Next gen steers Vietnam’s US$1 billion sugar empire to go global – starting with three-person Singapore office

Inside Asia’s family empires: How they are transforming to seize the next stage of growth

[HO CHI MINH CITY] Far from the cane fields that built her family’s fortune, Dang Huynh Uc My, or Omi Dang, set up a modest three-person office in Singapore to plot an unlikely overseas push for Vietnam’s sugar giant AgriS. It would prove to be a sweet spot.

Fifteen years on, that tentative outpost has become the nerve centre of AgriS’ international expansion – a strategy that helped transform a domestic sugar champion into a group with more than US$1 billion in annual revenue and exports to nearly 80 countries.