Vietnam’s top 10 brands worth nearly $7 bln

Vietnam's State Securities Commission has fined Platinum Victory VND35 million ($1,500) for conducting a transaction ahead of the registered schedule.

Vinamilk's bid to acquire a 49 percent stake in GTN Foods, which owns 51 percent of Moc Chau Milk, has been rejected.

Foreign-invested firms dominate rankings of best workplaces, but Vietnamese peers are more conspicuous in the top 20.

Vietnam’s biggest dairy company plans to open a plant in Myanmar this year and is preparing to enter Indonesia and China. 

A Singaporean shareholder in Vinamilk is seeking to increase its stake in Vietnam’s largest dairy firm.

Foreign firms still dominated the top 20, but there were more Vietnamese firms in the top five than ever before.

Jardine Cycle & Carriage now holds a 10 percent stake in the Vietnamese dairy giant.

Shares in Vietnam's largest listed firm responded to the news on Monday by reaching a record high.

The buyer paid 24 percent more than the asking price to seal the deal.

The sale is expected on November 10 and would reduce the state ownership in Vinamilk, Vietnam’s biggest listed firm, to 36 percent.

The sale will be absent of some of the restrictions applied to last year’s sale, such as a purchase cap on each individual investor

The sale of a 3.33 percent stake is expected in October and foreign investors would be able to bid.

The dairy giant's ads and marketing spending averages VND1 billion per hour as it bets on the fast-growing market.