Australian retail chain wants to buy directly from Vietnam

Officials from Australia’s largest supermarket chain Woolworths will meet Vietnamese agro-seafood processing companies in Ho Chi Minh City today to negotiate and buy goods directly from Vietnam.

They are on a 10-day trip to Vietnam and are seeking to source rice, dried and canned fruits, coffee, packaged tea, vegetables, mushrooms, peanuts and seafood, according to the Southern Trade Promotion Center.

General Director Mark John, who is leading the mission, met Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien and executives of some supermarkets and food companies in Hanoi last week.

The mission will also visit three southern agro-seafood pro factories in HCMC and the Mekong Delta before wrapping up the tour on March 20.

The Vietnamese consulate’s commercial agency in Sydney said Woolworths had held several meetin with it last year over negotiations wig Vietnamese firms for import.

Vinh Bao

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