HCM CITY — The HCM City Books Distributor Joint-stock Company imported books and other publications worth US$7 million last year.

Fahasa, as the company is known, organised several exhibitions of foreign books together with foreign publishers like Sterling and Pearson, CEO Pham Minh Thuan said yesterday.

The company had sales of VND1.42trillion (US$68.1 million), an increase of 14 per cent over 2010.

Fahasa has 58 bookshops in 30 provinces and cities, and hires 2,200 employees. — VNS