Sun Group (Vietnam)

Tập đoàn Sun Group
Company typeConglomerate
IndustryReal estate, tourism
Founded2007[1] in Vietnam
FounderLê Viết Lam
Headquarters,
Area served
Vietnam, Ukraine
Key people
Lê Viết Lam (Chairman)
Number of employees
4,000 (2015)
Websitesungroupcorp.com

Sun Group is one of the largest real estate developers in Vietnam.[2] Its main activities are the development of holiday resorts, attraction parks and luxury real estate.[3]

Sun Group was founded in 2007[4] by four Vietnamese who lived in the former Soviet Union. One of them being Lê Viết Lam, who was a business partner of Vingroup's founder - Phạm Nhật Vượng - in the Technocom instant noodle business they set up in Kharkiv, Ukraine.[5][6] After establishing a supermarket, hotel and water park in Kharkiv, in 2007, Lam went back to Vietnam to build Sun Group's first Vietnamese theme park, Ba Na Hills.[7]

Sun World

Sun World is the entertainment brand of Sun Group and includes 7 different entertainment destinations:

  • Sun World Ba Na Hills
  • Da Nang Downtown (former Da Nang Wonders, former Asia Park)
  • Sun World Fansipan Legend
  • Sun World Halong Complex
  • Sun World Hon Thom Nature Park
    • Aquatopia Water Park [8]
    • Exotica Village
    • Kiss The Stars Show [9]
  • Sun World BaDen Mountain [vi]
  • Sun World CatBa Cable Car

Notable projects

See also

References

  1. ^ "Đại gia Lê Viết Lam là ai?". baomoi.com. 7 September 2015.
  2. ^ "$458 million for Sun Group's new Phu Quoc project - News VietNamNet". english.vietnamnet.vn. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  3. ^ "Sun Group adds new masterpiece to Vietnam's Phu Quoc Island". VnExpress.
  4. ^ Ha-Minh, Cuong; Dao, Dong Van; Benboudjema, Farid; Derrible, Sybil; Huynh, Dat Vu Khoa; Tang, Anh Minh (2019-10-10). CIGOS 2019, Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering Works and Structures. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-981-15-0802-8.
  5. ^ Tư, Báo Điện tử Nhà Đầu (May 2017). "Lê Viết Lam - Từ chàng sinh viên nghèo đến vị tỷ phú đô la 'ẩn mình'".
  6. ^ Hayton, Bill (2020-11-24). Vietnam: Rising Dragon, New Edition. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-24963-7.
  7. ^ "Lê Viết Lam - Từ chàng sinh viên nghèo đến vị tỷ phú đô la 'ẩn mình'". nhadautu.vn (in Vietnamese). 2017-05-01. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  8. ^ "Aquatopia Water Park in Phu Quoc wins the Asia's Leading Water Park 2021".
  9. ^ a b Coates, Charlotte (22 December 2022). "ECA2 brings new multimedia spectacular to Vietnam". Blooloop.
  10. ^ Greatest elevation difference by a non-stop three-roped cable car Guinness World Records.
  11. ^ "How Sun Group has turned neglected hills into tourism hotspot | E.TheLEADER". e.theleader.vn. April 19, 2019.
  12. ^ "Vietnam's first privately owned airport opens for business". Nikkei Asia.