ADVANC Newly installed AIS chief vows 4G fight – Speeding up acquisition of spectrum bandwidth is the biggest challenge facing the new boss of Advanced Info Service (AIS) as the company battles to maintain its status as the country’s biggest mobile operator. (Bangkok Post, 04/07/14) AQUA AQUA says profit grew in 2Q14. It said that […]

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AMATA AMATA sees signs of resumption of foreign investment in Thailand due to easing of the political situation and approvals by the BoI, expected to appeal to European, American, and Chinese investors. It is negotiating to buy 700-800 rai in Amata Nakorn and Amata City industrial estates. It is also waiting for a new government […]

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First of all – who is THRE and what is their business? THRE is a professional reinsurer which offers reinsurance coverage in all major property and casualty business lines, with particular expertise in property, casualty, engineering, marine and life customers. Its customers are mostly local life and non-life insurers and a selected number of customers […]

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FPI FPI aims to access trading market and increase capacity after completing its warehouse in 4Q14. It wants to increase marketing staff to support sales. It expects 2014 revenue of Bt1.9bn and 2015 revenue growth of 15%. (Khao Hoon, 02/07/14) JAS JAS repurchases shares for four days. The number of shares repurchased has hit10.7mn shares […]

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Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 219 mn AUCT – Strange transaction a match by the buyers/sellers on the market RS – This Sorat fellow has been constantly buying shares in RS for the past few years in order to become more prominent in RS TVO – A director buys a substantial stake in TVO, are margins […]

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AOT AOT says 3QFY14 passenger traffic contracted 7% due to political problems and seasonality. Its MD expects performance to gradually recover in FY4Q14. It expects passenger traffic and revenue growth of 3%. The second phrase of Suvarnabhumi is waiting for NCPO decision. (Khao Hoon, 30/06/14) Comment: Having just flown back to Thailand last night, I […]

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There have been a few corporate deals in the past 2 weeks, True, Property Perfect and WHA come to mind, today we’ll talk about Property Perfect, only because a friend/reader came up with a potentially wonderful gameplan for the company (should they pull it off) and lets go through the steps here. Note: This is […]

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Thailand Rush on to bring down trade barriers – ASEAN member states have urged one another to eliminate barriers on some sensitive products after almost 100% of goods already have zero tariffs, in order to encourage more trade within the region, according to the Thai Commerce Ministry’s Trade Negotiations Department. (Bangkok Post, 26/06/14) Permanent secretary […]

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