WIBISCO

WIBISCO building (in Bridgetown)

The West India Biscuit Company better known as WIBISCO ("wihh-bis-co") (BSE: WIB) is a company located in Barbados, and is subsidiary of the Trinidad and Tobago-based Bermudez group as of 2007.[1] The products made are biscuits, crackers, cookies etc. The company was listed on the Barbados Stock Exchange. For the year 2006, product sales stood at $16.8 million.[2] While in 2012 profits stood at $53.8 million.[3]

The company is somewhat of a patriotic symbol to some Bajans. The company's brand of biscuits known as Eclipse biscuits is considered a part of the essential Bajan breakfast.

References

  1. ↑ "Bermudez: Wibisco buyout not a hostile takeover". Trinidad and Tobago Guardian newspaper. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  2. ↑ "WIBISCO sales, profits up". Barbados Daily Nation News. Retrieved 2006-07-10.
  3. ↑ "WIBISCO's 2012 profits best ever". Barbados Daily Nation News. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  • E., G. (10 July 2007). "WIBISCO sales, profits up". Nation Newspaper. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 10 March 2010.


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