RATCH in talks with 2 powerplants operations on M&A to offset revenue lost from retirement powerplants in Ratchburi during 2025-27. SCB, BBL and KTB followed KBANK’s lead in cutting lending rates by 25 bps, while keeping the MLR (prime rate) unchanged, responding to Bank of Thailand’s surprise rate cut last wk. Deposit rates were left […]
Read More →BA has named South Korea’s Lotte as its partner to vie for concessions to operate duty-free shops at BKK’s main airport and 3 regional ones. Comment: Lotte has been vying for a spot in Thailands duty free market for years just look @ the mall they invested in next to RCA BGRIM sees erngs bottom […]
Read More →AOT said passengers thru its six airports reached 38m in 1Q19, +4.49% yoy, largely driven by a rebound of Chinese arrivals. Foreigners travelers 23.194m +5.3%, domestic passenger 15.539m -1.2% yoy. Comment: Just wait for next year’s numbers, I wouldn’t be surprised to see another +20% jump in Chinese tourists AU target 15% revenue growth this […]
Read More →AOT to seeks Treasury Department deal to extend the remaining 14-year land lease contract to new 30-year contract, to accommodate upcoming concession bids for duty-free and commercial areas. DOD denied rumors its major shareholders were dumping share, sees return to profit in 1Q, mulls at least 5 investment projects. KBANK estimate JV with LINE Corp, […]
Read More →AOT to propose plan to build 2nd terminal at Suvarnabhumi to Transport Min next week, citing urgent need as total passengers this yr is expected to reach 70m, vs 45m capacity. Comment: Although when you walk around the airport you’ll see that they could simple man each desk at immigration and the security lines and […]
Read More →AGE AGE plans to enter a new business, providing logistics service by land and water, ports and warehouses. It expects revenue from these of Bt900mn in 2019 and targets total revenue of Bt9bn. Management is confident that coal sales volume will reach 4mn tons this year. (Thun Hoon, 4/1/19) BIZ BIZ signed a sales contract […]
Read More →Here’s the headlines from companies during the holiday period – no comments Stocks in the news (crd, itel, ktb, ktc, maco, meta, ocean, ptt, tasco) 24.12.18 CRD CRD expects many jobs next year, especially from private entities. Management targets revenue of Bt1.6-1.8bn next year from the expected Bt1.3bn this year. It expects backlog to reach […]
Read More →BANPU BPP, a subsidiary of BANPU, will start commercial operations of a solar farm in Japan. BANPU will begin to book revenue from this shareholding of 15.35MW in 4Q18. BANPU has total electricity production capacity of 2,100MW. It expects earnings of Bt8.8bn, supported by higher coal price and revenue sharing from the power plant business. […]
Read More →AH AH expects revenue to grow in line with growth in the automotive industry. 4Q18 revenue is expected to be better, backing its revenue growth target of 5% this year. (Thun Hoon, 27/11/18) KBANK KBANK continues to expand in ASEAN+3. Laos is its potential target. Private sector growth in Laos will help underwrite loan growth. […]
Read More →BGRIM BGRIM expects earnings growth of 15-20% this year. It will start commercial operation of a 31MW solar farm in December as planned. This will rise 4Q18 revenue. (Thun Hoon, 9/11/18) Comment: Plus Ft rates are up CHO, SCN BMTA (Bangkok Mass Transit Authority) will pay for 100 NGV buses plus maintenance fee to SCN-CHO […]
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