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Penetrating the Canadian Market

November 19th, 2008 at 02:09pm Bob Trojan

I recently made contact with the State of Illinois Office of Trade and Investment to see if they could assist me in finding distributors in Canada.  Anyone thinking of this as a market, should read further.

After an earlier e-mail exchange with the Chicago office, I received a telephone call from two IL/Canada representatives, one of whom is a former Rockfordian, Jeffrey Johnson.  He attended West H.S. and moved to Canada in 1990.

We had a very good discussion about their process whereby they research the possibilities, conduct telephone interviews, then arrange for a visit to Canada for face-face meetings.  This should occur after January 1st.

I was impressed with the service I received from this office and I look forward to developing this market.

A good use of our taxpayer dollars!

Entry Filed under: Export, Economy

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