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INNOVATORS<br />
Hadco invests<br />
$35 million<br />
in new ice<br />
cream plant<br />
WORDS By: natalie dookie<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY courtesy: hadco ltd<br />
The HADCO Group is the largest importer and distributor of ice cream<br />
products in <strong>Trinidad</strong> and <strong>Tobago</strong>, representing premium brands such<br />
as Häagen-Dazs, Breyers, Nestlé, and Ben and Jerry’s. So it comes as no<br />
surprise that the Group is adding ice cream manufacturing to its list of<br />
achievements, with the development of a $35 million ice cream production plant.<br />
Started in 1992 by three brothers, Robert, Joseph and John Hadad, the Group<br />
Co-Chief Executive Officers, the HADCO Group now consists of five divisions and 12<br />
subsidiaries, representing 154 different brands. Employing more than 800 people,<br />
the Group has a wide reach, exporting across 12 Caribbean markets from its base<br />
in <strong>Trinidad</strong>.<br />
No stranger to manufacturing and innovation, HADCO recently bought and<br />
expanded a local recycling plant which converts used cooking oil into a feeder for<br />
biofuel; and its subsidiary, Imanex Limited, is already the largest manufacturer of ice<br />
cream cones in the Caribbean. Having successfully produced the Happy Time wafer<br />
cone for the past 20 years, HADCO is adding new machines to produce sugar and<br />
waffle cones. It hopes to secure 50 per cent of the regional ice cream cone market<br />
with the introduction of these new products.<br />
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<strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
and <strong>Tobago</strong> Chamber<br />
of Industry and Commerce<br />
www.chamber.org.tt/contact-magazine
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