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Chile Connected: Food Innovation - Day 2

About This Webinar

The Food Institute is pleased to partner with ProChile to put together an education and matchmaking program designed to highlight some of Chile’s most innovative food companies and products. The program is designed to help educate and facilitate virtual meetings with prospective US partners (e.g., retailers, importers, distributors, brokers, etc.)

The program will feature company presentations from 14 leading Chilean companies that manufacture innovative products such as plant-based foods, functional foods, berries and fruit juice derivatives, low-sodium salt, spices, and superfood protein bars.

Who Should Attend?
• Food Retailers
• Food Distributors
• Brokers/Sales Agents
• Importers
• Investment Partners

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The virtual B2B matchmaking experience aims to create direct connections between Chilean producers of healthy food and beverage products and US based buyers. This initiative will also include a series of presentations where participants will be able to learn about Chile's most recent trends in food innovation.

The categories for B2B matchmaking include:

Fresh Fruits, Organic and Regular
Frozen Fruits, Organic and Regular
Frozen Fruit pulp, Organic and Regular
Fruit Juices, Organic and Regular
Functional Ingredients (I.E. Freeze dried super fruit powders)
Healthy Consumer packaged food
Plant-Based Foods
Organic Teas
Salt and Spices

We look forward to supporting Chilean food and beverage producers through this initiative and look forward to having you participate!

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If you have any questions or to express your interest in participating, please contact:

Brian Choi, The Food Institute
CEO/Managing Partner
E-Mail: brian.choi@foodinstitute.com

Paola Garcia, The Food Institute
Business Development Director
E-Mail: paola.garcia@foodinstitute.com

Ron Tanner, The Food Institute
Senior Advisor
E-Mail: ron.tanner@foodinstitute.com

Christophe Desplas, ProChile
Chile Trade Commissioner New York
E-Mail: cdesplas@prochile.gob.cl

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About ProChile:

The Export Promotion Bureau (ProChile), an agency under the Foreign Ministry's Directorate General for International Economic Relations, works to advance and consolidate Chilean trade policy.

ProChile assists small and medium-size enterprises in their trade expansion efforts by leveraging the opportunities afforded by recent trade agreements, fostering public-private partnerships, and helping position Chile in the international marketplace.

ProChile's network of in-country and foreign-based trade offices offer Chilean exporters a broad range of specific services, notably general orientation, trade development, and information technology.

Categories:

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Who can view: People who attended or registered for the webinar only

Webinar Price: Free

Featured Presenters

Claudia Guiloff

CEO, Nativ For Life

Supply health in a natural and innovative way, through native fruits from Patagonia, where each one contains bioactive principles with specific benefits Fruits. We have been the leading group of maqui berry domestication for more than 8 years. Our aim is to supply the world with this native Chilean fruit in a sustainable manner. We are committed with generating a positive impact through our business model. We hope to heal our planet and society by deploying the power of our corporate social responsibility and providing organic regenerative agriculture in our production.

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Grant Scates

Commercial Assistant, Vilkun

Vilkun is a revolutionary brand, which leads in industrial innovation thanks to a selection of products that surprise the world. From the south of Chile, we combine origin and vanguard with the latest technology, to create an offer that makes us ambassadors of the best native and organic fruits (maqui, blueberries, murta), while also providing traditional fruits that our customers already know and love (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, among others).

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Hermann Hinrichsen

Co-Founder and CEO, Brota Superfoods

Superfoods give us all the power of nature, with high nutritional density and proven health benefits. At Brota, we select the best ingredients and develop innovative preparations to deliver the best nutritional solutions.

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Karl Weinacker

Director, Andes Wisdom Chile

Our R&D company was founded in November 2013. We produce natural extract from fruits, vegetables, leaves, peels, others. The extracts are mainly antioxidants, from raw materials grown in Chile. The products are oriented to the industries of functional foods and food supplements, using natural products in their production. We also offer products to the end consumer, providing for them our line, synergic food, natural fruit puree fortified with antioxidants, prebiotics, dietary fiber, plant based proteins, mineral, EPA/DHA, etc.

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Manuel de la Vega

Commercial Manager, Bayas del Sur

Bayas del Sur , devoted company to process 7 super berries , mainly from Patagonia area during last 31 years. Basically offer liquid ingredients: called juice concentrates for 100% water dilution and solid ingredients by freeze drying technology : may be whole freeze dried fruits, or pieces, or crunchy bites or powder. We offer high color extraction and best flavor and polyphenols extraction rate. Our customers belong to next categories: functional foods, beverages, gummies, protein bars, yogurt, ice cream manufacturers.

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Natalia Arcos

Head of Agri-Food Department, ProChile

Natalia is the current Head of the Agri-food Industry at ProChile, the Chilean Export Promotion Agency in Chile, running all programs related to the agri-food business such as Food Innovation, Fresh and Processed Fruits, Wines and Seafood. Natalia is a business manager specialized in Trade Policy at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and has worked leading the South America and Pacific Alliance department at ProChile and also worked in the Trade Commission in Toronto as International Trade Advisor, supporting Chilean food companies to enter the Canadian market. She is also a research assistant at the Universidad de La Frontera in Chile and senior fellow at Melton Foundation.

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Sebastian Dib

Owner, Etnia

Etnia is the first Gourmet brand in Chile. It is also the first company to export Merquen to the United States. We work with small producers and native people under the concept of "Fair Trade." Our products represent the flavors of our country with a high standard in design and food safety. Today we export to more than 8 countries. We have FDA registration since 2005, HACCP (Merquen), BMP implemented in all our line products and certification Marca Chile.

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