{"id":23796,"date":"2019-11-06T14:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=23796"},"modified":"2019-11-06T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:38:34","slug":"department-seeks-food-exhibitors-for-gulfood-2020-tradeshow-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2019\/11\/06\/department-seeks-food-exhibitors-for-gulfood-2020-tradeshow-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Seeks Food Exhibitors for Gulfood 2020 Tradeshow in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deadline to Register for Cost-Share Program is November 16<\/em><\/h2>\n

ANNAPOLIS, MD <\/strong>\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture encourages Maryland food businesses who are looking to expand their products into international export markets to attend the Gulfood 2020<\/a> tradeshow, Feb. 16-20, 2020, in Dubai. Gulfood is the world\u2019s largest annual food and beverage trade exhibition.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering a 50% cost-share program for Southern U.S. Trade Association (SUSTA) members that covers booth costs, travel for up to 2 company employees on a U.S. carrier, lodging for up to 2 people per company at the federal per diem rate, booth furniture, and more. Companies must register before November 16. Booths are available on a first-come, first serve basis.<\/p>\n

Interested Maryland companies must register for SUSTA, a non-profit organization that facilitates agricultural trade between small to medium-sized southern U.S. companies and overseas importers, to be eligible for this cost-share program. Sign up to become a SUSTA member on their website<\/a>. After becoming a SUSTA member, companies interested in the cost-share program should reach out to the department\u2019s Director of International Marketing Theresa Brophy at 410-841-5781 or theresa.brophy@maryland.gov<\/a> as soon as possible for next steps.<\/p>\n

In the past five years, companies in the SUSTA booth at Gulfood have had sales of more than $40 million. Just last year, the tradeshow attracted more than 98,000 visitors and 5,000 exhibitors from 192 countries. The United Arab Emirates and neighboring countries import nearly 90% of their food. Value-added food categories like Halal foods, poultry, cheeses, non-alcoholic beverages, pet foods, and sauces all have great potential in this market.<\/p>\n

For more information on Gulfood 2020, visit their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Deadline to Register for Cost-Share Program is November 16 ANNAPOLIS, MD \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture encourages Maryland food businesses who are looking to expand their products into international export markets to attend the Gulfood 2020 tradeshow, Feb. 16-20, 2020, in Dubai. Gulfood is the world\u2019s largest annual food and beverage trade exhibition. The  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23798,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796\/revisions\/23798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}