Together with
the development of the market economy in
Vietnam, printing enterprises have increased
both in quantity and quality. According
to the latest statistics of the Vietnam
Printing Association (VPA), there are currently
over 1000 printing enterprises locating
mainly in Ho Chi Minh. SMEs scatter in other
regions across the country.
The arrangement and changes of activities
in state - owned enterprises have contributed
to diversifying the ownership of capital
and boosting the printing industry. The
Statistical Office in Ho Chi Minh City (www.pso.hochiminhcity.gov.vn)
gave the figure that the number of enterprises
doing business in field of publishing, printing
and copying has been increased rapidly over
the past few years.

The leading printing companies are Tran
Phu Printing Company (40 billion pages per
year), No.7 Printing Joint Stock Company
(5 billion pages per year), Tan Binh Culture
Joint Stock Company (Alta) in the South
while in the North they are Aviation Printing
Joint Stock Company, Hanoi Textbooks Printing
Joint Stock Company.
Annually, the printing industry achieves
the output of more than 400 billion pages
with an average increase of over 10% per
year, in which, Ho Chi Minh City holds up
to about 45%. In 2001, the export turnover
of book publishing reached 1,416,023 USD,
and import turnover was 3.5 million USD
and in 2004 the export turnover reached
2.1 million USD, and the import turnover
was 6.1 million USD. |