Several members of the Vincentian business community were given the opportunity to showcase their products and services at a recent regional exposition – which was attended by Invest SVG.
Invest SVG Export Development Manager Peter Edward attended HUB Camara Santo Domingo 2018 – which had an attendance of over 5,000 persons – and said that he was exceptionally pleased by the response to the Vincentian owned and produced items that he took with him to the Dominican Republic.
“Given our size, many of the buyers that I met with had never had any business connections with St. Vincent and the Grenadines before. So, they were quite excited by the high quality of our displayed products, and the prospect of doing business with us,” explained Edward.
During his attendance at the expo, which ran from March 5 – 10, the Export Development manager promoted products from Aurora’s (Alita Garraway), Red Bikini Rum Punch (Natalie Cato), Olive Art Designs (Christal Oliver), Island Gems composite flour (Kaynella Nichols), Vincentian Chocolate, Grenadines Sea Salt (Jerry Simpson), Peta Odini (Odini Sutherland), Jazzy’s All Natural (Jasmin Deane), Valkelly (Kay-Dawn Fergusson), and Lacoda Bath and Sparkles (Alithea Gibson).
Edward also participated in B2B meetings facilitated by Caribbean Export Development Agency and individually organized with buyers from the Dominican Republic, Belize, Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Barbados and Trinidad; and is currently following up with several of these buyers.
