Sun Group (Vietnam)

Sun Group Corporation
Sun Group
Native name
Công ty cổ phần Tập đoàn Mặt trời
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)
SubsidiariesSun PhuQuoc Airways
Websitehttps://sungroup.com.vn/

Sun Group Corp (Vietnamese: CTCP Tập đoàn Mặt trời, lit. 'Sun Group JSC') 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:

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. ↑ "Sun World Fansipan Legend – About Us". Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  9. ↑ "Aquatopia Water Park in Phu Quoc wins the Asia's Leading Water Park 2021".
  10. ↑ Coates, Charlotte (22 December 2022). "ECA2 brings new multimedia spectacular to Vietnam". Blooloop.
  11. ↑ Greatest elevation difference by a non-stop three-roped cable car Guinness World Records.
  12. ↑ "How Sun Group has turned neglected hills into tourism hotspot | E.TheLEADER". e.theleader.vn. April 19, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Vietnam's first privately owned airport opens for business". Nikkei Asia.