In 2009, Select Soy, LLC, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the 3rd Congressional District, was featured in the June/July issue of Food Export-Midwest and Food Export-Northeasts international U.S. Foodlink newsletter. As a result, a distributor from Belgium contacted the company about their dry roasted soy nuts. According to Peter Assaly, Vice President of Select Soy, LLC, This is a great way to get exposure for your product with overseas buyers and distributors. The distributor from Belgium saw our product in U.S. Foodlink and called us right away. By October, we completed our first-time export sale to the country valued at $6,300. We are hopeful that the distributor will place future orders once he tests our product in the Belgium market.

Select Soy, LLC is an organic dry roasted soynut manufacturer and distributor of packaged all-natural dry roasted soynuts under the Natures Select brand.

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.