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Business View Caribbean
72 September 2015 - Business View Caribbean
of-the-art LED lighting technology products that we’re
developing and just about going into production.”
Today, Caribbean LED Lighting provides its lighting so-
lutions throughout Barbados as well as to countries
across the Caribbean and Latin America, and as far
as the United Kingdom and Canada. It has distribu-
tors on St. Thomas, St. Lucia, Trinidad, St. Kitts, the
Turks & Caicos, Puerto Rico, and Suriname. “Our main
market is the Caribbean region and Central America,
particularly the 14 countries of CARICOM. We’ve also
exported to the U.S. and we have plans to open up
a manufacturing facility, later this year, in Canada to
serve the North American market.”
The company has both commercial and residential
customers. “Our initial customers were business cus-
tomers – large footprint customers with large prem-
ises and large electricity bills,” says Reid. “So, we
started off with the big guys and then we attracted the
small business-size enterprises, and then the residen-
tial side. People working in those large companies saw
the benefits of LED lighting in terms of improved light-
ing and when the managers talked about the money
they’d saved, they wanted it in their homes, too.
Reid gives some examples of how his company’s prod-
ucts are designed to be retrofitted into existing fixtures
as well as to be much more energy-efficient: “We can
replace a four-foot fluorescent tube, which consumes
about 42 watts of electricity, with an 18-watt LED tube
– that’s been one of our biggest sellers. An A19 light
bulb replaces a 60-watt incandescent lamp with a six
or seven-watt LED lamp. Halogen lamps – replacing
50-watt halogens with 5-watt LEDs - that’s where you
get a lot of the 90 percent energy savings.” Caribbean
LED Lighting also offers financing for companies that
wish to purchase its products. “And in every single
