Love & Quiches of Freeport wins national exporting award
Susan Axelrod, founder of Love & Quiches Gourmet in Freeport, offers tips on going global during a seminar at Hofstra University on April 1, 2014. A trade show encounter eventually led her to selling in the Middle East, Asia, Russia and Mexico. Credit: Howard Schnapp
A dessert and quiche company based in Freeport has won a national award for exporting.
Love & Quiches Gourmet has been named small-business exporter of the year by the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which provides export credit insurance and other financing to U.S. companies seeking to sell products and services in foreign countries.
Love & Quiches began exporting in the early 1990s, sending frozen cheesecakes and chocolate cakes to the Middle East. Exports now account for more than 20 percent of the company's sales of $7.2 million last year.
Love & Quiches founder Susan Axelrod Thursday credited Ex-Im Bank assistance with helping the company to grow. It hopes to increase its export sales by 10 percent this year, she said.
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