Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong recently pledged to support the expansion of Japanese global apparel retailer Uniqlo in south Vietnam’s largest economic hub. He made the promise while receiving Osamu Ikezoe, general director and chief operating officer of Uniqlo Vietnam. The city will turn a shopping centre of Southeast Asia in future, he said.
“Every year, the city regularly organises dialogues with Japanese businesses, as well as regularly works with the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) to listen to Japanese businesses’ difficulties and solve their problems, with the desire to provide them the most favorable environment,” he was quoted as saying by Vietnamese media reports.
Phong added that the new investment plans of Uniqlo will be a positive highlight in the Vietnam-Japan relationship, helping the relationship between the two sides continue to develop further.
He also hoped that Uniqlo consider cooperating with Vietnamese enterprises producing raw materials.
