Market Insights

More than 40 businesses have been added to the list of rice exporters under the Government’s newly revised decree on rice export, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Import and Export Department. The additional businesses are allowed to export...

FOR YEARS NOW, Vietnam has been the world’s second-largest coffee exporter, according to the International Coffee Organization. And yet, for all the fervor over single-origin beans from Central America and Africa, third-wave-coffee culture has been slow to...

Various indicators have been still showing Vietnam as a highly potential destination for foreign players to tap into its food and beverage market. However, domestic retailers as well as Vietnam-owned food and beverage chains seems to outpace their international...

International coffee trade flows saw strong growth in 2018, driven by Brazil and Vietnam. The new Rabobank Coffee Map reveals five key themes shaping current and future coffee flows. While some trends are global, we also identify local trends that are taking...

Vietnam’s mergers and acquisitions market is abuzz in food and beverages, as well as in consumer goods, as the competitive landscape evolves and rivals reshape their...

According to the recently-released Top 50 Brands report by Forbes Vietnam, the country’s top spot fell to dairy giant Vinamilk at US$2.24bn, whereas Vietnam’s biggest brewer Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Corp (Sabeco) came in third at US$486mn, and...

Preservation and processing technologies are the key to increasing the value of farm produce exports, experts say. While the farm produce export situation was lackluster in the first five months of 2019, fruit exports gained encouraging achievements with export...

China’s ban on plastic waste imports at the beginning of 2018 had severe impacts worldwide, especially on the F&B industry which received much flak, and South East Asia which initially bore the brunt of plastic refuse. Eighteen months on, we take a look at how...

Many foreign coffee chains have failed to secure their positions in the market, but Vietnamese owned chains have reported revenue growth in recent years. But not all of them have made high...

The agriculture sector in the first half of this year attracted about VND11.4 trillion (US$491.3 million) to 11 new and existing projects processing farming products, according the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The ministry said since 2018,...