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MarketTimesDecember2016

13 Market Times • December 2016 REPORT Giovanni Zampieri, originally from Milan, who now lives near Slough, brought some Pure Italian Passion to Besançon international market where he sold his nougat and Italian confectionery along with his assistant Christian Asare runs Moonraker Preserves part-time, making jam and preserves at home during the week whilst looking after two young children. He sells at fetes and markets at the weekend. Forced to give up his job as a teacher following back surgery, Ross decided to try the international market and combine it with a family holiday over the half term week. Yara, who sells her home-made fudge at farmers’ markets, said: “I saw this as a lucrative opportunity.” Yara owes her business to her young daughter who perfected her recipe for home-made fudge. She speaks fluent French after a nomadic childhood living in various countries and was soon called upon to be interviewed for the local radio station to promote the market. She also helped her fellow British traders who spoke little or no French. Ruben hadn’t checked where Besançon was on the map before deciding it was an opportunity he couldn’t miss. The long journey overnight took its toll, and in the end he decided to call it a day because the footfall wasn’t what he had hoped for. Giovanni had also been hoping for better footfall but thoroughly enjoyed meeting traders from all over the continent. Besançon was probably quieter than many continental markets and traders need a spirit of adventure to trade abroad, but friendship and camaraderie among traders from different countries is worth the effort. Yara Hartkoorn and Dani Williams indulged their spirit of adventure and decided to take a pitch at the international market Roeland Storms, selling Belgian confectionery, organises lots of continental markets in his home country


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