Better Farming – Company to appear on Dragon’s Den to seek funds for quinoa processing

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by Susan Mann
Published March 3, 2015

Health food development company, Katan Kitchens, has been selected to appear on the Dragon’s Den television show in March.

The company is seeking funds to develop a gluten-free processing facility potentially in northern Ontario to clean their quinoa varieties, called Quinta, for sales in North American and global markets.

Katan Kitchens has been working on raising funds for a facility for about the past two years. Jamie Draves, the company’s president and CEO, first announced his intention to build a facility in 2013. At the time, he had hoped to have the plant operational in the fall of that year.

However, the plant hasn’t been built yet because he has been going through a capital fundraising campaign, he says. “It’s just the challenge of raising the funds to get the facility up and running the way it should be,” he says of the development’s delay.
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