U.S. Companies Line Up to Do Business in Cuba
U.S. Companies Line Up to Do Business in Cuba
“Cuba is a very romantic and sexy market right now,” comments AS/COA’s Alana Tummino as U.S. companies line-up to do business on the island.
Chris Rosander was touring a mango grove in Cuba last year with a group of U.S. agriculture leaders when he had a revelation: “Why don’t we import mangoes from Cuba?”
Sun-Maid Growers, the California dried fruit company where he heads international market development, currently gets its mangoes from Thailand. Cuba, he said, is “90 miles from the U.S. instead of halfway around the world.”
Rosander is a part of a rush of American business leaders who see dollar signs in warming U.S.-Cuba relations, on display this week during President Obama’s historic visit to Havana….
…And then there was singer and businessman Jimmy Buffett rubbing elbows at a cocktail reception with top White House advisors. He is said to be exploring the possibility of bringing his Margaritaville restaurant chain here.
“Cuba is a very romantic and sexy market right now,” said Alana Tummino, director of policy at Council of the Americas, a U.S. business organization that promotes open markets in Latin America and on a recent night cohosted a party for executives interested in doing business here….
