NDTO is pleased to announce Mark King, CEO and President of TaylorMade-adidas Golf, as the headline speaker for the 2014 Global Business Connections Conference, April 29-30, at the Ramada Plaza Suites in Fargo, ND. In addition to the keynote address, GBC 2014 will be a two-day event consisting of a tradeshow and exhibits, breakout and training sessions designed to educate participants on specific issues related to international business, panel discussions featuring global business leaders, and networking opportunities. The 2013 Global Business Awards, the most-prestigious international business awards in the region, will also be presented.  

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JM Grain, a grain buyer in Garrison, N.D., exports to 12 to 15 countries. The company, which purchases and sells chickpeas, lentils, feed peas, green peas, yellow peas and seed, hopes to soon add one more to the list.  

The family-owned business will be among several North Dakota companies bound for Ghana, Africa, later this month.

The North Dakota Trade Office is leading a multi-sector trade mission Jan. 16-23 to Accra, Ghana, to introduce North Dakota products to potential Ghanaian food producers.

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Fifty exporters and local business professionals received a provocative, and sometimes humorous, insight into the massive change that is happening and will continue to happen in the global economy during the State of the Global Economy Trade Talk, held Jan. 15 in Fargo.  Pete Mento, Director for Global Customs and Trade Policy at C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. led the discussion and answered questions from attendees.  

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