Business View Caribbean | March 2020

44 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN MARCH 2020 www.bdo.com.jm PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS People’s dreams matter to us: our motivation is helping people get to where they want to be – whether that’s our colleagues, our clients or in the communities we are part of. recently embarked-upon improvements and upgrades. “The first one is around building capacity,” he begins. “So, we have installed a new line that will help increase the amount of output. We’re also in the process of finishing some additional warehouse space. One of the challenges that we’ve had, based on our growth, is that we didn’t have sufficient warehouses to house the product that needed to go out. And we are implementing a new ERP (enterprise resource planning) system to support the growth; the current software that we are using doesn’t have the basic type of analytics or data to give us the type of information that we need. We’ll have that by the end of February.” Lifespan also recently hired a new HR Manager, responsible for the company’s 160 employees, plus additional casual workers in the high season. “Our staff is our most important asset,” Davis states. “It’s really a focal point of Lifespan. And one thing that is really important to us is how our staff views the company and how engaged they are – both customer engagement and internal engagement. We have also focused a lot on what we’re doing with our staff in terms of their growth. There are some persons we have actually sent to school, so that they will have a working knowledge in the ways we intend to grow.” In a continuing effort to become more environmentally-friendly, Davis says that the company is adding a turbine generator to its solar farm, which will remove Lifespan from reliance on fossil fuel-generated electricity from the local power company. “We will be cutting our carbon footprint by 60 percent by going that route,” says Williams. Going forward, Davis says that because the new line has increased output, the focus in the near future is on expanding Lifespan’s overseas markets. Williams explains, “We’re looking to grow our export market in the latter part of 2020 and going into 2021. Currently, we export to the Cayman Islands, Barbados, the British