Vietnam's FPT seeks partial sales retail and distribution units   A piece of debris found by a South African family off the Mozambique coast in December 2015, which authorities will examine to see if it is from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, is pictured in this handout photo released to Reuters March 11, 2016. Vietnamese technology firm FPT plans to sell parts of its profitable retail and distribution units this year to focus on its core businesses, the company said on Wednesday. As of February, FPT owned 85 percent of FPT Retail and 100 percent of FPT Trading, its distribution unit, FPT said in an email responding to Reuters questions on Wednesday. The sections accounted for a quarter of FPT's profit last year. Technology retail businesses like FPT and rival Mobile World Investment Corp, whose net income soared 60 percent last year, have been benefiting from Vietnam's tech-savvy 90-million population. The number of mobile phone subscribers in Vietnam grew 26 percent to 124 million during 2009-2013, latest data from the government showed. FPT was Apple's sole distributor in Vietnam until late last year and its retail flagship store chain, FPT Shop, reported a 335 percent jump in annual net profit in 2015 with 252 stores after four years in operation, the company said. FPT declined to disclose the amount of shares it plans to offload or the value of the units. FPT Trading, which also operates in Cambodia, Myanmar and Nigeria, has 680 billion dong ($30.4 million) in registered capital while FPT Retail has 200 billion dong. FPT wants to focus on its core businesses, information technology and telecommunication, which accounted for 70 percent of profit last year, and to find investors with financial expertise and international business and management experiences to boost performance in retail and distribution. The firm said it has signed an advisory contract with Japan's Nomura Securities and local Viet Capital Securities to carry out the deal. Reuters