“Businessman Spring Golf 2007” – the first golf tournament in the South of Vietnam organised by Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), will take place at Vietnam Golf & Country Club on March 17, 2007 with the participation of 144 golfers.
According to Mr. Doan Duy Khuong, Vice Executive President of VCCI, following the great success of the annual Vietnam Businessman Golf Tournament hosted by VCCI for the first two consecutive years of 2005 and 2006, and some others, the event will offer a good opportunity for businessmen from all economic sectors to exchange views and experience during the international integration of Vietnam, especially to celebrate the first year of WTO membership of Vietnam.
The tournament will also partly enhance image of enterprises, effectively boost marketing strategies, and build up relationships between businesses in the process of international integration. Moreover, the sport event aims at helping business people keep fitness and partly contribute to the development of golf in Vietnam.
“This golf tournament is expected to be one of the most important, exciting sport events of the Vietnamese business community in the South every year,” said the VCCI Vice President.
The participants include leading business people in Vietnam in the fields of finance and banking, insurance, real estate, technology, automobile, construction, and leaders of ministries and organizations, and officials from foreign embassies in Vietnam. Golfers are divided into three groups: A, B, and Callaway, and have chances to win great prizes such as two-way business-class tickets to any destination in Europe from Qatar Airways, and Fiat car worth US$32,000 for the Hole-in-One winner sponsored by Mekong Auto.
Many organizations and enterprises have paid great attention, sponsored and supported to the tournament, including Qatar Airways, Vinamilk, Mekong Auto, and others.
With strong support of the business community, reputation of VCCI, the close cooperation of Masso Group, a professional event organizer, and technical support from Vietnam Golf & Country Club, the tournament will certainly create many new, interesting features for the participants, and be another annual event of the business community.
Following are ideas of the insiders:
Mr. Nguyen Trung Thang, General Director of Masso Group, the co-organiser
Being a Vietnamese enterprise, Masso Group always wants to contribute to Vietnam’s economic integration into the world economy. In the short run, one of the of feasible contributions of Masso Group is the cooperation in organizing Businessman Spring Golf 2007, a professional playing field for connecting business people during opportunities and challenges of Vietnam’s WTO membership.
We hope that this golf tournament will become an annual event for entrepreneurs in the South.
Mr. Ajith Weerasekera, Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways, a strong, five-star aviation firm in the world, has just entered the Vietnamese market with the first flight on March 26, and is interested in sponsoring for the golf tournament with the aim of introducing Qatar Airways image to the market several weeks before its launch of flights in Vietnam.
Qatar Airways wishes to be one of the favorable carriers and play an important role in the active local market, and meet demands for trade development between Vietnam and Europe, Middle East and Africa.
In 2007, Qatar Airways will open an additional nine routes.
Mr. Nguyen Quoc Khanh, Branding Director of Vinamilk
We appreciate the purposes of Businessman Spring Golf 2007. Apart from creating a playing field and meeting point between business people, diplomats and governmental officials, the tournament, held on the occasion of Vietnam’s admission to WTO, also aims to send a message to the Vietnamese business community: “Keeping on exchanging views and experience to day by day develop and fully integrate into the world economy.”
Vinamilk always pays attention to community activities and it is great honour for fruit juice brand FRESH to sponsor for the golf tournament because the brand is now familiar with Vietnamese families in general and businessmen on flights of Vietnam Airlines in particular.
Vinamilk, established in 1976, is accounting for 76 per cent of milk market shares in Vietnam with 183 distributors and nearly 94,000 distribution places. Especially, Vinamilk products have been exported to the US, France, Canada, Polan, Germany, Middle East, ASEAN, and others.
Golfer Dao Quang Trinh, Director of Chau Giang Shoes Company
I have had participated in several golf tournaments hosted by VCCI and always were happy thanks to professional organizing method and large number of golfers who are mainly businessmen. All tournaments were very exciting and best place for us to strengthen business relations.
The memorial tournament for me was the APEC Business Advisory Council Golf Tournament – Vietnam 2006. It was great honour for me to receive the Champion Trophy from former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan. I always welcome all golf tournaments organized by VCCI.
Mr. Tran Bao Minh, Deputy General Director for Marketing, Business and Customer Development of Vinamilk
This is the first year of Vietnam’s admission to WTO, therefore, our company has had to quickly re-arrange its marketing division with clear, certain long-term and short-term marketing strategies. Building a strong trademark system is our first priority. Vinamilk has also invested more than US$1 million in the network administration to maximize the management system.
The key factor to create the competitive edge in WTO field is the readiness in raising input materials. Together with solutions on exploiting and collecting raw materials from traditional material areas, Vinamilk has actively invested in creating private input material sources.
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