"Exporting Japanese Foods" Online Business Meeting with Foreign Countries June 22 17:55
Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, overseas travel is restricted, and business opportunities for companies are decreasing. The business meeting was held for the first time.
This business meeting was organized by JETRO-Japan External Trade Organization, and more than 60 companies nationwide have online meetings with overseas buyers at their offices.
Of these, overseas sales representatives had business talks with Vietnamese buyers at a food maker's meeting room in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo.
The company sells ramen soup, and the person in charge was showing the sample through the monitor to showcase the product's characteristics.
This company has been focusing on exporting overseas mainly in Asia for several years, but due to the influence of the new coronavirus, it has been impossible to have business talks with overseas buyers since late February this year. is.
Mr. Koichi Okuda, Deputy Manager of Maruzen Food Industry Co., Ltd., said, "If you use online, it will be useful for gathering local information, so I would like to use it in conjunction with face-to-face business negotiations."
Futoshi Okazaki of the JETRO Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Food Business Promotion Department said, “Because we can have business talks with buyers even if we do not go to foreign countries and it will lead to expansion of sales channels, we will look after Corona and use such business meetings for many companies. I want it."