'Did It Work?': Promoting Vermont Food Products In Japan




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Summary: In 2015, Vermont's Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets secured $25,000 from a federal grant to help fund a trade mission to Japan. Leaders of eight small food producers, along with a few government employees, headed to Tokyo for four days in October 2016. The goal was to drum up new business in an international market. So, a few years later, have those companies made sales to Japan?