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Golombeck cheers up for the National Soccer team of Ecuador.

Executives of Vercex had a tight agenda visiting their key partners to define the strategies to follow in order to place harvest 2006 into the main consuming markets.

Golombeck family does not only get supplied with Ecuadorian pepper, but they also cheer up for the National Soccer team of Ecuador.

Executives of Vercex visits their friends in NJ.

Executives of Vercex had a tight agenda visiting their key partners to define the strategies to follow in order to place harvest 2006 into the main consuming markets.

Executive of VERCEX visited key partners as well as current and potential customers.

By: Johana Zambrano

EL CARMEN, Ecuador — Until recently, the perspective of the new harvest of pepper of Ecuador were not encouraging. Some agriculturists had knocked down the plantations of pepper due to the low international prices which have been repressed for quite long already. Also, the strong rains had not allowed the plants to mature suitably which caused the harvest to delay a little more than expected.

Nevertheless, it is confirmed the harvest will begin in July/August. There are new plantations which are beginning to produce. Rains have stopped allowing the pepper vines to be loaded and developing favorably. Total harvest is expected to be approximately 3000 metric tons, similar amount as previous year.

For this reason, in previous days, executives of Vercex had a tight agenda visiting their key partners as well as current and potential customers to define the strategies to follow in order to place harvest 2006 into the main consuming markets.

By: Johana Zambrano

MANTA, Ecuador — VERCEX´s member, Pimienta & Especias Co. which handles the processing and export of spices, mainly of pepper, has acquired new technology to increase and to improve even more the quality of their products. Its monthly supply-offer has increased 250 tons metric of whole pepper for Crop 2006.

The company counts on high quality technology, and at the present moments it has diversified its products. It offers not only whole pepper, black and white, but ground pepper also, which is elaborated under all the technical requirements of customers. Pimienta & Especias Co. is already exporting ground pepper succesfully to consumer markets such as the United States.