Business View Caribbean | March 2021

73 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN MARCH 2021 CHATAK FOOD PRODUCTS L IMI TED home shop, known as ‘Little Store’,” says Siddhi. “Little Store Limited is an enterprise of its own, but Chatak Food Production was really born out of the Little Store Limited after demand for my grandmother’s recipes increased. And so did the scale of our production. Over the years we have invested time and energy into creating new products and of course, employing new staff members, mostly from our community.” In 1991, Chatak established its first factory and has since grown to employ more than 150 people, manufacturing and selling over 200 products, including ground spices, rice products, cooking pastes, seasonings, crunchy snacks, condiments and more. Products can be found in all leading supermarkets nationwide, with a customer base of over 400 stores. Sixty percent of products are manufactured locally with materials coming from the crops of Trinidadian farmers. “Some of those raw materials include Pictured Left to Right: Anand Sankar; Vashti Sankar; Siddhi Sankar; Vinayak Sankar