Ministry of Industry, International Business, Commerce, and Small Business Development - Barbados - page 7

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has recently increased its number of employees from
140, two years ago, to 188, and budgeted monies for
employee training. “We have bucked the trend of a hir-
ing freeze across the public sector,” Tudor declares.
“We’ve hired the best people that we could from the
private sector. We’ve invested in human capital and in
the growth of every employee. And we are now reaping
the benefits of very high employee engagement with
a lot of innovation coming from the staff. Our produc-
tivity has increased significantly; the finances of the
corporation have turned around significantly; we have
gone from an operating deficit of 20 percent down to
an operating deficit of two percent. And we have ad-
vanced the cause of food innovation using the talents
of our colleagues.”
In order to get the word out on BADMC’s programs
and products, the agency participates in all the ma-
jor trade shows in Barbados related to agriculture and
manufacturing. “And, most recently, we have started