CENTEL Food, hotels getting equal slice of Centel’s Bt24bn pie — CENTEL has earmarked Bt24bn to expand its hotel and food businesses through next year. Of the total, half will be spent this year and the other half next. The investment budget has been evenly allocated to hotels and food at 50:50. It plans seven […]

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CPALL CP outlines Bt2.5bn expansion — CP All, the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores, intends to invest Bt2.5bn to build four distribution centers across the country to support its future expansion in which the number of stores would reach 10,000 by 2017. The first center, which is under construction at a cost of Bt1bn in […]

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BECL Case against BECL dismissed —On May 3, the Central Administrative Court dismissed the case filed by EXAT in 2008 appealing the arbitral award, and thus EXAT is again facing a payment of Bt1.79bn (plus interest until completely paid off) to NECL. This was earlier awarded by a court in compensation for a reduction in […]

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Notable transactions Buy(s): THB 471.5 PAE – Eh?! How did the MD manage to buy this amount of shares at such a discount to market, we’ve done 10-20% but 35%? PM – Interesting, despite the stock rallying strongly to this level, management still decides to purchase 50 mil baht worth TFD – Again I have […]

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CPF CPF puts foreign projects on fast track to tap strong baht — CPF has accelerated its investment overseas with a series of new food projects to take advantage of cheap financing costs. Some projects to materialize this year include a chicken burger production unit in the UK and the launch of ready-to-eat meals production […]

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