Early November 10, Aeon Vietnam Co.Ltd. under Japan’s Aeon Corporation held a ceremony to inaugurate the Aeon Binh Duong Canary shopping center.
Attending the ceremony were Le Thanh Cung, Chairman of provincial People’s Committee; Nakajima Satoshi, Japanese Consulate General in HCM city; representatives of the Ministry of Industry-Trade and sectors of the province; leaders of Japan’s Aeon Corporation, Aeon Vietnam Co.Ltd. together with nearly 600 enterprises at home and abroad.
Provincial People’s Committee Chairman Le Thanh Cung (left) awarding the certificate of merit to Aeon Vietnam Co.Ltd.
Large-scale mall
Aeon-Binh Duong Canary, the biggest shopping center of the province and Southeastern region, is built on 6 hectares with a total investment capital of US$95mln and a total floor area of 70,000 square meters.
The three-storey shopping center includes 150 shops with famous brand names at home and abroad plus a parking lot for 6,000 motorbikes and 1,000 cars. According to leaders of Aeon Vietnam Co.Ltd., this is the second shopping center of the company in Vietnam. Prior to that, the first facility of the company Aeon Mall Tan Phu Celadon was also inaugurated in HCM city on January 2014.
The birth of Aeon-Binh Duong Canary mall will bring people in the province and region a chance for enjoying new products and services, contributing to improving the quality of their life.
The ground-floor of the shopping center bears a feature on modern city life with shops, namely F.O.S, Giordano, The Blues, Labella, Rosebullet, Edit Tokyo, Japan Zone, Café Phuc Long, Highlands Coffee, Texas Chicken, Lotteria, Carl’s Jr., Jollibee…Customers will experience joyful movements with shops for entertainment such as Dream Games, Play Time, Pinkiss, K&K Toys, My Kingdom…when visiting the first floor of the center.
Meanwhile, the second floor of the center includes many eateries serving foods of different countries, namely Marukame Udon, Nijumary, Shabu Shaby Japan…
One of the highlights of Aeon-Binh Duong Canary is the Aeon General Merchandise Store (GMS) area covering an area of 1.7 hectares and selling foodstuffs and necessities, clothes, and household appliances.
The presence expansion of Aeon Mall Vietnam is part of Aeon Corporation’s business strategy entitled “Asia shift” to forward business development in Asia. Aeon Corporation will also actively open other shopping centers and general merchandise stores in association with the development of its financial services…for sustainable and long-term development in Vietnam.
Facilitating center’s development
Yasuo Nishitohge, General Director of Aeon Vietnam Co.Ltd. said that his company has enjoyed advantages when making investment in Binh Duong. Thanks to provincial leaders’ assistance, Aeon-Binh Duong Canary was built and put into operation on schedule.
He added that the shopping center begun opening on November 1, 2014. On the first opening day, it welcomed more than 101,000 customers and the figure amounted to more than 130,000 on the second day...Up to 60% of customers purchased goods when visiting the center. In general, the operation of the center went on smoothness over the past days.
According to Mr.Cung, Aeon is the leading Japanese retail and financial services corporation. In response of the province’s call for investment, Aeon Corporation has built its shopping center in Thuan An town. Provincial leaders have also spoke highly of the project as it belongs to the field of trade-services that is very suitable to the local socio-economic development orientation.
The birth of Aeon-Binh Duong Canary mall will contribute to well serving the demand for shopping and entertainment of people in the province and region, promoting the local trade-services development. Mr.Cung also affirmed that the local authorities at all levels would create favorable conditions for province-based enterprises in general and Aeon Vietnam Co.Ltd. in particular to more effectively work.
Reported by Trong Minh-Translated by K.T
