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February 17, 2007! All we can say
is Congratulations! It is
about time and we are with you 150
percent!!! We celebrate with you
today and toast the new beginning!
Count on TJP before, now and in the
future! Free Kosovo forever!
We are happy for you and pledge our
support and assistance as always!
The spirit of Thomas Paine is with you!
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 December
2006. Uzbek Poetry Collaboration.
We are delighted to report that the
first version of Sonnets from Uzbek poet
Akbar Aliev has been published and is
available through this web site.
It contains 22 sonnets and is in Uzbek
language and will be translated to
English in the neat future.
- October
2003. TJP conducts China Blueberry
Research and Recon. TJP
worked with staff of Jilin Agricultural
University in Changchun on a visit to
the Chinese blueberry growing
region. Included a lecture at the
University and visits to growing regions
throughout the Jilin and Liaoning
provinces as well as the Korean
Autonomous Region.
- September
2003. TJP facilitates dried fruit
Seminar, Budapest, Prague. In
cooperation with the USDA, TJP presented
a seminar on new developments in the
food industry for participants form
throughout Central Europe.
- September
2003. TJP Sr. Building
dedicated at Don Bosco School for Boys,
Chennai, India.
- Nov
2002. Return to Hermit Kingdom's
Back Gate! While many
visitors stand at the vista center of
the DMZ between the two Koreas -- TJP
takes a closer look at the other side of
the DPRK (North Korea). During a
recent marketing mission for the Raisin
Administrative Committee (RAC) of
California, TJP traveled to the border
city of Dandong on the Yalu River to
visit old friends and assess potential
trade. (caption:
Korean/Chinese language billboard,
Dandong Customs House.)
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 Oct
2002. The Road Around Kosovo!
The war is over and it is time to
re-build! TJP is working with the
Kosovo Business Services (KBS), Pristina,
Kosovo (A USAID program) to help
re-build the region's food
industry. This involves
identification of unique specialty food
products for the domestic and export
markets. TJP recently traveled all
over the war torn region meeting with villagers,
gathers and processors of items
including: wild mushrooms, juniper
berries, medicinal herbs, honey and
native berries! Now the hard work
begins: find markets! Read all
about it! (story)
(photo
caption: Village on Albanian frontier
high above the region of Dragash. Note
the Minaret in background.)
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 Sept 2002.
Return to Cuba.
It has been 40 years since Americans
have been allowed to do business with
our neighbors in Cuba. TJP is
working with the California Raisin
Marketing Board to travel to Cuba for
the first U.S. Food & Agribusiness
Exhibition in Havana September
26-30. Read about it in the
Business Section of the Fresno Bee,
September 5, 2002. (view)
- Sept
2002. Baltic Activity Launched.
TJP was one of the first US companies to
operate in Estonia back in Soviet times,
during the transition to democracy and
after. Now the company is leading
an initiative by the California raisin
growers to enter this market. In
September 18, TJP will lead a trade team
to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to meet
with importers, wholesalers and the
trade.
- July
2002. TJP publishes publishes
marketing chapter in A Treatise on
Raisin Production, Processing and
Marketing. An expert is
someone form out of town carrying a
clipboard and a hammer! Tom just
completed writing the marketing chapter
on raisins in Professor Vince Petrucci
of Fresno State University's new compendium
on raisins. Hard to believe but
there are more than 250 pages on raisins
including cool maps and production
photos. Tom wrote chapter 14, a
review of all of the many ways that
raisins are used in the food processing
industry in the USA and around the
world.
- June
2002. TJPMD orchestrates Icelandic
Advertising Campaign for Blueberry
Council.
Thanks in part to our promotions,
Iceland is now the third leading export
market for fresh blueberries in the
world. This summer we are running advertisements
in the daily newspapers and magazines in
this island nation of 300,000.
View our ads at:
http://www.blueberry.org/icelandic.htm
- June
2002. TJPMD launches Taiwan ad
campaign for Blueberry Council.
Four new health oriented advertorials
were designed and published in woman's
health and nutrition magazines in Taiwan
this summer and will continue into the
Fall. The ads emphasize antioxidants and
anti aging benefits of blueberry
consumption. A separate ad also
ran in produce magazines to announce the
arrival of fresh blueberries to Taiwan.
(view)
- June
2002. TJPMD launches Japanese
trade ads for Blueberry
Council.
We are launching a new advertisement in
Japanese produce magazines announcing
the arrival of fresh blueberries in
Japan. The campaign is also
bolstered by a campaign to food
processing magazines that show the
goodness of blueberries in manufactured
food products.
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May
2002. TJPMD Deployed to Afghanistan.
TJPMD has received a contract
to assist the US-AID and the Central
Asian Development Group in the Helmand
Province of Afghanistan working on the
cotton sector in opium eradication
activities. View our project
web:
http://www.central-asia.net
- May,
2002. TJPMD Active in Military Sector.
TJPMD represented client California
raisins at the US Research and
Development Associates, the trade association
for the US Military feeding
programs. We introduced innovative
energy bars designed for long range
warfare.
- May
2002. TJPMD Orchestrates Philippine and
Singaporean Seminars.
TJPMD worked on behalf of the Raisin
Administrative Committee to being chefs
from the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York
to Manila and Singapore for seminar
demonstrations. They were a big
hit!
- April
2002. TJPMD Returns to Central
Europe. TJPMD was a pioneer in
marketing California raisins into
Central Europe in the pre and post
communistic era. We are now
returning and have recently completed a
recon activity in Hungary, Czech
Republic and Poland. We conducted
meetings with the trade and importers
along with our old friends in the field
who will be coordinating upcoming
activities.
Press
Coverage:
- Return to
Cuba. Fresno Bee,
September 5, 2002. Describes TJPs
re-entry to the Cuban market for the
California Raisin growers. (view
)
- TJP
featured in June 2001 Business Week -
Asian Edition. A chance
encounter with an American Journalist
stationed in Vladivostok, Russian Far
East resulted in a cool story about TJP
business in the Hermit Kingdom.
The article described our company as a
firm that specializes in advising
companies on entry into tough
markets." Also quoted my good
friend Michael Sun who sells everything
from "Screaming Bat" electric
fans from China to Harley Davidson
motorcycles from the USA to the elite of
the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, also known as North Korea. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_23/b3735130.htm
TJP is curently researching the
profesional wrestling traditions of
North Korea, and will post at a later
date!
- TP's
Views on North Korea featured in US
Military Newspaper.
Read what the US Military newspaper
"Stars and Stripes" has to say
about Tom Payne's pioneering work in the
Worker's Paradise in an article titled: A
Rare Look at a Secretive Nation.
(Adobe pdf.) Note the contrast between
the folks who are considering
"studying the market," and
they guy who has already done it!!!
Sorry Great Leader Junior, no disrespect
intended -- have a happy birthday and
enjoy the upcoming Wrestlemania 2000!
1/28/2000
- TP
featured on BBC World Service.
Listeners around the world heard an
interview by Tom Payne on traditions
associated with walnuts. Tom
shared the waves with experts in China,
Azerbaijan and Iran. The broadcast
can be accessed at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/outlook/
1/27/00
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