The Bermudez Biscuit Company Ltd. is a Trinidadian company located in Mount Lambert
Trinidad and Tobago
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. Founded by Venezuelan brothers Jose Rafael and Jose Angel Bermudez, who migrated from Venezuela to the nearby
Port of Spain
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. Jose Rafael fascinated by technology travelled to Paris for the 1900 World Fair, where he stumbled upon an innovative wood burning biscuit oven. He returned to Trinidad with the contraption and set about with his brother to produce "salt biscuits". The products are the famous round white, wholewheat, multigrain Crix including the Crix biscuit-tins and Dixee crackers, Domino chocolate, vanilla, strawberry sweet biscuits and others. Crix crackers (biscuits in local parlance) are fondly called the "vital supplies" after a successful marketing campaign. The company has been in operation for more than 30 years.
Bermudez is a "key food processor" in the Eastern
Caribbean
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according to the
United States Department of Agriculture
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The company also operates in
Barbados
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, chiefly as
WIBISCO
The West India Biscuit Company better known as WIBISCO ("wihh-bis-co") () is a company located in Barbados, and is subsidiary of the Trinidad and Tobago-based Bermudez group as of 2007. The products made are biscuits, crackers, cookies etc. The ...
and also in
Jamaica
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.
[Caribbean Trade and Development Report 2005]
Chapter V
Bermudez is in a business family of Holiday Snacks, Kiss and a few others.
References
External links
Bermudez Caribbean GroupNo major changes on cards for WIBISCOBiscuit buyout
Food and drink companies of Trinidad and Tobago
Brands of Trinidad and Tobago
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