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Launched as a fun concept for a Machel Monday concert, Machel Montano chocolates are now set to find a place in the international market when the new Montanos Chocolate Company factory is completed.
The factory, says Elizabeth Montano, the matriarch of the Montano clan, will allow the company to build capacity as they focus on exports.
“We have been involved with ExportTT going to missions to push our product. We went to Germany, South Korea and Colombia and we were supposed to go to more countries but the pandemic came so we met with Panama, Chile and Atlanta virtually. Right now we are exporting to Canada and I have built a really good relationship with Latin American companies and we have signed up with a distributor who is trying to get us into Argentina,” she told Loop News.
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Four local manufacturers are the latest recipients of grant funding totaling
$789,061.13 from the Grant Fund Facility (GFF) administered by the Ministry of Trade and Industry through exporTT Limited.
During a recent Webinar hosted by the Ministry of Trade and Industry themed “Growing a Manufacturing Business for Export”, Senator the Honourable Paula Gopee-Scoon, Minister of Trade and Industry underscored the Government’s commitment to enhancing access to finance, building capacity of manufacturers and promoting locally grown products on the international market. She added that “
the funding accessed by these local manufacturers will assist in the acquisition of new machinery, equipment and expansion projects and in so doing, provide an opportunity to improve their productivity and competitiveness, create more innovative and high-value products, increase exports and penetrate extra-regional markets.”