Unique: Vietnam’s Truong Hai considers stake sale in $5 billion automotive arm

SINGAPORE/HANOI, June 28 (Reuters) – Vietnamese conglomerate Truong Hai Group, based by tycoon Tran Ba Duong, is contemplating bringing in an investor into its cars arm Thaco Auto in a deal that might worth the unit at round $5 billion, two folks accustomed to the matter mentioned.

Truong Hai Group is in talks with a monetary advisor to discover the potential sale of a minority stake in Thaco Auto after receiving pursuits from regional monetary buyers and corporates, the sources mentioned.

The group may very well be promoting about 20% in Thaco Auto, one of many sources mentioned. Deliberations have been ongoing and no choices have been made, the sources mentioned, declining to be named because the matter is personal.

Funds raised may very well be used to finance Truong Hai Group’s properties initiatives, one of many sources mentioned.

Thaco Auto, manufactures and distributes automobiles together with passenger vehicles and bikes from manufacturers starting from KIA to BMW to its personal Thaco model of buses, based on its web site. It has over 400 showrooms and repair facilities throughout the nation and 7 factories.

Truong Hai Group can be a developer of residential and business properties, together with the over 1 million sq. metre city undertaking referred to as Sala Metropolis in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis.

Troung Hai Group and Thaco Auto didn’t reply to requests in search of remark.

The potential deal comes at time when the Vietnamese authorities is aiming to spice up localisation charges in its automotive sector and investments into the event of electrical automobiles to develop into a regional hub for car manufacturing and exports.

Vietnam, dwelling to a inhabitants of virtually 100 million, nonetheless has international carmakers akin to Toyota and Honda dominating its automotive sector however native manufacturers akin to VinFast (VFS.O) and Thaco Auto are quick gaining prominence partly as a consequence of help from the federal government.

Based in 1997 in Dong Nai province close to Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, Truong Hai Group, previously often called Truong Hai Auto Corp, began as a used automobiles dealer and repairer, based on its web site.

It later expanded to develop into a conglomerate with six companies together with cars, agricultural manufacturing, development and logistics, its web site exhibits.

Reporting by Yantoultra Ngui in Singapore and Phuong Nguyen in Hanoi; Enhancing by Kane Wu and David Evans

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