1966
- The New Harbour Cold Store
Installed in 1966 at its new Harbour Industrial Park site, the Company
began supplying cold storage facilities at the Bridgetown Port. Its storage
capacity was 1,200 tones of refrigerated cargo, 200 tones chilled cargo
and 1,000 tones frozen cargo for a free period of 21 days. Food stored
in these cold storage facilities was palletized or placed in baskets.
1968
- New Location
In 1968 ice cream manufacturer was then discontinued at Bay Street and
transferred to the new factory at Harbour Industrial Park.
1976
- New Name
On 28 December, 1976 the Company changed its name to BICO LIMITED.
1979
- Unique Business
THE BARBADOS ICE COMPANY subsequently became a sub contractor for the
Barbados Port Authority, established by Government in January 1979, forming
a collaboration which has worked well for both sides. This service is
considered unique, for elsewhere in the Caribbean cold storage is located
outside the Port, which requires that Customs clearance and other formalities
be completed before products can be taken to the refrigeration area.
1979
to the Present
In recent times, the entire range of ice cream products has been rationalized
and packaging re-designed whilst retaining the quality for which BICO
is famous. Party Pak 5 litre containers are available in 33 flavours.
The Company is no longer a manufacturer of ice. Its cold Storage capacity
is now 750,000 cubic feet ranging from chilled to deep frozen temperatures.
BICO ice cream is well known and enjoyed throughout the Caribbean and is exported to nine territories including Antigua, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Trinidad and Tobago.
Since
1998 a programme in restructuring has been in progress in order to prepare
the Company for trade liberalization and to make all operations more efficient
in the face of increasing competition. The company has now become HAACP
(Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) compliant (i.e. a system
that manages the risk associated with food safety aspects of production).BICO
is a public Company listed on the Securities Exchange of Barbados with
over 350 shareholders.
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