NOTE TO EDITORS:

Judy Foote, Minister of Development and Rural Renewal, will be the keynote speaker at the "Exporting for Profit" workshop being held today at Hotel Marystown in Marystown. Ms. Foote will deliver the luncheon address at 12:30 p.m.

The "Exporting for Profit" workshop, organized by the Department of Development and Rural Renewal and the Schooner Regional Development Corporation, will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will include a series of presentations from various groups about exporting. Presenters include:

• Lorne Janes - the Alliance of Manufacturers and Exporters Newfoundland
• Dave Murrin - ACOA
• Brian Collins from P.F. Collins Customs Brokers Ltd.
• Gerard Mercher - Manager of the St. Pierre et Miquelon Development Agency
• Patricia Hearn - Industry Canada
• Rick Cumerford - ACOA
• Matt Aylward - Business Development Bank of Canada
• Marie-France Rodriguez - Rodriguez Markland Cottage Winery
• Peter Llewelyn, Grand Bank Seafoods Inc.
• Susan Hollett - Hollett and Sons

Contact: Susan Laite, Director of Communications, (709) 729-4570.