Berger Paints Barbados Ltd.

7 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 who buy the paints at wholesale prices and sell them to retail buyers nearer to where they are. BPBL’s customers comprise professional and non-professional buyers, as Duguid explains. “Professional buyers include hardware stores, general contractors, painters, and government agencies while non-professional ones are mostly homeowners and hobbyists.” More recently, in 2019, the company expanded into the automotive paints sector, which Duguid says is another market and income stream the company is keen on exploiting. While these plans were well underway, the recent pandemic severely curtailed these efforts, slowing down the company’s expansion plans due to supply chain constraints. “(The supply chain issue) remains a challenge not only for us but for many