HCMC – LG Mobile inaugurated the first brand shop in Vietnam on Wednesday to provide Vietnamese customers with the latest mobile phone products and better after-sales services.
Ko Tae Yeon, general director of LG Electronics Vietnam Co. Ltd., told the Daily after the grand opening ceremony of the LG Brand Shop at 790 Hong Bang Street in HCMC’s District 11 that this was one of the 10 shops planned in the country in the years to come.
Yeon said the new LG mobile shops would be up and running in major cities of Vietnam, including HCMC, Hanoi and Danang to introduce a variety of new LG phone designs to local customers.
Yeon said LG mobile products had been sold to Vietnamese consumers through some 200 mobile phone retail centers nationwide over the past years, and now also at the new shop in HCMC.
He added the company would bring the LG smart phone to the market this year.
The phones available for sale at the LG Brand Shop were assembled and produced in different markets including Korea and Vietnam.
Yeon said economic difficulties had made the mobile phone market tend to follow low-cost products for end-users, and therefore LG brought to the Vietnamese market the phones having competitive prices. He quoted sources as saying that the current market share of LG mobile products in Vietnam was around 6%.