At an online conference with relevant departments, People’s Committees of districts and businesses to implement the plan No. 190 of the People’s Committee of Can Tho city on economic recovery and development, safe production and business organization, Mien Tay Export Food Processing Joint Stock Company (Westfood) has proposed many solutions to promote production and business in the new situation.
Plan 190 is implemented in two phases. In the first phase, from now until the end of 2021, the industries that can be reopened include: production, business, services, export in service of life, agriculture, and basic construction. Phase 2 from January 1, 2022 onwards, on the basis of re-evaluating phase 1, drawing lessons learned, setting out next tasks, moving towards full economic recovery.
At the conference, Westfood proposed the city allow businesses to add “3 on-the-spot” workers to meet signed orders, consuming all 960 tons of MD2 pineapples that have been contracted to consume with farmers before September 22, 2021 as well as enough resources to receive new orders.
Westfood and businesses participated in an online conference with Vice Chairman of Can Tho People’s Committee
At the proposal of Westfood and businesses, Vice Chairman of the City People’s Committee Nguyen Van Hong assigned the Department of Industry and Trade, the Management Board of Can Tho Industrial and Export Processing Zones, and the People’s Committees of districts to immediately notify the Enterprise about the encourage the reopening of production and business activities and send back the operation plan to the competent authority for consideration and support. At the same time, set up working groups so that when businesses send their plans, they will appraise them immediately to support and appraise them so that they can reopen their operations soon when they are eligible.
Researching appropriate directions to ensure safety against epidemics for businesses that propose the option of a multi-destination route for those who have had 2 or 1 vaccine injections, combined with the organization of “3 at place” with unvaccinated citizens. Particularly, the Department of Health quickly issued epidemic prevention plans to ensure safety when reopening production and business activities.
Despite many difficulties due to the epidemic, the first 6 months of 2021 Westfood still achieved a revenue of 164.6 billion VND, equivalent to 111% compared to the same period in 2020; pre-tax profit reached over VND 19.6 billion, equivalent to 180% over the same period in 2020.
