78 April 2015 - Business View Caribbean
to earn some extra income. And it has turned into a
business. It has grown beyond the hobby stage.”
And with that growth came the realities of meeting ad-
ditional demand.
“We had to think up ways and means by which we
could produce at a faster rate,” she said. “As a hobby,
you use home-based equipment, but once we started
to look at supermarkets we had to think about com-
mercial equipment that could be adapted to manufac-
ture at a faster rate.”
Seven years later, the company still works out of a
small workshop, but it’s totally mechanized and capa-
ble of producing the required products in a timeframe
that corresponds with demand. More distribution be-
yond Trinidad’s borders – across the Caribbean and
even into the United States – has come in the last year
or so, making the enterprise a little more substantial.
The workshop in Santa Cruz, about 60 kilometers from
the estate. Working from Santa Cruz, she said, pro-
vides easier access to the markets for distribution. A
new facility could be on the horizon soon, however, be-
cause Saunders said “we are almost at a maximum”
in terms of what can be accomplished production-wise
in the existing set-up.
But because the product is traditional, not generic, the
growth will not be at all costs.
“We’re hoping to have a factory. That is the aim and
mission,” Saunders said. “We have outgrown our
place and we’re looking at properties, looking at plac-
es where we can have a bigger workshop. A place to
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