Business View Caribbean | November 2020

77 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN NOVEMBER 2020 Clients can now choose from smaller sized items and orders, which also serves a niche market in the wake of COVID. New partnerships have been built, including with Devon House Ice Cream, the owners of Scoops Unlimited ice cream parlours that are opening locations throughout Jamaica.“They buy my White Chocolate Cheesecake, which is one of my top-selling items, to serve in their stores so that’s a pretty good relationship,” says Smith. “Because of COVID, we’ve had to change our direction in such a way to maintain the survival of the company.” From a dream to reality, Smith has put her all into the building of the Chocolate Dreams brand and she isn’t about to let a pandemic put out her flame. “It’s a woman-owned company and, to be honest, I think I’ve done a pretty good job over the last 17 years with the way I started,” she says. “We have pivoted into what we are doing now and we are going to try and regrow again. After all, it isn’t the first time Chocolate Dreams has faced a setback. I’ve had a fire where my CHOCOLATE DREAMS