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Bottling company secures lucrative contract to export to US market

Posted by CaribShout on October 11, 2009 at 12:05pm

ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 11, 2009 (CUOPM) – Days after the Office of the Prime Minister reported that St, Kitts and Nevis is the leading exporter of goods and services in the OECS and Barbaods to the United States market, a local manufacturer has announced the company has secured a contract to bottle Guzzler and a citrus punch for the American Beverage Corporation. The contract is expected to increase exports of St. Kitts and Nevis products to the United States as the St. Kitts Bottling Company was not among the companies exporting to the American market in 2008 and for the first seven months of this year. The St. Kitts Bottling Company’s CEO, Mr. Ancel Ramesh Sookhai as saying that the agreement with the American Beverage Corporation is a three year contract. “The first year we’re expected to do 600,000 cases...the second year 720,000 and the third year a million cases. The CEO said that the Bottling Company had been asked to bid of the ABC contract earlier in the year. It was awarded in June and came into effect in September. “We’ve been creating a reputation for ourselves in the region as being the top in quality in the English-Caribbean from Coca-Cola Assessment, and we’ve been granted a HACCP certification. In fact we got this in April of 2008,” said Sookhai. HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that addresses physical, chemical, and biological hazards as a means of prevention rather than finished product inspection. Mr. Sookhai said Friday that that the Bottling Company was granted the bid based not just on cost, but also on the reliability and quality of its products and the strength of its management team to produce and meet expectations. For the past six months, the St. Kitts Bottling Company’s Coke product has been ranked by Coca Cola as the thirteen best of the sixty-one plants in the Caribbean and South America, and as number one in the English-speaking Caribbean. The SKBC has also in the past six months ranked between two and six in packaging in both the region and the English-speaking Caribbean.
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