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The GOTEXAN Partner Program (GOTEPP) Advisory Board recently awarded $443,000 in funding to the following recipients:
• Brenham Cake Co., Inc., dba High Cotton Baking Co., Brenham, $40,308 to have new boxes designed and produced. The High Cotton Baking Co. has been marketing gourmet desserts since 1983.
•Dallas Farmers Market, Dallas, $86,308 for print advertisements, promotional materials, an annual calendar, billboards, direct mail and recruitment materials to attract Texas organic farmers.
•Fall Creek Vineyards, Tow, $12,726 to redesign its wine labels, develop new brochures and enhance its Web site.
•Messina Hof Wine Cellars, Inc., Bryan, and Monterey Mushrooms, Inc., Madisonville, $27,750 to promote pairing Texas mushrooms and Texas wines through a joint marketing partnership.
•Southern Fields Aloe, Inc., Mercedes, $13,859 to attend the Canadian Produce Marketing Association trade show and print a banner to display in the company's booth area.
•Smeyne Enterprises, Inc., dba Texas Sassy Foods, Austin, $54,339 for print advertisements, catalogs, hangtags, product usage cards, Web site development, vehicle signage, a trade show booth and trade show attendance to promote its unique pickle chips, pickle relish and pickle sauce.
•Texas Christmas Tree Growers Association, Elgin, $5,863 for production of a Texas Christmas tree farm brochure and to attend the Science Teachers Association of Texas (CAST) trade show. The brochure will list farms by location and have a brief synopsis of activities.
•Tisket A Tasket, Rockport, $8,767 for brochures, Web site development, advertisements in local tourist guides and to attend multiple trade shows to promote the company's line of unique jellies.
•Two Sisters Boer, dba Powell-Holman Boer Goats, Sonora, $41,991 for brochures, postcards, Web site enhancement, print advertisements, a pen banner and trade show attendance to promote Texas-raised Boer goats. The company raises 25 percent of the animals in Sutton and Schleicher counties.
•Western Leather Goods, Inc., dba Rios of Mercedes and its subsidiary, Anderson Bean Boot Company, Inc., dba Anderson Bean Boots and Olathe Boots, Mercedes, $142,951 to design and produce print advertisements and to participate in a trade show to promote the company's Texas-made boots.
•Willow Grove Ranch, Moody, $8,412 to attend multiple trade shows to market and promote the ranch's emu oil. The emus are raised at Willow Grove Ranch, processed in Lampasas and the oil is refined at a Texas A&M-designed refinery in Jewett.
GOTEPP is designed to help leverage the dollars available to promote agricultural products grown and processed in Texas.
