European firms tout Hong Kong as springboard for expansion into mainland China, Asia
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Italian-owned food importer and distributor Bright View and French fintech firm Libertify are using Hong Kong as a springboard to reach opportunities in mainland China, elsewhere in Asia and further abroad, with the help of InvestHK, a government agency tasked with attracting foreign investment.
'Hong Kong has always been and still is a market that all the producers are interested in to be here,' said Michele Bernacchia, the general manager of Bright View, which imports and distributes cheese, cold cuts, pastries, pasta, rice and fresh vegetables. The company is a unit of Italy's Inalca Food & Beverage, which first started working with InvestHK in 2015 and acquired local firm Bright View Trading in 2017.
Now, with confidence in the development of Hong Kong and the
Greater Bay Area , the company has set up offices in Macau and Zhongshan, a city in China's southern Guangdong province. It also has operations in Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu.
The Greater Bay Area combines Hong Kong, Macau and nine cities in Guangdong into a market with a population of more than 87 million.
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'We are very excited about this because we think that in the south of China there are a lot of opportunities,' Bernacchia said.
The company was eyeing Shenzhen as its next target city for expansion, he said.
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