Feuding aside, Team Canada scores high
PHILIP AUTHIER
THE GAZETTE
Canadians "well respected"
"For our company to create the same presence (here) as Team Canada did would be too expensive," said JetForm president Hugh Millikin. "I don't think Canadians appreciate how well respected they are internationally."
Montreal's Lanser Corp, signed a deal that will make its cellpac technology, which processes credit card approval and other data, a daily part of Philippine business. Lanser went on to Thailand where it signed a letter of intent for a joint venture to bring its technology to the Thai business world.
Mitchell Brownstein, a Montreal lawyer who was with the Team Canada young entrepreneurs group, made contacts for eventual sales of rice-cake machines in Asia. "They have the rice but they don't have the technology," he said, noting that Americans consumed $250 million worth of rice cakes last year.
Rene Ares, president of Citadelle, a maple-syrup co-operative that markets
Citadelle, Camp and OU Canada syrup brands in other countries, is trying to
move into Asia. Ares said he made contacts through Team Canada and concluded
one thing about Asians: "They have a sweet tooth."
