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Article: Gabon provides niche market for value-added foods.
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- AgExporter
- Article date:
- December 1, 1992
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Developing markets may well exist for a variety of value-added U.S. food products in the West African republic of Gabon. Jonathan Gressel, the U.S. agricultural attache in Lagos, Nigeria, recently visited Gabon to survey the potential for increased U.S. food sales there.
According to Gressel, Gabonese importers like the quality of U.S. consumer products and believe they are competitive with European items, which dominate the local market. Products in demand include fruit juices, canned vegetables and fruits, nuts, vegetable oils, flour, cake mixes, breakfast cereals, rice, snack foods, canned meat and fish, soft drinks, beer and wine. Gabon also imports a wide ...