Business View Caribbean | September 2022

29 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 9, ISSUE 9 DA I RY INDUSTR I ES JAMA I CA L IMI TED category, DIJL are ready and willing to offer contract manufacturing services. They are also focused on expanding capabilities for producing additional products within the category to align with industry trends. In the cultured category, for example, they recently added sour cream and are currently working on items such as cream cheese and other cultured products. Walker notes, “We have also consolidated a partnership with Nestlé Jamaica. We are producing dairy products for them and they are quite satisfied with our collaboration. We expect that this will expand over time. We continue to show our capabilities and willingness to Ukraine have certainly presented challenges for us, but it has also reinforced the importance of local manufacturing and to further convince us that we need to invest more in local manufacturing to ensure we can secure our food supplies, to present opportunities for Jamaicans to earn from the industry, and also to provide revenue into the government’s coffers.” Over the last 12 months, Dairy Industries Jamaica have doubled their capacity for production of cultured products, to give them the capacity to offer services to other firms in the industry. For instance, if someone wants to do a private label within the cultured products