Aeon starts building Cambodia mall
Japanese mall operator Aeon Co. broke ground Monday on Cambodia’s first foreign-financed mall. “We are happy to contribute to the development of the local economy because it will create more than 2,000 jobs and we want to stay deeply rooted in Cambodia and we want to be ‘loved the most’,” senior Aeon executive Motoya Okada said at the ground-breaking ceremony in the capital, Phnom Penh. The mall is to scheduled to open in 2014, which will make Aeon the first Japanese retailer to make a foray into Cambodia. …
