76 July 2016 - Business View Caribbean
Cavalier’s reputation has put it among the four or five
contractors in the Bahamas capable of working on
$10 million to $20 million jobs, but D´Alewyn said the
company has worked hard recently to establish itself
as a go-to option for smaller projects as well – eschew-
ing the notion that it would either not be interested
in smaller endeavors, or would be too costly for those
looking to have work done.
A new website – CavalierBahamas.com – has been
put together, too, as means of projecting a fresher cor-
porate look and a revamped image.
“We’re trying to let people know that we do smaller
stuff. Renovation work. Rather than just big luxury
homes and hotels and condominium buildings,” he
said. “We’re trying to let people know that we actually
do and have done smaller commercial projects. We’re
in discussions with someone right now about a $2 mil-
lion office block. We’re a multi-faceted business and
not just geared to the high stuff.
“You’ve got to kind of push that out yourself. We’ve got
a fairly extensive network of architects and people that
we deal with quite a lot. It’s a question of having lunch
with them and leveraging those networks to let them
know, if they come across projects like that and they’re
putting together a bid list for projects of that nature,
that they shouldn’t necessarily exclude us.”
Elsewhere, a significant change to the business land-
scape has come in the form of a nationwide value-
added tax that took effect on Jan. 1 and is prompting
