President Watchai Vilailuck said yesterday that a clearer plan for the energy-project investment programme would be seen in March.

The group’s Samart U-Trans subsidiary is involved in energy, utilities and transport business.

Teerachai Phongpanangam, managing director of Samart U-Trans, said the company planned to seek a listing in the stock market within the next two years, by which time its revenue is targeted to reach Bt10 billion.

Revenue of Bt5 billion is estimated for this year.

Samart Corp has around 20 subsidiaries, of which four are listed: Samart itself, Samart Telcoms, Samart i-Mobile and One To One.

The group has a consolidated-revenue target this year of Bt24.1 billion.

The ICT solution-provision business led by Samart Telcoms will account for Bt10 billion, handset and multimedia content sales led by Samart i-Mobile for another Bt7 billion, Samart U-Trans for a further Bt5 billion, and related businesses for the remaining Bt2.1 billion.

Chakkrit Charuchinda, the new chief executive officer of Samart i-Mobile, said his company had diversified into e-market place operations and tourist-assistance service provision.

It will also launch 3G cellular service under a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) deal granted by CAT Telecom, with the service using the Open brand.

Samart i-Mobile will also launch an Alibaba-style e-commerce website, following on from the recent launch of its wappwapp.com e-commerce site.

Chakkrit, 58, moved to Samart from PTT Retail Management, where he was managing director.

Of Samart i-Mobile’s Bt7 billion revenue target for the year, Bt5.5 billion will be generated from an estimated 2 million handset sales.

Samart Telcoms targets landing additional projects worth at least Bt15 billion this year, out of an expected Bt25 billion-worth of new projects available for bidding.