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Article: Tropical delights. (Golden Coast Food Products Inc.)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- August 1, 1992
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Kwaku Kwateng knows his roots. As founder and president of Gold Coast Food Products Inc., a distributor of tropical foods to 17 Pathmark stores in New York and Long Island, Kwateng never forgot where he came from.
Raised on a small commercial farm in Ashanti, Ghana, at the end of the Depression, the 58-year-old Kwateng says that he owes his strong work ethic to his mother. Watching her sell lumber, he recalls, taught him how businesses were run and gave him the entrepreneurial bug.
Now Kwateng, who immigrated to New York in 1960, runs a 6-year-old company that sells more than 16 vegetable and fruit products from different countries in the Caribbean and ...