While attending the 2008 Northeast Buyers Mission, Hampton Popcorn, located in New York, New York, landed two new sales in Canada, increasing their sales approximately 34 percent in 2008. The company is also in negotiations with the Netherlands and Santa Domingo as a result of new contacts made at the Northeast Buyers Mission. According to Arthur Kerr, Vice President and Director of Global Sales for Hampton Popcorn, “These sales give us a 60 percent market share for gourmet popcorn in the Canadian market. The Branded Program also helped us with bilingual labeling changes for Canada, point-of-sale materials, and in-store promotions. Sixty percent of our business now is in exports and we expect this to increase. We have more international shipments going out than domestic sales.”

Hampton Popcorn, founded by two guys from The Hamptons, produces delicious gourmet popcorn snacks that satisfy the most discriminating tastes. The New York company differentiates their product from the rest through high quality, kosher, savory toppings like chocolate, caramel, and peanut butter. Hampton Popcorn also offers a full line of cheese and kettle corn products.

Food Export-Midwest and Food Export-Northeast are private, non-profit associations of Midwestern and Northeastern state agricultural promotion agencies that use federal, state, and industry resources to promote the export of Midwestern and Northeastern food and agricultural products. Food Export-Midwest and Food Export-Northeast administer many services through Market Access Program (MAP) funding from the USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service.