Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Company Enriching Life with Natural Values

In 2012, global economic downturn adversely hit the business community in general and Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Company in particular. To deal with unexpected circumstances, the company focused on developing business and production operations, improving technical innovation, and expanding markets. Thus, all production and business targets were achieved. The company’s products like natural original swiftlet nest, natural purified swiftlet nest drink and Sanest drink meet market requirements. The company also actively creates new lines of products like purified salangane nest drink or full nest. With its efforts, the company attained revenue of VND2,624 billion in 2012, up 45 percent over 2011, paid more than VND287 billion to the State Budget, up 15 percent year on year, and paid VND6.8 million to each employee a month on average.

 

In order to scale up operations, the company has invested in some big projects like Cam Thinh high-grade swiftlet nest drink factory with an annual output of 50 million products, Dien Khanh swiftlet nest material processing factory with annual output of 30 million products, and Sanna refreshment water plant in Cam Ranh Sanna. The company also opened branches in Cambodia, swiflet nest centre in Phu Yen province, many swiftlet ports and shops across the country. The company’s high-grade Sanest bird nest drink plant, which went into operation in 2003, has expanded another production branch with a yearly output of 50 million products in Cam Ranh to meet the growing demand of customers. Most products of the factory are for export. The new high-grade bird nest drink production facility will give a boost to industrial, service and commercial development in the south of Cam Ranh City.

 

Together with boosting up operation scale, the company has been developing new markets. Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Company applies quality management systems to its production and business operations like ISO:9001, HACCP, IFS (EU) and BRC (UK) standards to ensure export to the European Union (EU). The company’s 40 product lines have made presence in 21 countries and territories in the world, including new South Korea, Australia and Japan, and opened its showrooms and stores in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA, Japan, Australia, Laos and especially in G20 countries. The company’s exported product lines have trademarks registered in 42 countries. As for the domestic market, the company has set up 700 distributors in 63 provinces.

 

Mr Le Huu Hoang, General Director of Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Company, said the company’s brand value is created by three factors. Firstly, swiftlet nest is edible and highly nutritious. Salangane belongs to Aerodramus fuciphagus germani family which is endemic to Vietnam’s central costal region. Khanh Hoa features the largest concentration of salangane of Aerodramus fuciphagus germani family in the world. Secondly, due to geochemical origin, chemical composition and different minerals in steep granite cliffs, caves, sea water, and wind in Khanh Hoa make bird nests rich in micronutrient and multi-nutrient and locally unique. Thirdly, Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Company takes the lead in the country in managing, exploiting, processing and developing natural bird nests and is a top company in Southeast Asia to perform scientific study on swiftlet and nest quality. Currently, the company manages 32 islands and 154 caves with swiftlet nests and 18 units and member companies.