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8 Business View Caribbean Business View Caribbean 9 transparency, as it relates to the goods we produce, is very important to us.” Today, the St. Kitts Bottling company is majority-owned by the TDC Group of Companies, one of the larger gen- eral merchandise companies on St. Kitts and Nevis, which acquired 51 percent of the company shares in 2012. But SKBC still maintains its small-business ethos. “We want people to remember us as always putting the customer first, so customer service is one of our high points. We may not have always gotten it right, but we make the effort, and so I think that we are very close to getting it right.” PREFERRED VENDORS Caribe Industrial Systems Inc. - Caribe Industrial Systems Inc. (CISI) was established in 1977 by War- ren and Donna Gundry as a leader in the distribution of Packaging Equipment and Materials in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Now, as a second generation com- pany, CISI continues to satisfy the packaging needs of many of the world’s leading Food and Beverage, Phar- maceutical, and Industrial Manufacturing companies. Some of the products CISI provides include: tapes, stretch film, steel and plastic strapping, adhesives, plastic pallets, dispensers and sealers, poly shrink film, desicants, labels and ribbons, and bags from world-renowned leaders in their respective industries. CISI also sells and services a broad line of packaging equipment for the consumable products it sells. - www. caribeindustrial.com Alpla Caribe Inc. - www.alpla.com Hyline Label Company Ltd. - www.hylinett.com