Madame Nguyễn Thị Nga Attends and Delivers Remarks at the Roundtable with Canada’s Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu

HANOI, February 11 — On the occasion of the official visit to Vietnam by the Honourable Maninder Sidhu, Canada’s Minister of International Trade, Madame Nguyễn Thị Nga, Chairwoman of BRG Group, joined a high-level roundtable with leading agriculture and food sector enterprises, delivering strategic and practitioner-informed perspectives on advancing bilateral trade cooperation between the two business communities.

The session served as a platform for Minister Sidhu to engage in a direct dialogue with prominent Vietnamese enterprises on opportunities and challenges in promoting agricultural and food trade between Canada and Vietnam.

Discussions centred on actionable measures to elevate bilateral trade turnover, with particular attention to areas where Canada’s development cooperation frameworks can support enterprises from both countries in scaling investment and operations along sustainable trajectories.

Strategic Proposals for Sustainable Trade Expansion

Speaking at the roundtable, Madame Nguyễn Thị Nga underscored the significant potential for premium Canadian agricultural and food products in Vietnam. Against a backdrop of persistent global economic volatility, she identified export market diversification and reinforcement as critical levers for enhancing enterprise adaptability, fortifying resilience, and advancing long-term sustainable growth for businesses on both sides.

Roundtable Between Leading Vietnamese Enterprises and Minister Maninder Sidhu.

The Chairwoman further called for intensified bilateral trade promotion programs, deeper enterprise connectivity, and more robust product branding efforts. She noted that BRG Group’s BRGMart and FujiMart supermarket chains, together with its portfolio of restaurants and hotels, are actively introducing and distributing agricultural and food products directly sourced from Canada to Vietnamese consumers.

Drawing on firsthand commercial experience, Madame Nguyễn Thị Nga commended the quality of Canadian products, particularly beef, whose rich flavor and premium positioning have gained strong traction among customers. At the same time, she suggested that additional supportive mechanisms be explored to enhance price accessibility for the Vietnamese market.

In a forward-looking proposal, she urged the two sides to study the launch of regular direct commercial flights between Vietnam and Canada, a move that would streamline cargo logistics, facilitate trade flows, and deepen cross-border business collaboration.

Minister Maninder Sidhu spoke favourably of the steadily deepening partnership between Canada and Vietnam, acknowledging the constructive role of leading enterprises like BRG Group in shaping sustainable, innovation-driven agricultural and food value chains.

He expressed appreciation for the candid, solution-oriented feedback from the Vietnamese business community, specifically citing the practical and substantive proposals advanced by Madame Nguyễn Thị Nga.

Madame Nguyễn Thị Nga is pictured with The Honourable Maninder Sidhu, Canada’s Minister of International Trade (left), and His Excellency Jim Nickel, Ambassador of Canada to Vietnam (right).

With more than three decades of development, BRG Group has forged enduring partnerships with numerous globally recognised brands, consolidating its standing in distribution, retail, and the development of food supply chains aligned with international standards.

Madame Nguyễn Thị Nga’s presence and remarks at the roundtable with Canada’s Minister of International Trade reaffirm BRG Group’s pioneering role in Vietnam’s international economic integration. They also underscore the Group’s commitment as a model corporate citizen, proactively partnering with the Government to advance bilateral economic cooperation between Vietnam and countries worldwide, and contributing meaningfully to the sustainable development of the national economy.