AOT Airport departure tax hike stalled — A bid by Airports of Thailand (AoT) to increase airport departure taxes has been stalled by the political conflict but counter check-in fees will go up anyway, by five baht. Department of Civil Aviation chief Woradej Harnprasert said it was unlikely the planned departure tax increase would be […]
Read More →CPN CPN invests Bt50mn in “CPN the Great Chinese New Year 2014” campaign. It hopes to stimulate consumption and aims shoppers growing 10-20%. (Khao Hoon, 23/1/14) Comment: This company has grown with Thailand’s upcountry growth in the past few years, I can’t really believe rumours that they are supporting the protests at all. GLAND GLAND […]
Read More →CPALL CPALL enters new year with plan to penetrate online shopping business — CPALL has set up a new company called “Twenty Four Shopping Co Ltd” to cater to modern consumer demand for 24 hour shopping. The company targets sales of Bt4.3bn in the first year. (CPALL, 08/01/14) Comment: Small overall impact on the total […]
Read More →AIE AIE confirms strong fundamentals and said 2013 revenue will be Bt4.2bn with 2014 revenue at Bt5.5bn, supported by B7 bio-diesel. It aims to list on mai in January 2014. (Khao Hoon, 16/12/13) BAY BAY expects Bt36bn new property loans in 2013, beating its target of Bt28bn. It is seeing a steady drop in NPLs […]
Read More →BMCL MRTA not to take rights — The MRTA board decided that it will not take its rights in BMCL’s capital increase and will allow its holdings to be diluted to 14%. MRTA’s CFO and financial advisors said that the decision will have no impact on the company’s management as it already holds the concession. […]
Read More →AOT Transport Minister: Look at costs before allowing PSC rise — Chatchart Sithipun, transport minister, said he wants to take a look in detail at AOT’s cost rises before make the decision about raising passenger service charge, because there are more opponents than supporters. (Khao Hoon, 29/10/13) Comment: i’ve been reading that there will be […]
Read More →APCO Raising growth target again — APCO is raising its earnings target again to growth of 70-75% YoY. The company expects 4Q13s to be outstanding as it is the high season. (Khao Hoon, 11/10/13) Comment: Never heard of this company before, no idea what it is CPALL Cutting MAKRO holding — CPALL is planning to […]
Read More →ADVANC AIS tries new approach for roaming fees – Advanced Info Service (AIS) is introducing an unlimited mobile chat package to ease consumer fears over exorbitant international roaming fees when using their phone overseas. (Bangkok Post, 08/10/13) CMO New venture with Zaap — CMO announced a joint venture with Zaap, called CMO-Zaap, a new company […]
Read More →CPALL Expects 13-15% sales growth — CPALL is confident that sales will grow by 13-15%, and insists that it will continue to expand despite the domestic consumption slowdown. (Khao Hoon, 03/10/13) Comment: The key story here is on how they are re financing their debts from the MAKRO takeover DTAC 3mn 3G customers — DTAC […]
Read More →BAY BAY to issue 1.14bn shares to BTMU — BAY will issue 1.14bn shares at Bt39 each via private placement to the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) under a conditional branch purchase agreement, according to BAY’s filing to the Stock Exchange of Thailand. (The Nation, 19/09/13) Comment: Will need to read more into this, however […]
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