Commentary on special events in Thailand and the SET Index.
The Executive Talk: BCP expanding towards a sustainable future BANGKOK, Sept 11, 2017 – (ACN Newswire) – Bangchak Corporation Public Company Limited (SET:BCP) President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Chaiwat Kovavisarach discusses the company’s strategy and outlook in The Executive Talk (TET) by ShareInvestor.com. TET: How has BCP evolved from a pure refinery company to […]
Read More →TET: Please explain the history of ASAP. Privately we began as a car dealership for Nissan automobiles in 1995 and in 2004 expanded our car dealer business for Toyota Automobiles as well. As we were exploring opportunities to capture new customers, we discovered that most of new customers were looking to rent or lease vehicles […]
Read More →It’s all over the news and brokers research notes this AM about PTT mentioning the potential replacement of 7-11 stores by its own Jiffy stores over the coming years. Jiraporn Khaosawas, managing director of wholly owned PTT Retail Marketing Co (PTTRM), said PTT has several years to prepare before the 7-Eleven outlets are replaced. It […]
Read More →So I’ve gone through as many listed company results as possible over the past few weeks and not just Thailand but most of ASEAN, given that I do only comment on Thai related companies here, comments will remain Thai specific. Without a doubt Thailand had the worst performance amongst all the countries in the region […]
Read More →And its game time! Thai Beverage has just bought ~240 KFC stores from Yum Brands, which means they immediately surpass the 200 stores that are run by Central Group. Quick thoughts: THBEV is desperate for growth and they’ve been doing a decent job at leveraging their balance sheet to do so as seen with the […]
Read More →His August 2017 Commentary focuses on two key issues, productivity and liquidity. I’ve always thought that following capital flow is just as important if not more so than good old fashion company analysis because the majority of one’s returns are determined by the asset class/market/sector etc that one’s investment holding is in. Here’s my favourite […]
Read More →On Bloomberg last week they put up a quick article on AOT. It’s a well-known fact that tourism is one of the few bright spots for Thailand for the past …. forever. And there is only one pure play for it and that is AOT. The problem however is that it is the most expensive […]
Read More →If you want a good summary highlighting every issue that Thailand is facing at the moment then you could do far worse than this one, here’s a snippet and a link to the rest of the article. Raising Thailand’s global skills game is not easy when you are on your 20th education minister in 17 […]
Read More →Everyone once in a while there’s a comment that there is going to be a bond crisis in Thailand, I just don’t see it. Here’s the issue with these BE’s They are junk companies. They were able to get paper financing at rates lower than bank financing (IFEC with single digit cost of funding for […]
Read More →The change in the petrol retail industry in Thailand was first started by PTT Group when they constructed the first half decent stations with retail outlets, coffee shops, f&B etc, over a decade ago. Following on from this the other players, i.e. Shell, Esso, Bangchak did try to follow suit but never really took off […]
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