48 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN APRIL 2021 www.pepesmkt.com 868-645-7373 gerard.torresgj@gmail.com sean@pepesmkt.com Fast and reliable exports of healthy food throughout the Caribbean. • We Supply Bulk & Prepackaged Products • We Can Supply Customizable Labels for the Retail Market fully automated. Meanwhile, we’re looking for new export markets but focusing on our core products. We’re also going heavy into our social media and YouTube. We’ll be doing cooking videos with our employees’ kids; they are our future customers, so get them now.” About 80 percent of the company’s employees are women. Balgobin admits that in the sales department alone, which encompasses sales personnel, supermarket merchandizers, retail shops, and the restaurant, there are only two men including himself. It’s similar for the company’s production, manufacturing, distribution, and re-packaging departments. The production department also serves as an ‘ad-hoc’ R & D division, developing ideas that are then tested in the lab. Currently in development is an innovative whole grain product that has never been done before. The economy may have led to a recent downsize but according to Balgobin, “The company is still a happy place to work.
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