Dear Mr. Supawut,
Thank you for meeting us last Friday. My purpose for this email is actually to request for an executive-level meeting on May 1st between the Mall Group’s President or Vice-President and Japan’s Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) is a ministry in charge of local government matters in Japan. CLAIR is an agency under MIC and through promoting local products to foreign markets, we believe the local governments also benefit by expanding demand and keeping local jobs. The Minister of MIC, Ms. Takaichi Sanae, will be making a 3-day visit to Bangkok from April 29 to May 1.
During this visit, the Minister will be mainly meeting with Thai government executive officials, but she has also expressed an interest in getting to know more about Thailand’s supermarket retail scene regarding Japanese products. In particular, the kind of Japanese products that Thai people are interested in, what the expectations of Thai people are with regards to Japanese food etc. The Minister has only one morning for a visit to a private supermarket operator, therefore as CLAIR has been working with your company for the past 2 years and we know that the Mall Group is a very successful entreprise and actively expanding your business, we would like to sincerely ask if your company could host a briefing and short tour of the Siam Paragon Gourmet Market for the Minister.
Proposed date: 1st May 2015 (Friday)
Proposed time: 11 am to 12 noon or 12:30
Venue: Mall Group’s board room in Siam Paragon
Expected no. of visitors: around 10 people including the Minister of MIC, MIC staff, staff of the Embassy of Japan in Thailand, and an interpreter
Suggested content of visit:
• Brief overview of the Mall Group’s structure and activities
• Short tour of the Gourmet Market in Siam Paragon
We know that you will be busy with ongoing expansion plans, but we would be grateful if you could help to ask your President or Vice-President for their availability to host this visit for the Japanese Minister. We believe this will also be a good opportunity for both sides to get to know each other, and feature the Mall Group as a prominent retail operator in Thailand to a Ministerial figure in the Japanese cabinet.
Please kindly consider granting this visit. If you require the Minister’s profile or other information, please feel free to contact me again.