Business View Caribbean | December 2019

40 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN DECEMBER 2019 Managing Director, Francis Saladin Jr. produce and still is to this day. He started getting contacts out of Miami to bring produce from there to supply the supermarkets, restaurants, and hotels here in Aruba”. “He made his first purchase of produce out of Miami and bought a generator. One day they brought a container and parked it out front of our house and he connected it to the generator and used that container as storage. When the next container came in they would take the previous one away and bring in the new one. He didn’t have to invest in a cooler yet, because he was using the shipping containers hooked up to the generator for storage.” Later, Saladin Sr. went into business with a distribution company that was doing a good business with its own facility at that time. After working with them for a couple years he decided to go out on his own, rented a warehouse, and the business continued to grow. Eventually, he bought out his previous partners’ facility when