Market Builder

2025 Market Builder – South America

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Event Date
November 1, 2024—November 1, 2025
Location
South America

The Benefits of Market Builder

Finding the right market and buyer for your product is the key to exporting success. This one-of-a-kind service offers custom packages designed to each exporter’s needs.

Market Builder provides flexible, customized research to help your company uncover new potential in international markets. It has two components: Market Scan and Rep Finder, which can be purchased together or separately.

Market Builder is offered in:

Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru

Market Builder Pricing Options:

  • MarketScan: $475
  • RepFinder: $575
  • Market Builder Package: $825 (Package includes MarketScan & RepFinder)

Market Scan

Market Scan provides initial, in-depth market research services for a specific product, including:

  • Store Check and Distribution Analysis: Offers the brand names, packages, sizes, regular retail prices, current price specials, and shelf space allotments for similar products.
  • Competitive Product Shopping: First-hand information and samples of similar and competing products sold in the market.
  • Import Opportunity Analysis: Import regulations and restrictions affecting the importation of your product into a specific market.
  • Distributor Referrals: Importer feedback on package size, labeling, taste, appearance, price and marketability.
  • Target Importer List: Includes names, contact information and a brief summary of importers’ profiles.

Get to know Jose Madeira, Food Export’s South America In-Market Representative

Jose Madeira, Managing Director, is a Brazilian and U.S. citizen and has more than 29 years of experience in the private and government sectors with demonstrated expertise in forging and strengthening economic and business ties between Brazil and the US. Prior to creating BusinessBrazil, Jose Madeira was a Senior International Advisor with the Federation of Industries of the State of Minas Gerais (FIEMG) in Brazil and Trade Specialist at the Brazilian Government Commercial Office in NY.

Since
2001, Jose Madeira has been a professor of International Marketing, International Business Management, and Import/Export Operations at graduate level in Brazilian Universities. Jose Madeira received his MBA in International Banking and Finance from Dowling
College in New York, holds specialization in International Trade and Marketing from the World Trade Institute in NY and Montclair State University in NJ, and received his B.S. degree in Metallurgical engineering from Ouro Preto Federal University in Brazil.

Rep Finder

Rep Finder provides the opportunity for direct meetings between your company and a select group of targeted importers. These opportunities include:

  • Distributor Referrals: Importer feedback on package size, labeling, taste, appearance, price and marketability.
  • Target Importer List: Includes names, contact information and a brief summary of importers’ profiles.
  • In-Market Assistance: A minimum of three one-on-one appointments (should the market allow) will be arranged with participating companies and targeted importers. An International Marketing Executive will assist in communication, interpretation and moderation of meetings.

Products of Interest

Top U.S. products in demand:

  • Food preparations
  • processed/Prepared dairy products
  • Fats and oils
  • Prepared/Preserved meats
  • Processed Vegetables and pulses
  • Non-alcoholic beverages
  • Chocolate and confectionery
  • Snack foods
  • Dog and cat food

Preparation Assistance

Export Essentials Online

Whether you’re new to exporting or need to refresh your skills, this free online training course provides a comprehensive, flexible approach to learning the fundamentals and logistics of exporting.

Market Data

Get a head start with Market Intelligence Reports.

We have the market intelligence you need to make informed decisions to determine if this market is right for your products.

Complimentary Webinars

Our educational webinars provide up-to-date exporter intelligence regarding specific markets, logistics, trade financing, documentation, how to meet and follow-up with international buyers, and much more.

Export Success

Participants in 2019 Market Builder Reported:

Market Access Program (MAP) Funding

4
1st Time Export Sales

New Distributorships Established

52
New Distributorships Established

New Foreign Buyer Contacts

228
New Foreign Buyer Introductions

Agricultural Trade Promotion Program (ATP) Fund

$3 Million
Projected Sales

Over $100k in New Export Sales

$391 Thousand
Actual Sales
Branded Program

Double Your International Marketing Dollars

You may be eligible for up to 50% reimbursement on:

  • Advertisement
  • Marketing and promotions
  • International tradeshows
  • Public relations
  • International websites
  • Foreign market compliant packaging/labeling
  • And much more!