WHAT DO WE OFFER?
Business Promotion
CSF provides support in the search for fair national and international markets for members’ products.
Trying to close the gap between production and consumption, CSF seeks strategic alliances with organizations and firms in the countries where the members’ products are sold, that support CSF’s principles, especially those related to added value at the source or country of origin, as well as origin denomination.
Ideally, the purchasing firm could join CSF. In principle, we work with the full range of member associations’ products in both domestic and international markets.
Currently, CSF members are placing on the international market:
- Two types of coffee (espresso and mocha)
- Cocoa powder for baking
- Whole raw sugar (panela)
- Polyfloral honey
- Fruit juices (orange, tangerine, banana puree)
- Different types of chocolate cookies with quinoa and emmer wheat;
- Five different chocolate bars.
All of the products indicated above can be acquired in Italy from the commercial firm, Grupo Alce Nero § Mielizia, belonging to one of our members: www.alceneromielizia.it/it/alceneroequosolidale/dettaglio.asp?id=26
Technical Projects:
Designed to increase the degree of product transformation, improve efficiency, and increase the quality of members’ products, CSF coordinates and if necessary, seeks financing for projects that respond to members’ needs.
Formation and Training:
CSF provides formation and training services for members on topics related to product development, business management, and market handling. It provides short courses, internships, and other types of training.
CURRENT PROJECTS
- Export of chocolate coatings made in Costa Rica for domestic and European markets.
- Evaluation for importation of products from Brazil, Argentina, and Chile to Costa Rica.
- Project in Brazil to raise Amazonian fruits to produce juices.
- Support for APPTA in the planning of a project to produce, process, and market fruit pulp for both domestic and international markets.