After sending off its first shipment of products to Costa Rica last Friday, Spur Tree Spices is now seeking to tap into other foreign markets and to expand in those already penetrated.

The sauces and marinade company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Albert Bailey said that while they currently ship to most of the major countries including the United States, which accounts for approximately 70 per cent of their exports — the larger strategy is to spread Spur Tree products into more states.

“Our major goal is to expand in the existing markets a lot of which have not yet been fully built out. ”Right now our main area of business is coming from the north-east and south. Our focus is to get into areas such as North and South Carolina right down into Atlanta and linking back to Florida,” he shared in an interview with the Business Observer last week, during a send-off event and tour of factory facilities at Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston.

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