{"id":18890,"date":"2017-07-07T08:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T00:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=18890"},"modified":"2017-07-07T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T10:44:09","slug":"16-ph-firms-bag-us23-4-export-sales-in-major-taiwan-food-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/16-ph-firms-bag-us23-4-export-sales-in-major-taiwan-food-show\/","title":{"rendered":"16 PH firms bag US$23.4 export sales in major Taiwan food show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen Philippine food companies generated US$23.4 million worth of export sales in the recently held Taipei International Food Show (TIFS) at the Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 1 in Taiwan last June 21-24.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18891\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/image005-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"893\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/image005-1.jpg 623w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/image005-1-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>At the FOOD TAIPEI Show<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Led by the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM), the Philippine delegation in TIFS 2017 surpassed the target sales of US$22 million and exceeded the previous US$21.58 sales generated in 2016 by 8.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippines had a successful participation in Taiwan. We surpassed our sales goal and actually brought\u00a016 companies under the Philippine banner from an initial target of 12 companies,\u201d said CITEM Executive Director Clayton Tugonon. \u201cWe were also able to share necessary information to these companies so that they can capitalize on the promising market opportunities in Taiwan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18892\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/image006-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>FOOD Philippines delegates<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among the Philippines\u2019 best-sellers in the event were ready-to-drink tropical fruit juices and preserves; canned tuna; coconut products, such as virgin coconut oil, coconut cream, sugar and medium chain triglycerides (MCT); muscovado sugar in powder form and rock form; banana chips; soft-served ice cream mix, cones and waffles; and herbal tea, MX3 coffee and food supplements.<\/p>\n<p>The TIFS, or popularly known as FOOD TAIPEI, is an annual 4-day food fair that links the entire food industry supply chain in Taiwan and other countries\u2014from agriculture and aquaculture, refrigeration, processed food, food machinery, packaging and packaging equipment. It was participated by 1,717 exhibitors with a total of 4,011 booths, including participating representatives from 36 countries, to cover every link of the supply chain in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: DTI-CITEM Press release<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen (16) Philippine food companies generated US$23.4 million worth of export sales in the recently held Taipei International Food Show (TIFS) at the Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 1 in Taiwan last June 21-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[3491,3367,339,338],"class_list":["post-18890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-food-philippines","tag-food-taipei","tag-taipei","tag-taiwan"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/image006-1-e1499394659327.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18957,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18890\/revisions\/18957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}