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Reply to "GuySuCo gains access to new markets in Italy, Canada, USA – Board"

caribny posted:
ba$eman posted:
 

This banna talk for talk sake and don't go beyond scratching the surface. 

Another is to develop the local confectionery and beverage industry with an eye on export. 

If Guyana cannot create a demand for refined sugar why will they create a demand for candies and juices?  In fact Guyana struggles to market is branded rums, even though they win awards every where.

Guyanese, unlike Jamaicans, don't have a clue about creating a national brand image.  I bet f El Dorado was marketed as a Jamaican rum the demand would be so huge that they wouldn't be able to supply.

So let us deal with that problem. Guyana has no national image, and outside of Guyana, and the islands where Guyanese swarm to like unwanted locusts, no one can even image what a Guyanese is.

You do know that no one in the Eastern Caribbean makes refined sugar.  You do know that CARICOM has negotiated with the cruise lines deals for them to source some of their supplies from within CARICOM.

You have hotel chains like Sandals which can be markets.

No. You prefer bulk sugar sold at one third of the price that it costs to produce it, and the tax payers  be burdened to sustain the jobs of a dying breed of cane cutters. In fact every season brings with it problems in even finding people to cut cane!

There are point I agree and some I disagree with you.  I agree, Guyana is way behind Jamaica when it comes to developing its brands. Jamaica actually invest in building their brands with reps all over the world.  This is an area the PNC may want to explore.

On the issue of markets for refined sugar vs confectioneries, I don't agree, it's not the same.  However, unless you invest in building the brands, it ain't going to happen.  How come Grace (Jamaican) product are all over the WI stores and even in some Walmart?

On Mauritius being "rude", well someone was asleep at the switch and the brand was registered and taken.  So they are not rude.  Maybe Guyana has to acquire the license and use the name.  Not sure it matters at this point.  Maybe Guyana can brand theirs El Dorado (golden crystals)!

I agree with you Guyana has done a poor job building it's brands.  And this is non-partisan as both the PNC and PPP fell short here!  The problem I think, Guyanese are small thinkers and are excited over little things and hallow victories.

Our energies are focused on who will dominate who and who will benefit at the expense of who.  Nothing about the Guyanese mindset is about Guyana and what's good for Guyana.  It all about the PPP and the PNC constituencies.  It's a zero-sum game, we see it as one up and the other down.  And this clouds every issue and decision and nothing substantive ever happens.  I don't see this changing in our lifetime.  The PNC of today has embraced the tradition.

FM
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