James Bay Distillers named to Greater-Seattle Partners’ Export Accelerator Program
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Everett, WA James Bay Distillers announced that they have been selected for the Greater Seattle Partners’ Export Accelerator Program. The 16-week program provides advanced export training, export advising, and tailored access to international markets. The program is designed for small and medium-sized businesses in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. This is the fifth cohort of the program.
The company plans to use this export development program to expand its reach to buyers in Asia, to refine market-specific strategies and to achieve new sales from their distillery at Paine Field in Everett. James Bay is joined in this program by more than dozen other local companies, each with unique products and services. James Bay routinely produces marketing materials in the languages of their target markets. Company co-founders Ernest and Leigh Troth bring decades of foreign expat experience, and process engineering to their distillery.
About the company: James Bay Distillers is an internationally acclaimed producer of luxury quality whiskies, gins and vodkas with awards from Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, San Diego, Los Angeles and Texas. The company has previously exported private-label whiskey and gin to customers in Hong Kong and Japan. The company was featured in 2025 at Whisky Live Bangkok, and has also separately sold its bourbon to a company based in Thailand and London. James Bay’s spirits often include international inspirations: a vodka made using proprietary Russian techniques; a gin with Canadian Saskatoon berries and Pacific island ube; a liqueur matching the dark chocolate & apricot flavors of the famed Sachertorte of Vienna, Austria; a classic Italian finocchietto, and more. Their Summer Gin No. 5 was featured in London in 2020, and articles about the company published in London, Taipei, Tokyo, and Johannesburg. In 2025 the company was named an emerging producer at Seattle Cocktail Week.
About the program: The Export-Accelerator Program is a collaborative effort including the Port of Seattle, the Small Business Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington State Department of Commerce, Snohomish County, City of Seattle, Coupang Inc., Miller Nash, City of Tacoma and others. Additional information is available at their website: Greater-Seattle.com.
About export availability: Wholesale, on-premise, off-premise and export Inquiries may be made to the company by email: [email protected], by phone (425-212-9135), or by a visit to their facility. Private label projects subject to state and federal regulations and company policies.
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