Small but Salient

Tomas Fuentes Benitez, a Shanghai-based Argentine entrepreneur in his 30s, has not stopped working despite the recent COVID-19 resurgence in the city. For Benitez, the pandemic brings both opportunities and challenges.

With an interest in China, Benitez completed a master’s degree program at Tsinghua University in 2016. Great market demand and increasingly health conscious Chinese consumers inspired him. In 2019, he cooperated with a food plant in Shanghai to establish his own healthy snack brand Stokes, with the products ranging from beef slices to potato chips. To date,