BEAUTY BEAUTY open to more foreign partners as it hopes this will put it in the lead in the ASEAN hub. The company plans to invest Bt200mn to open 78 new branches to help bump profits up by 20% a year. It said that the political turmoil has not harmed performance – sales in April […]
Read More →AAV Thai AirAsia X to take to the skies in June – Thai AirAsia X, Thailand’s first long-haul low-cost airline, will take to the skies about two months from now despite the tourism market being dragged down by the country’s political turmoil. After putting off the launch previously planned for the first quarter, Thai AirAsia […]
Read More →EA 90MW generation this month — EA is confident that its solar farm will generate 90MW this month. It said that next year it will built a new plant in Lampang for another 90MW at a cost of Bt7bn. (Khao Hoon, 04/12/13) Comment: This is an incredible large solar farm, we doubt the long term viability of […]
Read More →BKD Listing on mai this quarter — Bangkok Dec-Con (BKD) is to conduct an IPO to sell 180mn shares and be listed in the mai index in 3Q13. Proceeds will be used to expand its business and to help push revenues up by 10-15% from last year’s Bt942.60mn. The company has a current backlog of […]
Read More →AMATA AMATA in power JV — AMATA has revealed plans for a joint investment in a small power plant project worth more than Bt500mn with a capacity of 264MW after the board approved the joint venture plan of its two newly set up companies “Amata B. Grimm Power 4 and Amata B. Grimm Power 5”. […]
Read More →With politics not causing much of a ruckus does that mean investors can go back to continuing to focus upon the fundamentals as 2Q13 earnings are being released in full force as the 15th August 2013 deadline approaches. Or is this the calm before the storm as the queen’s birthday allowed a temporary respite? PM […]
Read More →CKP Lower loss QoQ in 2Q13 — CKP reported a net loss of Bt77mn in 2Q13, better than the loss of Bt106mn in 2Q12 but lower than net profit of Bt92.8mn in 1Q13. Behind the negative earnings was a FX loss of Bt246mn vs. FX gain of Bt192mn in 1Q13. Excluding FX impact, its normalized […]
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