September 2017 Board Book

affect the production of organic ice cream, butter, sour cream, cottage cheese or organic milk. CMAB Trade Mission – Taiwan and Japan The CMAB hosts occasional Trade Missions in an effort to introduce California dairy processors to the companies, markets and cultures of the 9 Asian countries we are working with to establish products made from Real California Milk. This Trade Mission was to Taiwan and Japan and included the following dairy processor companies: CDI – (Butter & Cream Cheese)

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Helados La Tapatia – (Ice Cream Novelties) Ninth Avenue Foods – Rockview (ESL Milk) Rizo Lopez – (Cheese, Drinkable Yogurt) Pacific Cheese – (Cheese) King Cheese – (Snacking Cheese w/Meat) Coolhaus – (Pint Premium Ice Cream)

Booth in the Food and Hotel Taiwan Show

Group photo of CMAB Trade Mission and Retailers Visited

Taiwan The mission started with a briefing on the Taiwan marketplace by the Agricultural Trade Office (ATO). Taiwan is the USA’s 7 th largest agricultural trading partner. We then toured several supermarkets to show the processors what sizes and types of products they need to offer. The next three days were spent on highly organized specific one-on-one meetings with buyers from supermarkets and distributors from key foodservice operators serving hotels, restaurants and institutions. There were several significant deals put together from almost every category, so processors are very busy following up to finalize new business opportunities to ship their products made from 100% Real California Milk. The CMAB has made it much easier for processors to participate internationally by providing them with a consolidation company (Harbyrco), that finalizes their transactions here in the USA and handles all of the paperwork.