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SPRING Production celebrates employee no. 200

SPRING Production celebrates employee no. 200

In April, SPRING Production celebrated its 10-year anniversary in Vietnam, and now the Danish company with offices in Aarhus, Ho Chi Minh City and Hamburg has reached another milestone: Recruitment of employer number 200. Things have been accelerating at great speed in the past couple of years for Danish SPRING Production which is specialised in graphic and digital production, 3D…

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Get-together with Nordcham after summer break

Get-together with Nordcham after summer break

Beat the heat of Hanoi, around 30 people joined Nordcham at the August Get-together in Hanoi on August 14th at The Republic, sponsored by Esoft Vietnam. At the event, Nordcham Chairman and participants welcomed representatives from 4 Nordics Embassies, including new Danish Counsellor- Head of Trade and Commercial – Mr. Troels Jakobsen and new Director of Innovation Norway/Commercial Counsellor of Royal Norwegian Embassy –…

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Tetra Pak opens new packaging material factory

Tetra Pak opens new packaging material factory

Tetra Pak, the world’s leading food processing and packaging solutions company, inaugurated the country’s first-ever aseptic carton packaging material factory in Binh Duong on July 3, adding Vietnam to its global supply chain map. As Tetra Pak’s eighth factory in the Asia-Pacific region, the $135.5 million regional manufacturing facility is set to produce aseptic cartons for domestic and export markets…

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EU set to sign trade and investment agreements with Vietnam

EU set to sign trade and investment agreements with Vietnam

Brussels, 25 June 2019 The Council of Ministers today approved the EU-Vietnam trade and investment agreements, paving the way for their signature and conclusion. EU Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström and Romanian Minister for Business, Trade and Entrepreneurship Ștefan-Radu Oprea will sign the agreement on the EU’s behalf in Hanoi on Sunday 30 June. The agreements are set to bring unprecedented benefits…

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Ericsson drives Industry 4.0 in Vietnam

Ericsson drives Industry 4.0 in Vietnam

As a world technology giant, Sweden’s Ericsson has been supporting Vietnam’s vision of leveraging science, technology, and innovation to drive the next wave of hi-tech foreign direct investment. With recent new agreements, the group is looking to fuel the Vietnamese government’s aim of growing the digital economy and driving the next wave of socio-economic development in 2020-2030. Bich Thuy reports.…

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Denmark’s Niels Brock plans new high school campus in Ho Chi Minh City

Denmark’s Niels Brock plans new high school campus in Ho Chi Minh City

Since 2010, Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College has been offering a 4-year American Bachelor program through the Foreign Trade University. The degree has been accredited by national U.S. education body ACICS; the teaching language is English and the program is taught by both Vietnamese and Danish professors. Now, on the almost ten year anniversary in Vietnam, Niels Brock are deepening…

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Ericsson & VNPT to cooperate in Industry 4.0 and IoT

Ericsson & VNPT to cooperate in Industry 4.0 and IoT

Two sign cooperation agreement on Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT) on May 28 in Sweden. Ericsson and Vietnam’s leading communications service provider, the VNPT Group, signed a cooperation agreement on Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT) on May 28 at the headquarters of the Ericsson Group in Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and…

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Vietnamese dairy firm opens factory in Sweden

Vietnamese dairy firm opens factory in Sweden

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (second row, second left) and his Swedish counterpart Stefan Lofven (second row, third left) witnessed the launch of NutiFood Sweden AB milk factory in Stockholm on May 27, 2019. Photo: Da Trang / Tuoi Tre One of Vietnam’s leading dairy producers, together with two Swedish partners, put their joint venture, a milk factory in…

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Swedish pharma firm plans $220 mln investment in Vietnam

Swedish pharma firm plans $220 mln investment in Vietnam

Leading Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca will invest $220 million to expand its presence in the country. The investment was announced in Stockholm Monday during Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s official visit to Sweden. The firm, in Vietnam for 25 years, will invest in expanding and improving its services and products, creating more local jobs, including 500 in biomedical sciences and…

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