Facing a slump in its market for traditional garments and textiles, the industry in Thailand is shifting both its aim and its focus. It is starting to think of regional economies as places not only to sell jeans, suits and dresses but also to manufacture them. With the US, Europe and China seeing weak growth and costs at home going up rapidly,...
Thai retailers are moving up the value chain. What is more, they are already coming from the upper rungs, having more or less always catered to the high end. The country’s premier malls in downtown Bangkok are far more tailored to the rich than malls in the West, or even in Singapore and Hong Kong. Not only do they carry the most expensive...
THE COMPANY: PTT Global Chemical was set up on October 19, 2011 through the successful amalgamation of PTT Chemical and PTT Aromatics and Refining to be the chemical flagship of the PTT Group. Currently, the company has become a world-scale petrochemicals and refining producer with integrated olefins...
Investment overseas has risen rapidly in recent years, especially in manufacturing. According to Bank of Thailand statistics, outward foreign direct investment (FDI) by Thai manufacturing companies in 2012 totalled $14.4bn, up from $8.5bn the previous year and $3.0bn in 2007. The largest manufacturing sub-sector for FDI that year was food...
While derivatives trading has grown significantly since the launch of the Stock Exchange of Thailand’s (SET) Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX) in 2004, liquidity remains concentrated. The SET’s development programme aims to introduce new hedging instruments, from non-agricultural commodity futures to currency swaps and a greater array of single...
With the market capitalisation of its bourse at around BT11.97trn ($391.42bn) as of late March 2014, Thailand has relatively deep and liquid capital markets by regional standards. A derivatives market has grown significantly since 2007, with particular interest in index and single stock futures, as well as gold futures (see analysis). With...
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