Saturday, August 4, 2012

Day 12

Today was probably the most unbelievable day so far..i will explain in full detail. I am here in uganda to learn about coffee from the ground up. every angle of coffee i will need to learn to be successful in the United States. So while i am learning the chemistry of coffee, i am also learning the marketing side of it here in uganda. One of main reasons why uganda has paid for my trip here is they want to penetrate the US market with ugandan coffee. Edmund is the head of UCDA (uganda coffee development authority) quality control department, but his position with ucda is a conflict of interest and he can not sell coffee, that is where we come in. Today we got  a rare chance to meet with the president of UCDA, this guy never ever ever meets with any potential buyers or sellers, but because he trusts edmund he has agreed to meet with us. We went into the meeting and killed it. The UCDA is giving us their full support and we are all set. anyone who is reading this knows how big that is and now we have ugandas government behind us, they have never backed any other company before.. so it is a very big deal. if we do everything right and by the book we should be very very well off. i cant describe the feeling we had when we left this mans office, to accomplish something like this is absolutly incredible. :)

1 comment:

  1. Where's is my day 13, 14, and 15? It's like the paper not being delivered. Drink your coffee and give me the scoop. I have no life.

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