Nguyễn Trung Dũng

The entrepreneurial journey and building Dh Foods

Nguyễn Trung Dũng is Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Dh Foods Joint Stock Company. Before returning to Vietnam, he spent around 30 years studying, living and doing business in Europe, with several entrepreneurial ventures in Poland. He earned a master's degree in Information Technology in Poland and held a leadership position at VIFON before beginning his journey with Dh Foods.

In late 2012, he founded Dh Foods with the desire to turn Vietnam's regional specialty flavors into convenient, safe products capable of entering international markets. More than a decade later, the brand has developed 6 product lines with over 100 items and a presence in more than 15 countries and territories. According to figures published on Dh Foods' introduction page, cross-checked on September 26, 2026, its products are available in more than 62,000 grocery stores and over 8,700 supermarkets and convenience stores.

What stands out in Nguyễn Trung Dũng's journey is not only building a Vietnamese seasoning brand. He frequently shares sound decisions, failures and lessons about capital, distribution, factory construction, exports, team management and how a small business gradually builds a system. Dh Foods also builds its corporate culture around the idea “Work should be enjoyable” and a management approach that does not put KPIs at the center.

Potential connection value

With multiple entrepreneurial experiences in Vietnam and Europe, and direct experience building Dh Foods from its early stages into an extensive distribution system with international exports, Nguyễn Trung Dũng is a suitable connection for founders, businesses and people building Vietnamese brands.

Valuable topics for connection, discussion and sharing include:

• Starting and building a business with limited resources
• Building Vietnamese consumer product brands
• Developing traditional trade (GT), modern trade (MT) distribution systems and sales channels
• Bringing Vietnamese products to international markets
• Building teams and corporate culture, and retaining talent
• Experience from investment and expansion decisions, and costly business lessons
• Connecting the ecosystem of entrepreneurs, startups and the younger entrepreneurial generation

Dh Foods currently publicly offers several business partnership directions, including supply for restaurants, hotels, factories and OEM, corporate gifts, export partnerships, online and offline distributors and agents, and supermarket chains. You can explore these opportunities on Dh Foods website.

Business philosophy

A distinctive aspect of how Nguyễn Trung Dũng builds Dh Foods is his choice of long-term development based on product quality, people and trust. In accounts of building the early team, he has described allocating equity to colleagues who joined when the business had few resources, before the company moved to a joint-stock structure.

Dh Foods' broader ambition is to help bring Vietnamese seasonings and culinary identity to kitchens around the world. Its products have reached markets such as Japan, South Korea and Europe, including a presence in some international retail chains.