The Barbados Ice Cream Company Ltd. (BICO) () is the leading
Barbadian manufacturer of
frozen desserts
Dessert is a course that concludes a meal. The course consists of sweet foods, such as confections, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine and liqueur. In some parts of the world, such as much of Greece and West Africa, and most parts of ...
. The company was started in December 1901, as the Barbados Ice Company Limited, which made
ice
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. It is now known as BICO. BICO started making
ice cream
Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It may be made from milk or cream and is flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit such as ...
in 1949. It is located near the
Harbour Port Office park in
Bridgetown
Bridgetown (UN/LOCODE: BB BGI) is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Formerly The Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael. Bridgetown is sometimes locally referred to as "The Ci ...
.
History
The Barbados Ice Company was formed as the result of a merger between two ice-making companies in 1901. The new company was engaged exclusively in ice manufacture until 1910, when it decided to extend its facilities. The expansion was made for a cold storage department. In 1949, it expanded again and began manufacturing ice cream. Subsequently, in 1967, it became a subcontractor for the Barbados Port Authority. In 1976, the Barbados Ice Company changed its name to BICO. Since then BICO has discontinued its production of ice.
2007 to present
Presently, it is a public limited company owned by over 350 shareholders, earning the majority of its revenue from its ice cream sales.
In June 2007, the company announced that it had completed renovations on freezer facilities, and the company expanded their previous of storage space to just under of storage space. The new freezer space gives the BICO company one of the largest, if not the largest, public cold storage facility in the Caribbean region.
In August 2009, the BICO manufacturing plant was destroyed by a fire causing the company to outsource operations to two Canadian-based frozen dairy manufacturers. Meanwhile, ongoing delays have caused the BICO leadership to continue pressing the company's insurers to disburse funds to undertake rebuilding the BICO factory.
Products
BICO makes the following
products
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:
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Ice Cream
Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It may be made from milk or cream and is flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit such as ...
*Valupak
*Classic
*Perfect Balance
*Tropical Flavors
*Double Delight
*Old Fashioned
*Sherbet
*Frozen Yogurt
*Soycream
*Novelties
*Brik Ice Cream Sandwich
*Bicone
*Yocone
*Lollies
The
company also exports to other
Caribbean islands as well. It is listed on the
Barbados Stock Exchange
The Barbados Stock Exchange or BSE is Barbados' main stock exchange. Its headquarters are in the capital-city Bridgetown. The body was established in 1987 by the Parliament of Barbados as the Securities Exchange of Barbados (SEB), and remained ...
.
See also
*
List of ice companies
This is a list of ice companies. Ice companies manufacture and market ice and are involved in the ice trade. Some ice companies manufacture and market dry ice.
Ice companies
* American Ice Company – a business that manufactured and deliv ...
References
External links
BICO Ice Cream- ''Official website''
Food and drink companies of Barbados
Ice cream brands
Drink companies of Barbados
Companies based in Bridgetown
Ice companies
Barbadian brands
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