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DelGrosso Foods, located in Tipton, Pennsylvania, in the 9th Congressional District, participated in the Food Export-Midwest-sponsored Food and Hotel Asia Food Show PLUS!™ tradeshow enhancement services in April 2008. According to Michael DelGrosso, Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, "By participating in the Food and Hotel Asia Food Show PLUS!™, we solidified a deal with a large food distributor in Southeast Asia to produce private label pasta sauce for the company. The orders started by the end of 2008 to their warehouse in Singapore, tripling our business to that country. In 2009, our sales to this account were more than $50,000 and are projected to be the same in 2010." Since the initial sale in 2008, the new incremental business has added to the company’s strategic priorities, making export a growing part of their business.
DelGrosso Foods has been producing all-natural pasta sauce for grocery sale for more than
60 years.
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.
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