CHARLESTON, W. Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2026--
J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works, a small family business in Malden, West Virginia that produces signature culinary salts, is expanding internationally for the first time by offering its products to millions of new customers in Asia through Coupang, a U.S.-technology, retail and Fortune 150 company that helps American companies export to more than 190 countries and regions around the world.
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“I’m excited to see how our relationship with Coupang can grow our business globally,” said Nancy Bruns, co-owner and CEO of the seventh-generation company. “This is something we always hoped to do, but as a small business, didn’t have the capacity to launch. I would highly recommend Coupang to other companies looking to expand into global markets.”
Exporting made easy
Coupang, a recent honoree on the LexisNexis Top 100 Global Innovators list for the second year in a row thanks to its cutting-edge technology and logistics support for retail, helped facilitate more than $5 billion in sales of U.S. products to international markets in 2025 alone.
U.S. sellers ship their products to one of Coupang’s U.S. fulfillment facilities, and the company’s logistics teams receive, store, pick, pack and ship directly to customers in Korea and other global destinations. Coupang handles all the logistics, export paperwork, processing of individual orders and deliveries to international customers, enabling small businesses to stay focused on what they do best – creating high-quality, locally-produced goods for their customers.
U.S. Rep. Carol Miller visits J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works to promote free and fair trade policies
Coupang recently joined U.S. Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) on a visit to J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works to highlight how American innovation, technology and trade policy can work together to help small and midsize businesses grow internationally. The visit served as an opportunity to spotlight the critical role family-owned businesses play in West Virginia’s economy, and to recognize how they are evolving to compete in today’s global marketplace.
“It was wonderful to be at J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works, a family-owned West Virginia business with deep roots in our state,” said Miller. “While staying grounded in tradition, they’re finding new ways to grow and reach customers beyond West Virginia. This kind of growth is increasingly possible because companies like Coupang are helping American businesses reach customers well beyond their home markets.”
“Working alongside leaders like Congresswoman Carol Miller, Coupang is proud to help West Virginia small businesses like J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works reach millions of new global customers and drive American economic growth,” said Coupang Chief Global Affairs Officer Robert Porter. “Just last year, Coupang facilitated more than $5 billion in global sales for thousands of U.S. businesses, and we’re excited to see that impact reach West Virginia’s 1st District.”
Salt has shaped lives in the Kanawha River valley and Appalachia region for generations, where the mountains shelter a 400-million-year-old sea deep underground, producing an exceptionally pure and mineral-rich salt that is harvested by hand. Today, the Salt-Works team uses a salt-mining method as old as the region: pumping brine from the ancient Iapetus Ocean beneath the mountains and drying it naturally in the sun, producing an unrefined, mineral-rich finishing salt prized by chefs.
About Coupang
Coupang is a technology and Fortune 150 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CPNG) that provides retail, restaurant delivery, video streaming and fintech services to customers around the world under the brands that include Coupang, Eats, Play, Rocket Now and FarFetch.
About J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works
J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works is a 7 th -generation salt-making family business that harvests all-natural salt by hand from an ancient ocean trapped below the Appalachian Mountains of the Kanawha Valley in West Virginia. J.Q.D. Salt-Works was founded in 1817 in West Virginia’s Kanawha Valley, was revived by members of the family in 2013, and sells culinary-grade salt products around the world from the family’s salt farm in Malden, West Virginia.
U.S. Congresswoman Carol Miller joins Nancy Bruns on a tour of J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works in Malden, West Virginia.
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal immigration court in Lower Manhattan has come to represent the Trump administration’s deportation campaign in New York City, with agents carrying out chaotic and sometimes violent arrests in the hallway as migrants leave hearings.
Now the court is serving as a front in a different kind of battle: one of the city’s most closely watched congressional races.
In the Democratic primary between incumbent U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman and former city Comptroller Brad Lander — for a district so solidly blue that the June primary is considered its deciding election — both candidates have made the Trump administration's treatment of migrants at 26 Federal Plaza a feature of their campaigns, but with decidedly different approaches.
Goldman — an heir to the Levi Strauss denim fortune and former prosecutor who was lead counsel for President Donald Trump’s first impeachment — has approached the topic with a lawyerly bent that leverages the power of his office.
He sued the administration to open immigration detention centers to members of Congress, conducts oversight visits and turned his office across the street into what he's called a triage center that connects immigrants with advocacy groups and legal services.
After a recent visit, Goldman credited his oversight work as a reason conditions at a holding facility inside the building have improved.
“What you see from our multipronged approach is the way that I push back, which is not performative, but it is substantive,” he told The Associated Press outside 26 Federal Plaza after he toured the detention center that is closed to the public.
Meanwhile, Lander — a progressive city government stalwart who is running with the support of Mayor Zohran Mamdani — has acted as protester and court observer, watching hearings and attempting to accompany immigrants out of the building past masked federal agents.
His efforts have gotten him arrested twice, the most recent headed to a trial scheduled to take place just before the primary.
“I would characterize his oversight function as strongly worded letters," Lander told AP when asked about Goldman's approach. “And my oversight function is: Show up with hundreds of your neighbors and bear witness and accompany people and demand access and stay until they give it to you or they arrest you.”
Lander's first arrest happened last year when he linked arms with a person authorities were attempting to detain in the hallway outside the court. Lander was running for mayor at the time, and the arrest gave his campaign a jolt of excitement at a time when Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo were considered the front-runners in the race.
A few months later, after losing the mayoral primary but not long before launching his congressional campaign, Lander was arrested again during a large protest at the building and hit with a misdemeanor obstruction charge.
But instead of accepting a deal that would have made the case go away in six months, Lander instead opted to go to trial. He said the case would extract information about the federal government's immigration enforcement efforts at the building.
Goldman dismissed Lander's efforts as performative.
"I don't understand why someone would reject a dismissal of a case so that he can have a public trial, ostensibly to ask for information that I could provide him whenever he wanted because I have the answers from doing my oversight,” Goldman said.
This week, Lander returned to 26 Federal Plaza to sit in on hearings. But just before entering the building, his team got word that federal agents were lingering outside an immigration hearing at a different federal courtroom in a building across the street. He raced over and eventually found the agents, who were wearing masks and milling around in the court's waiting room.
“The challenge is trying to figure out who they're going to arrest,” Lander said, popping out of the hearing, where he sat in a back row and took notes. After a while, the agents walked away from the hearing room, down a hallway and exited the floor. It was not clear why they left.
“Maybe we have different styles," Lander said of his opponent after the agents departed. He later went back across the street and filmed a campaign video in front of 26 Federal Plaza.
FILE - Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., left, speaks to the federal agents at the Jacob K. Javits federal building, June 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
FILE - New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and FBI agents outside federal immigration court, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova, File)
FILE - Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol, July 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)
Candidate for U.S. Congress Brad Lander appears outside a Federal Immigration Courtroom, in New York, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
