Forbes Vietnam recently announced a list of 50 listed companies in 2019

Forbes Vietnam recently announced a list of 50 listed companies in 2019. This is the 7th year that Vietnam Forbes has voted and this is the 7th consecutive year Thien Long is on this list thanks to impressive business results and steady growth over the years.
To make this list, Forbes Vietnam uses the ranking method of Forbes (USA), taking into consideration the characteristics of listed companies in Vietnam. Data used for evaluation are based on the audited financial statements of five consecutive years in the period 2014-2018. Capitalization of companies in the list is finalized in mid-May.

With the main activity of stationery, TLG is one of 3 companies in the household industry among the top rated enterprises. In 2018, despite the economic fluctuations as well as concerns about the prospects of the stationery market, Thien Long recorded growing revenue which increased nearly 14.3%, reached VND 2,856 billion. This is a high growth rate in the last 3 years. Besides, thanks to excellent cost management and proportion of raw materials management, TLG still has had a net profit margin of 10.3%. Thien Long’s profit in 2018 reached over 294 billion dong.

For more than a decade, Thien Long has constantly consolidated and increased the position of the No. 1 stationery company in Vietnam with a distribution network of 65,000 retail outlets spread across the country. Furthermore, TLG continuously invests in modern technology to improve production capacity, human resources and distribution system, expand value chain, and seek opportunities for cooperation and development to reach the biggest goal which is to become the Top 1 Southeast Asia Group and leading Asia in producing and trading stationery.
In addition, the company constantly invests in modern technology and production lines. Currently, the automation rate at TLG has reached more than 75%, helping to increase productivity with a constant number of employees.

Forbes Vietnam judges that Thien Long Group not only organizes production scientifically and competes with cheap Chinese products but also Thien Long’s leadership is very sensitive in grasping new movement trends and deploying marketing activities on a digital platform to promote Thien Long brand to the right customer.

18-YEAR’S ACTIVITIES OF NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAM SUPPORT CAMPAIGN

Many students, motorbike taxi driver and landlords have supported students for free accommodation in the past few years.

After 18 years of implementation, the campaign “National University Entrance Exam Support” has become an annual activity with many meaningful activities.

The motorbike taxi driver supports students

As a motorbike taxi driver in Mien Dong Bus Station, Mr. Thach Ngoc Khanh is widely known for the free or 50% discount motorbike fees for difficult circumstances or poor people. Not many people know that Mr. Khanh has supported students since the campaign was just a small event. 
Over many years, Mr. Khanh has had many memories with students, but there is an unforgettable case that he always remembers. It was an ethnic father that went to Saigon to support his son to take the university exam. “Seeing that they were ethnic people, they seemed to be extremely poor, so I charged them 10,000 VND/trip to drive them to their place. On the way, the father told me that in order to have money for his son to take this exam; he had to sell his chickens and dogs. Listening to this story, I could not take money from him.” – Mr. Khanh recalled.
Supporting under the heavy rain

Reminding about the memories with this campaign, Tran Thi Hoai Phuong, an alumni of Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities, said: “Joining and supporting this campaign is the most memorable memory in my life. I remember the time when my team was covering students under the heavy rain to take them to the examination room because the umbrella was so small so I gave it to them. I can get wet, but they should not get wet because they may get a cold and it can lead to worse situation”. 

Accompanying this campaign from early days, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Tam – General Director of Thien Long Group also said that 18 years ago when the city government organized this campaign, Thien Long Group realized the excellent meaning behind of it and wanted to support for this meaningful campaign.

The campaign “National University Entrance Exam Support” originally formed from the activity called  “Supporting students to take university entrance exams” organized by Ho Chi Minh City Student Support Center in 1997.

At the beginning, this campaign was implemented on a small scale in two bus stations which were Ben Xe Mien Dong and Ben Xe Mien Tay, with the aim of helping students and their relatives in the suburban area to have safe accommodation in Ho Chi Minh City. In 2002, the program was expanded on a national scale as the National University Entrance Exam campaign to day.
 
THE 2019 COLOR FESTIVAL HAS COME TO CHILDREN IN THE NORTHEN AREA OF VIETNAM

Following Hanoi and Can Tho, on June 22, the painting contest “2019 Colors Festival” officially landed in Bac Giang city, a small city in the Northern region. The festival took place with a lot of delightful laughter of the children and teachers in Lang Giang district. Let’s check out the highlight of this activity! 

Painting contest “For A Green Vietnam”

This is the 2nd year of the Color Festival campaign. With the theme “For a Green Vietnam”, the Organizers are the Government Council, Ministry of Education and Training, Thien Long Group and Colokit, wished to arouse natural love, environmental protection awareness, and the thinking ability of children to search and train more talented and passionate children that had great sense of art. 

Coming to this festival in Bac Giang, there were representatives from Government which were Ms. Hoang Tu Anh, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee, Director of the Vietnam Center for Support and Development of Children; Mr. Nguyen Thanh Huong, Principal Officer of the

Department of Political Education and Student Affairs, Ministry of Education and Training, representatives of local agencies and representatives of Thien Long Group, especially, there were enthusiastic participation of more than 500 students in Tan Thinh ward (Lang Giang district). 
Experiencing the color activity in a creative way

Besides painting activities, children also had the opportunity to participate in many funny games, such as: Passing the ball with the back; Bowling colors; Blindfold painting; Find differences between the pictures, etc. Especially, the children also experienced 02 new activities which were “Modeling Clay” and painting on tablet devices with 4D Coloring Book. 

Those children who attended the 2019 Color Festival would receive 01 set of oil pastel and 01 set of colored markers. The organizers encouraged students to use Colokit Brand to get the best quality. 

THE FINAL AWARD OF THE 2019 CONTEST: “I LOVE VIETNAMESE LETTERS”

In the morning of July 14, the final and award ceremony “I love Vietnamese letters” 2019 took place at Ho Chi Minh City Children’s House. In the excitement and eagerness, the contest welcomed more than 460 elementary students from 24 to participate. As a result, up to 40% of the contestants won prizes at the contest.

This event is considered as the continuation event of the competition that was held within the previous four months. The competition was organized by Ho Chi Minh City Children’s House and Thien Long Group’s with the goal of educating the young generation with a sense of respecting and preservation of the beauty of Voice and Script of Vietnamese.

The general requirement for the entries of this year’s final round is the beautiful handwriting, right spelling, right topic, clean presentation, and using pure Vietnamese words.

The final exam round will include 05 groups corresponding to 05 grades. Unlike the festival 1st season of “I love Vietnamese letter, in this second season, the competition expanded to students who were in first grade and second grade. 

After competing, the contest had 185 winners in all 06 groups (from grade 1 to grade 5 and 1 group of free candidates). The free participation group has 5 students who have completed the excellent test and won the highest prize. 

Over 2 seasons, the contest “I love Vietnamese letter” is considered as a meaningful competition for children to practice their handwriting letters thereby helping them to form good quality.