BAY bullish on SME loans despite economic slowdown – The Bank of Ayudhya (BAY) maintains its 15% growth target for its small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) loans this year on expectations that the country’s economy will return to normal growth in the next six to 12 months. Thailand’s fifth-largest lender by assets typically sets its […]

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HMPRO HomePro bullish on sales — Home Product Center Plc, the operator of HomePro hardware stores, is confident of achieving 15% sales growth this year to Bt39.71bn despite the economic slowdown and weak purchasing power. As up to 80% of Home Pro’s customers are homeowners, they still spend on home repairs or renovations no matter […]

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CK CK optimistic — Thailand’s third-largest contractor by market value expects the cabinet to approve today a contract worth over Bt20bn to supply trains and operation system of the Purple mass-transit rail line. Following the endorsement from the cabinet, the SET-listed subway operator Bangkok Metro Plc will sign the contract with CK this month for […]

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AOT Strong July traffic growth — AOT reported strong traffic in July 2013, with passenger and aircraft movement growth of 16% YoY. This is the tenth month in a row that it has reported double-digit growth. (Company press release) Comment: This is really only one of the few strongly growing large cap co’s in Thailand […]

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After serving food, bakery products and beverages to Thai consumers for 40 years, SET-listed S&P Syndicate Plc (SNP) still sees “huge potential” to grow both domestically and internationally, says Vitoon Sila-On, senior vice-president for domestic operations. “Even with 424 outlets across the nation, the expansion has only just begun,” he says in a discussion about […]

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BKD Listing on mai this quarter — Bangkok Dec-Con (BKD) is to conduct an IPO to sell 180mn shares and be listed in the mai index in 3Q13. Proceeds will be used to expand its business and to help push revenues up by 10-15% from last year’s Bt942.60mn. The company has a current backlog of […]

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AMATA AMATA in power JV — AMATA has revealed plans for a joint investment in a small power plant project worth more than Bt500mn with a capacity of 264MW after the board approved the joint venture plan of its two newly set up companies “Amata B. Grimm Power 4 and Amata B. Grimm Power 5”. […]

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CKP Lower loss QoQ in 2Q13 — CKP reported a net loss of Bt77mn in 2Q13, better than the loss of Bt106mn in 2Q12 but lower than net profit of Bt92.8mn in 1Q13. Behind the negative earnings was a FX loss of Bt246mn vs. FX gain of Bt192mn in 1Q13. Excluding FX impact, its normalized […]

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BTS on fast track – BTS Group Holdings Plc (BTS) reported a reviewed net profit of Bt10.82bn in its first quarter ending June 30 this year, up 5,463.37% YoY. Total revenue surged 1,358.2% to Bt16.04bn during the period, primarily due to both stronger operating performance and gains from the sale of net fare-box revenue to […]

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