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State urged to ramp up exports?

Published: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
By Angela CarterRegister Staff

MIDDLETOWN — U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary Dennis F. Hightower Monday appealed for state businesses to join new efforts to boost American exports and thereby create jobs.

Hightower and members of the new Export Promotion Cabinet met business leaders at the Export Assistance Center, and next week they will fan out across the country explaining the National Export Initiative, which President Barack Obama launched by executive order March 11.      [More]








Hartford area grocers stock products
 targeting West Indians
By Jason Millman
jmillman@HartfordBusiness.com
09/22/08

Looking to capitalize on the demand from Hartford’s extensive West Indian population, several mainstream grocery stores in the area have started to feature more Jamaican products on their shelves.           [More]

Diaspora group seeks to increase Jamaican products take-up of shelf space
Ingrid Brown, Senior Business Observer reporter
browni@jamaicaobserver.com
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The Caribbean Trade Council (CTC), an economic initiative out of Hartford, Connecticut in the United States, said it has been getting major supermarket chains and other businesses in that city to designate shelf space, and entire aisles in some cases, for products manufactured in Jamaica.                                              [More]
 

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