Central Retail Viet Nam on Friday launched its GO! Mall on Urban Sub-area 13, Tran Hung Dao Street, Bac Lenh Ward, Lao Cai City.

It is its 39th shopping centre in Viet Nam, but the first of its kind in the northwest area. The opening of GO! Lao Cai comes as the company celebrates its 10th anniversary in Viet Nam.

Built on a total area of 30,000sq.m with an investment of VND300 billion (US$12.9 million), GO! Lao Cai is the largest and most modern shopping mall of Central Retail in Lao Cai.

The mall is expected to provide a wide range of products from essential goods, and fast-moving consumer goods to household electrical appliances and entertainment services to meet local demands, from basic to high standards.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Olivier Langlet, General Director of Central Retail Viet Nam, hoped that the presence of GO! Lao Cai can bring convenience to local people's lives, enhancing their shopping experience.

"The GO! Mall offers shopping, dining, and entertainment in one destination. Our concept is an 'Eat-Shop-Play-Learn-Sustain' model, built to accommodate all customers’ diversified needs, with a focus on families," the manager said.

GO! Lao Cai not only contributes to the local socio-economic development by creating nearly 400 job opportunities for local people, developing trade and retail services, and purchasing local agricultural products but also commits to contributing to the local community, through educational support and social activities.

At the event, Trinh Xuan Truong, Deputy Secretary of Party Committee, Chairman of People's Committee of Lao Cai Province, said that GO! Lao Cai is considered one of the key shopping malls with foreign investment of the province and will be a good commodity distribution channel, connecting local products, specialty products and OCOP products to domestic and oversea consumers.

The province is deploying many important projects, expanding plans, investing in transport infrastructures to attract investments to develop a border economic zone, logistic areas, industrial parks, urban areas and complex shopping malls.

Therefore the province hoped the company will consider the opening of a shopping centre in the north Lao Cai, which is very favourable for trade development, said

On the occasion, the Thailand-based Central Retail said it donated VND1 billion to build a new school site for the La Pan Tan Primary School in the province. — VNS