2024.12.10 Hybrid Lunch Mtg - Chris Bailey

CHRIS BAILEY

Wahiawā Value-Added Product Development Center

Chris is the manager of a new 33,000-square-foot manufacturing and teaching facility aims to help entrepreneurs develop marketable food products. Chris understands the value of food, in part from growing up while his mother and aunt ran a Thai restaurant in Waipahu. And he spent time working in the industry in Portland while studying business at Lewis & Clark College, and after.  He understands the impact that is made when more value is added to the food that Hawai‘i’s farmers produce. 

The Center had education for entrepreneurs, assists farmers when their crops are abundant or don't meet the criteria for distribution.  Additionally, per Chris, the center includes equipment for manufacturing that startups otherwise could not easily access.  This also includes food-processing and packaging spaces, refrigerated storage and a high-pressure processing system that preserves taste and color while creating products with longer shelf lives.

Join us to learn more about this facinating business and how it helps our community! 

If you would like to know more, please click the links below: 

Wahiawa VAPDC - Leeward Community College

20 for the Next 20: Chris Bailey, Wahiawā Value-Added Product Development Center - Hawaii Business Magazine

Walk-ins welcome!  We welcome walk-ins and know some of you don't know if you can make it until the last minute.  Please join us!  Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event.  Walk-in rate is $50.  

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