Formation | 1969 [1] |
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Executive Director | Brendan Wilson |
Website | https://www.foodexport.org/ |
Food Export Association of the Midwest USA (Food Export-Midwest) is a non-profit organization that promotes the export of food and agricultural products from the Midwestern region of the United States. The organization has been helping U.S. suppliers of Midwestern food and agricultural products sell overseas since 1969.
Food Export - Midwest is one of four State Regional Trade Groups (SRTGs) that assist companies with export promotion. Three other regional groups, Food Export USA-Northeast (Food Export - Northeast), Southern United States Trade Association (SUSTA), and Western U.S. Agricultural Trade Association (WUSATA) [2] provide similar services for companies based or sourcing product from outside of the Food Export-Midwest thirteen-state region.
Founded in 1969, Food Export – Midwest was created as a cooperative effort between 13 Midwestern state agricultural promotion agencies United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). Those states are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Food Export - Midwest is one of several organizations that administer its programs each year through Market Access Program funding. [3] Through the Market Access Program (MAP), The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) "partners with U.S. agricultural trade associations, cooperatives, state regional trade groups and small businesses to share the costs of overseas marketing and promotional activities that help build commercial export markets for U.S. agricultural products and commodities." [4]
In April 2000, Food Export – Midwest entered into a strategic alliance with Food Export – Northeast. Both organizations thereafter collaborated on activities, markets, programs and services to greatly expand the available resources for U.S. companies in their regions.
Food Export – Midwest offers a variety of programs and services to help exporters of Midwestern food and agricultural products begin or expand their international sales. Food Export – Midwest's export strategy includes three primary components: Exporter Education, Market Entry and Market Promotion. The objective for these programs is to provide U.S. exporters resources to pursue the export market for their food and agricultural products. Food Export-Midwest programs and services are designed to educate U.S. suppliers about exporting, find new customers and increase their volume of export sales.
Food Export - Midwest provides valuable educational services to U.S. Suppliers who export food and agriculture products. Entering the export market takes know-how. Exporter Education programs provide information and education in a variety of formats to help companies increase their exporter knowledge.
Food Export – Midwest provides a variety of Market Entry activities to help companies of all levels of exporting experience increase their global reach.