CPN opens SME zones at two mall branches

New Thammasat course for suppliers

Central Pattana Plc, the SET-listed home and retail designer under Central Group of Companies, prepares to open long-term zones for regional business owners at CentralPlaza Chiang Mai Airport and Khon Kaen branches in December to assist promote little and medium-sized business (SMEs).

Preecha Ekkunagul, the business’s president and president, stated the business will comply with the Department of International Trade Promo to choose items from regional business owners across the country in the brand-new zones.

The SME zones are anticipated to broaden to all Central branches across the country by 2019, with over 1,000 regional business owners getting involved, he stated.

Mr Preecha stated the business is signing up with hands with Thammasat University to supply CPNlead course– a curriculum for business owners both little and big to develop their competitiveness globally. Through the course, the business will share its experience in broadening sales chances.

” As company ends up being more tough, business owners of all sizes require to adjust to tape-record sustainable development,” he stated. “The course will concentrate on brand-new company designs, development, item advancement concepts, and brand name ideas.”

The business likewise runs “SME Market”, using area at its shopping malls to over 5,000 regional SMEs who offer Otop, provincial and farming products.

Nattakit Tangpoonsinthana, CPN’s executive vice-president of marketing, stated it is the very first business in the retail market to start a training course for Thai SMEs.

” The brand-new generation of businesspeople is really imaginative and has enthusiasm, and CPN wishes to assist them pursue their dreams,” he stated.

In an associated advancement, Mr Nattakit stated the business is most likely to settle a strategy to obtain Grand Canal Land Plc (GLAND) early next month.

CPN Pattaya, its subsidiary, is releasing a compulsory tender deal for the staying shares in GLAND after CPN’s board of directors authorized the acquisition in September of 3.28 billion shares or 50.43% of overall released and exceptional shares of Grand Canal by CPN Pattaya at a cost of 3.10 baht a share. The quantity deserves 10.16 billion baht. The tender deal duration ends today.

CPN shares closed on Tuesday on the SET at 77.25 baht, down 50 satang, in trade worth 144 million baht.