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affect the production of organic ice cream, butter, sour cream, cottage cheese or organic
milk.
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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)
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.