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Industry Compliance Guidelines,New energy

What Permits Are Required to Open a Restaurant in Vietnam in 2026? Start with the Business Model, Operating Entity, and Site Conditions

The compliance pathway for opening a food and beverage business in Vietnam in 2026 is in a period of transition. This article explains the key considerations for restaurants, takeaway shops, and central kitchens across four dimensions: store format, operating entity, site conditions, and food safety. It helps foreign-invested businesses clarify the order of actions before site selection and renovation, reducing the risk of costly rectification.

Industry Compliance Guidelines,New energy

After Vietnam Capacity Stabilizes, Do New Energy Companies Still Need to Build a Factory in the UAE?

For cross-border e-commerce in Vietnam, local teams should not use one employment contract and management system for customer service, operations, and warehousing roles. Customer service faces consumers, so the focus is service continuity and data access control. Operations faces platform back ends and order systems, so the focus is operating cadence, permission handover, and fulfillment coordination. Warehousing faces the fulfillment floor, so the focus is staffing flexibility and cost control. Using a three-step decision framework, this article analyzes when long-term employment, fixed-term contracts, EOR, labor outsourcing, or external support are most appropriate for each role category, helping HR and operations leaders define role allocation and employment pathways before entering Vietnam.

Factory layout path,Site selection and factory establishment

How Should Cross-Border E-Commerce Companies Build Local Teams in Vietnam: Which Staffing Models Work Best for Customer Service, Operations, and Warehousing?

Factory layout path,Site selection and factory establishment

In 2026, How Should Solar Companies Decide Whether Vietnam Is the Right First Overseas Market?

Before entering Vietnam, solar companies should first determine whether Vietnam is a sales market, a project-delivery location, or a local operating base. This article examines module exports, rooftop solar, DPPA, FCT, company incorporation, and trade-remedy risks to help companies assess whether Vietnam is suitable as a first overseas market.

Factory layout path,Site selection and factory establishment

Entering Vietnam for New Energy Companies: Validate the Market First, or Register a Company First?

Entering Vietnam’s new energy market does not necessarily require setting up a local company on day one. This article looks at customer orders, contracting entities, payment pathways, Foreign Contractor Tax (FCT), installation and commissioning, grid-connection coordination, and local after-sales support to explain when market validation can come first and when a Vietnam entity should be established.

Factory layout path,Site selection and factory establishment

How to Advance a Manufacturing Plant Setup in Vietnam: Review Market Entry, Industrial Park Routes, and Responsibility Allocation Before Choosing a Site

A factory setup in Vietnam should not begin with land-hunting. The real starting point is to determine whether the business is open to foreign investment, whether the project should follow an approval route or a lease-first route, who will bear land and environmental responsibilities, and which functions the manufacturing entity will undertake. Site selection must be built on validated market-entry and implementation routes; otherwise, the project can easily stall or require rework later.

Employment compliance,Industry Compliance Guidelines,Trade Distribution

How to Build the First Vietnam Distribution Team: Why Sales, Commercial Operations, After-Sales, and Compliance Should Not Be Combined into One Role

At the early stage of Vietnam trade and distribution, the most common mistake is not whom to hire first, but collapsing sales, commercial operations, after-sales, and compliance into one role. This article focuses on role separation, authority boundaries, and expatriate staffing so companies can get the organisational backbone right from the start.

Company establishment,Registration and Architecture

Vietnam Manufacturing Tax Compliance: Why Customs Issues Often Surface Before CIT

At the early stage of a Vietnam factory project, the first tax issues usually arise not in CIT but in customs valuation and origin, because they affect dutiable value, preferential tariffs, import VAT, filing documents, and customs-clearance arrangements much earlier.

Company establishment,Registration and Architecture

Before Setting Up a Company in Vietnam, First Align Business Scope with Entity Function

When setting up a company in Vietnam, business scope cannot be determined in isolation from entity function. Business scope defines which activities the entity is legally prepared to carry out, while entity function defines the role that entity is expected to play in the operating structure. If the two are not aligned before setup, misalignment is more likely to appear later in contracting, collections, delivery, licensing, and team management – and these issues usually become visible only after operations begin to scale.

Cross-border e-commerce,Legal compliance

Why Your Entity Structure Must Be Aligned Before Launching Marketplace E-Commerce in Vietnam

When companies enter Vietnam through marketplace e-commerce, tax risk often surfaces first in the entity structure. From a practical local-execution perspective, this article examines the relationship among the store entity, collection entity, goods-risk entity, supporting documentation, and filing responsibility. It outlines four common misalignment scenarios, five diagnostic lines, and governance pathways to help companies align structure, document flows, and accountability before local launch begins.

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What Permits Are Required to Open a Restaurant in Vietnam in 2026? Start with the Business Model, Operating Entity, and Site Conditions

After Vietnam Capacity Stabilizes, Do New Energy Companies Still Need to Build a Factory in the UAE?

How Should Cross-Border E-Commerce Companies Build Local Teams in Vietnam: Which Staffing Models Work Best for Customer Service, Operations, and Warehousing?

In 2026, How Should Solar Companies Decide Whether Vietnam Is the Right First Overseas Market?

Entering Vietnam for New Energy Companies: Validate the Market First, or Register a Company First?

How to Advance a Manufacturing Plant Setup in Vietnam: Review Market Entry, Industrial Park Routes, and Responsibility Allocation Before Choosing a Site

How to Build the First Vietnam Distribution Team: Why Sales, Commercial Operations, After-Sales, and Compliance Should Not Be Combined into One Role

Vietnam Manufacturing Tax Compliance: Why Customs Issues Often Surface Before CIT

Before Setting Up a Company in Vietnam, First Align Business Scope with Entity Function

Why Your Entity Structure Must Be Aligned Before Launching Marketplace E-Commerce in Vietnam

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