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Exporter Success Stories

Proven Paths to Export Success: Food Export Success Stories • Program Highlights • Real Successes • Their Export Journey • Delivering Global Impact

We have over 1,000 active suppliers participating in our programs who are finding success internationally by generating new export sales, establishing new distributorships, expanding their production facilities, and hiring additional employees. Read a few of Food Export’s recent supplier highlights.

 

Michigan Hardwood Supplier Finds Export Success

Michigan Hardwood Supplier Finds Export Success

White Pigeon, Michigan–based Banks Hardwoods is carving out new opportunities in global markets, leveraging Food Export–Midwest’s Branded Program to boost brand awareness and sales abroad.
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Pocas International Expands Global Reach with Multi-Million Dollar Export Growth

Pocas International Expands Global Reach with Multi-Million Dollar Export Growth

Since 2019, South Hackensack, New Jersey-based Pocas International Corporation has leveraged Food Export–Northeast programs to strengthen its global presence and boost export sales.
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Ohio Supplier Expands Pet Food Exports Through International Trade

Ohio Supplier Expands Pet Food Exports Through International Trade

Since joining Food Export programs in 2009, the Ohio-based company has grown its international reach, securing millions in sales, dozens of new distributorships, and entry into new markets—including first-time sales to Germany.
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Food Export Support Helps Ellio’s Pizza Break into Mexico 

Food Export Support Helps Ellio’s Pizza Break into Mexico 

With support from Food Export–Northeast’s Branded Program, New Jersey-based G.A. Productions—maker of the iconic Ellio’s Pizza—entered the Mexican market for the first time, securing over $450,000 in sales.
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Bringing Sweetness Abroad: Iowa Brand Expands into Germany

Bringing Sweetness Abroad: Iowa Brand Expands into Germany

Des Moines-based Sunday Night® Foods is taking its award-winning dessert sauces global with support from Food Export.
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Ten-Year Participant Still Growing Cheese Export Sales

Ten-Year Participant Still Growing Cheese Export Sales

Orange Cheese Company, based in Woodbridge, Connecticut, has been leveraging Food Export–Northeast programs since 2014 to expand its international presence and grow export sales.
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Fourteen Years Strong: Growing Global Sales for Food Ingredients

Fourteen Years Strong: Growing Global Sales for Food Ingredients

This North Dakota supplier has participated in Food Export’s Branded Program for fourteen years, using the support to expand its international market share for food ingredient products.
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Buyers Mission at American Royal BBQ Grows Exports for Illinois Supplier

Buyers Mission at American Royal BBQ Grows Exports for Illinois Supplier

Export sales gained by a long-term participant at Food Export's inaugural Buyers Mission at the American Royal BBQ.
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First-Time Sale to Japan for Wisconsin Made Lip Balm

First-Time Sale to Japan for Wisconsin Made Lip Balm

“The Food Export Branded Program has been instrumental in helping our U.S.-based manufacturing business take its first steps into exporting."
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