Hanoi (VNA) –The Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex) set a goal of achieving381.6 trillion VND (16.4 billion USD) in consolidated pre-tax profit in2020, during its annual general meeting of shareholders on August 18.
Thisyear’s revenue of the parent company is expected to be at about 1.33 trillion VND andprofit before tax at 130.4 trillion VND.
Vinatex's consolidated revenue in 2019reached 20.14 trillion VND and its before-tax profit was 765.5 billion VND.
Tran Quang Nghi,Chairman of Vinatex's Board of Directors, reported that the group posted anaverage annual revenue growth of 12.6 percent in 2015-2020 with profitincreasing by 2.5 percent.
The COVID-19 pandemicdragged down the revenue of Vinatex by 36 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of this year, to just over 3.08trillion VND. Profit stood at 280 billion VND, down 36 percent against the same period lastyear.
The State-owned group earned more than 7.04 trillion VND in revenue in thefirst half and posted 276 billion VND in profit, year-on-year falls of 24.5percent and 20.7 percent, respectively./.