TTC Group chairman to sell his stakes in sugar subsidiary

Phuong Dong Friday | 04/08/2022 09:09

TTC Group chairman Dang Van Thanh. Photo courtesy of the company

Dang Van Thanh, chairman of conglomerate TTC Group, has registered to sell his 10 million shares in subsidiary TTC Sugar, Vietnam’s largest sugar company.

The disinvestment, set to take place between next week and mid-May, is expected to fetch VND240 billion ($10.5 million) on the basis of the company’s share price Thursday morning.

TTC Sugar’s shares have rised by 20 percent since the beginning of this year to VND24,000.

Though Thanh will sell his personal stakes, TTC Group and his family still own 51.92 percent of the sugar giant. His wife, Huynh Bich Ngoc, owns 10.71 percent, and his daughter, Dang Huynh Uc My, owns 15.39 percent.

TTC Sugar accounted for 46 percent of the Vietnamese sugar market last year with revenues of VND14.93 trillion.

It eyes VND16.9 trillion in revenues and VND750 billion in pre-tax profits this year.

Source: VnExpress