PW Montgomery, LLC, with locations in Fargo, North Dakota, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota in Congressional District 7, and Greeley, Colorado, attended the Food Export-Northeast-sponsored 2009 Focused Trade Mission to the Caribbean for Food Service Products and made a first-time export sale to Jamaica. According to Paul Montgomery, consultant/sales representative, “The trade mission was very well organized and just the right size. We met one-on-one with eight pre-qualified buyers and walked away with some very strong sales leads. In fact, one of the buyers contacted us after the event, which lead to a first-time export sale of one container with further sales pending.”

PW Montgomery exports a wide variety of U.S. beans, including: pinto, black, dark and light red kidney, great northern, pink, small red, cranberry, navy bean, lentils, green and yellow peas, and great northern beans.

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.