Vietnam's Becamex is Platinum Sponsor at
the
APEC
2011 CEO Summit
Pictures
above:
Conversation session with US President Obama and a panel discussion
that included the Prime Minister of Singapore (pictures credit: APEC
2011
USA Host Committee; photographer Ross Hamamura)
At the APEC CEO Summit Becamex was one of the Platinum(top level) sponsors. Other Platinum sponsors included Google, Walmart, Microsoft, Boeing, Caterpillar, Chevron, Dow, Eli Lilly & Co., Johnson & Johnson among a total of 22 Platinum sponsors. Becamex from Binh Duong, Vietnam was the first Asian sponsor to commit to APEC and one of only four other Asian companies at the highest level. Others were Sumitomo from Japan, ICBC Bank from China and HTC from Taiwan. Twenty other companies sponsored at the lower Gold level and included Nissan, Cargill, GE and other major companies.
As will be noted, most of the above company names are worldwide brands with international standing. Becamex, although a famous Vietnam brand, and with a company history that dates back over 30 years is not so famous. Becamex with 30 subsidiary companies and assets of over $5 billion and over 2,500 employees is not a small company but it is certainly not comparable in resources or worldwide reach to Boeing, Microsoft, Caterpillar or other big world brands. The opportunity of APEC was the chance to brand your company with some of the most famous worldwide brands. Becamex CEO Nguyen Van Hung who is known in Vietnam for his vision and leadership felt the risks were worth the potential returns. He also felt that sponsorship of APEC offered Becamex an opportunity to draw the world’s attention to Vietnam as a site for investment and growth and to expose Vietnam’s young but up and coming business executives to the issues that will characterize the 21st Century. |
To help meet the challenge of all the work that would be required for Becamex to present itself as professionally as possible and give a consistent and positive branding message, Mr. Hung gathered a team of young Vietnamese managers from across Becamex subsidiaries and the parent company. To supplement and coordinate their work, he asked Runckel & Associates which has worked with Becamex for over eight years to support Becamex efforts. This decision was made not only because Runckel & Associates has done such efforts in the past but also because Runckel & Associates President Chris Runckel has had long experience with APEC having headed US government efforts to organize the first APEC Leaders meeting in Seattle in 1993 plus work at other APECs and work in coordinating visits worldwide for US President’s for over 30 years.
APEC today is vastly different than what it was in 1993 in Seattle. Business was key to the APEC meetings in Hawaii, not just an appendage or an afterthought as was frankly the case in Seattle. Further, there was a real attempt to have a dialogue in Hawaii and not just the one-way speeches that have characterized past APEC CEO Summits. In 2011, dynamic staging, sound, digital and visual presentations were integrated to help support and enhance the meeting process. Although not everything worked as well as might have been hoped, certainly the overall result was a much better meeting and this fact was commented upon by virtually all of the attendees we spoke to. For Becamex and its efforts in the midst of APEC 2011, the challenge was clear. The result was also clear - Becamex performed at the top level and although the question was often heard “Who is Becamex”, the answer was also quickly responded by an active staff of Becamex professionals, brochure, advertisement, video clips with and without sound and other marketing aids that Vietnam was a place to note and that in Vietnam Becamex was the company to watch.   Pictures left: some of the Becamex
team. Right: Ms. Monika Nguyen -
Chief Representative for European Market for Becamex and a person with
a deep understanding of Vietnam and Vietnamese culture exchanges
business cards with APEC attendees and helps to explain Becamex
activities and the opportunities in Vietnam.
Many of the Vietnamese companies attending either the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) or the APEC CEO Summit commended Becamex on the professional way they carried off their Platinum level sponsorship. They noted that such a well produced and executed sponsorship created a positive response for all Vietnamese companies as the fact that Becamex was already working at the highest levels also helped to show that Vietnam was a place to watch. In addition, virtually without exception most of the other APEC Platinum and Gold level sponsors commended Becamex on its work and expressed interest in better knowing and in the future working with Becamex. The Asia Pacific Region is one of the most dynamic regions in the world. Speakers and business leaders at APEC repeatedly made the point that they see their future in Asia. Becamex supports such sentiments and is stepping up to lead Vietnamese companies into this new era. |
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About BecamexIDC: Becamex, the largest infrastructure, industrial park developer and operator and one of the largest real estate companies in Vietnam. Becamex has over 2,500 employees and has over 5 Billion (US) dollars in assets and is a very successful conglomerate with operations in many sectors primarily in the South of Vietnam but also through its majority owned subsidiary Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Parks (VSIP) with operations in the North and South of Vietnam. The company operates a total of over 20 industrial parks including the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) in conjunction with the Singapore government and the My Phuoc Industrial City, the largest integrated industrial and!supporting industries project in the country. Binh Duong New City is a project conceived by the Binh Duong provincial government and the provinces leading state-owned company, Becamex IDC Corp. The New City is well on the way to actual completion!and already has all the infrastructure and many of the focal sites like a large and modern International University, a logistics/business center operated by Mapletree in Singapore plus golf course, residential, commercial and government buildings - much of them already under construction!and the remainder in the late planning stages. Becamex Group has 30 subsidiaries and affiliates focused on banking, financing, securities, process and manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, trading especially investment and development of industrial, commercial and residential projects. Total employees: 2.500 Management staffs: 230 Engineers: 90 Foreign experts: 30 Main fields of operation: • Investment in construction and trading
infrastructure of industrial parks.
• Investment, trading residential area. • Real estate trading. • Financing, Banking and Security. • Producing and trading pharmaceutical, cosmetic and health materials. • Civil Construction, industry and transportation. • Project investment in the form of B.O.T, B.O. • Rock cutter and other minerals. • Produce and process raw material for rubber industry, construction material. • Commercial trading, import – export service. • Financial investment into local and foreign companies. Follow
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Website: www.becamex.com.vn/en Becamex Press Release: click here About the Author: Christopher Runckel, President of Runckel & Associates Becamex Senior Advisor Christopher W. Runckel, a former senior US diplomat who served in many counties in Asia, is a graduate of the University of Oregon and Lewis and Clark Law School. He served as Deputy General Counsel of President Gerald Ford’s Presidential Clemency Board. Mr. Runckel is the principal and founder of Runckel & Associates, a Portland, Oregon based consulting company that assists businesses expand business opportunities in Asia. (www.business-in-asia.com) Until April of 1999, Mr. Runckel was Minister-Counselor of the US Embassy in Beijing, China. Mr. Runckel lived and worked in Thailand for over six years. He was the first permanently assigned U.S. diplomat to return to Vietnam after the Vietnam War. In 1997, he was awarded the U.S. Department of States highest award for service, the Distinguished Honor Award, for his contribution to improving U.S.-Vietnam relations. |
