife successes

John Agwunobi, CEO and chairman of Herbalife Nutrition Could you elaborate on the first-quarter performance of Herbalife Nutrition? We are happy to say that building off the record performance in 2020, we had the largest first-quarter net sales result in company history. Globally, there was an increased demand for our full line of quality nutrition products. In the first quarter of 2021, the energy, sports, and fitness category grew by approximately 34 per cent while the weight management product category was up 16 per cent and targeted nutrition, which includes our health and wellness product offerings, was up 21 per cent. As a result, we had a first-quarter net sales of $1.5 billion, an 18.9 per cent increase compared with the first quarter of 2020. The Asia-Pacific region had a record quarter with net sales growth of 22.4 per cent versus the prior year. This double-digit net sales growth is a reflection of our long-established strategy and growth trajectory that started in 2018. What were the key elements behind the results? With record earnings, our performance can be attributed to our business model, the entrepreneurial nature of our distributors, our sales force, and their ability to adapt their approach at a very localised level to add value to their customers. Our strong performance can also be attributed to the market’s increasing demand for our full line of quality nutrition products and the business opportunity our sales model provides. As we have seen, the direct sales model is critically important in the field of nutrition. The benefits our distributors bring to their customers in terms of daily care and direct support is invaluable. We call it the "Distributor Difference" and is what truly sets us apart. How has the Vietnam market contributed to the overall performance of Herbalife Nutrition? Herbalife Vietnam is a very important contributor to our company’s overall performance, which has now become the largest market in …

/ May 12, 2021

Viglacera targets over 43 mln USD in consolidated 2021 pre-tax profit

A tile production line of Viglacera Ha Long Company (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam’s leading ceramic and tile producer Viglacera has set a target of posting 750 billion VND in pre-tax profit at its parent company this year and 1 trillion VND (43.27 million USD) in consolidated pre-tax profit , increases of 2 percent and 19 percent, respectively, against 2020. The company also expects to earn 12 trillion VND in consolidated revenue, up 27 percent, and pay a dividend of 12 percent. It will continue to inject investment capital into two main fields - real estate and construction materials. According to deputy director general Nguyen Anh Tuan, the company continues investing in infrastructure development and supporting utilities and services at industrial parks while developing social housing, worker housing, commercial properties, and leisure real estate. In the field of construction materials, it plans to focus on manufacturing high-quality, value-added, and environmentally-friendly products and developing new product lines in keeping with market trends and customer tastes. It will divest from clay brick-manufacturing units posting poor business performance. In the opening four months of this year, Viglacera ’s consolidated profit reached 55 percent of the annual plan and was 91 percent higher than the figure in the same period last year. It recorded total consolidated profit of 841 billion VND in 2020 and 736 billion VND for the parent company, 12 percent and 23 percent, respectively, higher than the annual target. Consolidated revenue stood at 9.43 trillion VND, exceeding the annual target by 14 percent. Last month, it won the World Class Award in the 2019-2020 Global Performance Excellence Awards (GPEA), hosted by the Asia-Pacific Quality Organisation. It was the only Vietnamese company to receive the “World Class” title in the large-scale production category at the 2019-2020 GPEA, which is the only formal international …