The T&T con­fec­tionery mar­ket is not com­pet­i­tive, said Jose Luiz Seabra, di­rec­tor, Brastrade Ltd, a Brazil-based con­fec­tionery man­u­fac­tur­er.

Brastrade Ltd was one of sev­er­al Brazil­ian com­pa­nies which par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Trade and In­vest­ment Con­ven­tion (TIC) at the Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad ho­tel, Port-of-Spain.

"When you have the price, the prod­uct or the qual­i­ty, I think you can go fur­ther out in the mar­ket and get through with it, so far it's not so hard for me."

Chew­ing gum and marsh­mal­low are just two prod­ucts Seabra's com­pa­ny sells in T&T mar­ket.

Busi­ness for Seabra has been lu­cra­tive.

"I have been in T&T for 13 years now, I see the po­ten­tial it has and that's why I am stay­ing here."

Par­tic­i­pat­ing in TIC for the first time, he got or­ders for his prod­ucts and de­scribed the first day as "re­al good."

"I gained a lot of con­tacts. Peo­ple were in­ter­est­ed in the prod­ucts, coun­tries from up the is­lands showed in­ter­est."

Seabra said he plans to re­turn to TIC in 2014. NS

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