This coun­try’s largest dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­ny, the Bry­dens Group, re­cent­ly cel­e­brat­ed be­ing in busi­ness for 100 years, with its top ex­ec­u­tives point­ing to greater ex­pan­sion and growth over the next 100.

On Fri­day 27th Oc­to­ber 2023, the Bry­dens Group marked its 100th An­niver­sary with a spe­cial cel­e­bra­tion for its em­ploy­ees. Decked out in an­niver­sary po­los, Bry­dens’ staff got to­geth­er at the com­pa­ny’s San Juan com­pound to ring in the cen­ten­ni­al mile­stone with food, drink and prizes.

“Reach­ing such a tremen­dous mile­stone re­flects the dri­ve and pas­sion of the peo­ple in the Bry­dens Group, who col­lec­tive­ly serve hun­dreds of thou­sands of cus­tomers every year,” said Richard Pan­do­hie, Se­prod and Bry­den’s Group Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer.

“Our em­ploy­ees are the heart of the or­gan­i­sa­tion, em­body­ing the cus­tomer-first, peo­ple-cen­tred ap­proach for which Bry­dens is known and loved. On this ma­jor an­niver­sary, we want­ed to show ap­pre­ci­a­tion to all of the tal­ent­ed peo­ple who have con­tributed to our suc­cess,” the Bry­dens Group CEO stat­ed.

And Bry­dens Group Deputy Chair­man, Michael Cony­ers, as­sert­ed:

“We con­tin­ue to be a for­mi­da­ble dis­tri­b­u­tion part­ner of choice for in­ter­na­tion­al brands and, as we ex­pand our foot­print be­yond our lo­cal shores, we are con­fi­dent that our rep­u­ta­tion for trust and in­tegri­ty will open new re­gion­al growth op­por­tu­ni­ties for us.”

Ac­quired in June 2022 by the Se­prod Group of Ja­maica, the Bry­dens Group now em­ploys over 1,500 peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go. All em­ploy­ees had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to take part in a com­pa­ny lot­tery where 100 lucky win­ners won prizes con­tributed from across the Group. 

The five big prizes in­clud­ed trips to Ja­maica, Bar­ba­dos, To­ba­go, a Hy­att Week­end Stay­ca­tion and TT$10,000 in cash. Oth­er prizes were val­ued at $500 each. Em­ploy­ees were award­ed tick­ets to the lot­tery based on their tenure, so those who had served the com­pa­ny longest had the high­est chances of win­ning big.

With a cen­tu­ry of his­to­ry be­hind its name, the Bry­den’s Group be­gan busi­ness in Trinidad and To­ba­go in Oc­to­ber 1923 when William Bry­den, the sec­ond son of Arthur Syd­ney Bry­den, moved to Trinidad to form a branch of his fa­ther’s busi­ness.

‘A.S. Bry­den and Sons’ has since evolved in­to the dy­nam­ic Bry­den's Group of to­day, made up of sev­er­al sub­sidiaries in­clud­ing Bry­den pi, F.T. Far­fan, Fran­co Trad­ing & Dis­tri­b­u­tion Lim­it­ed and Mi­con Mar­ket­ing.

About The Bry­dens Group

In 2023, The Bry­dens Group cel­e­brates its 100-year lega­cy of pro­vid­ing ex­cep­tion­al ser­vice in Trinidad & To­ba­go as a pre­ferred sup­pli­er and dis­tri­b­u­tion part­ner. Ac­quired in June 2022 by the Se­prod Group of Ja­maica, the Bry­dens Group is part of an un­matched re­gion­al gi­ant com­pris­ing a unique port­fo­lio of in­ter­ests with lim­it­less growth po­ten­tial.

The Bry­dens Group Sub­sidiaries in­clude:

●   A.S. Bry­den & Sons (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed – dis­trib­u­tor of in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned brands in the fol­low­ing cat­e­gories: (i) Pre­mi­um Bev­er­ages, (ii) Food & Gro­cery (iii) Hard­ware & House­wares

●   Bry­den pi – a re­gion­al dis­trib­u­tor of food, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, and health care items

●   F.T. Far­fan – a sup­pli­er of high-qual­i­ty brands in Agri­cul­ture, Au­to­mo­tive, Con­struc­tion, Man­u­fac­tur­ing, Min­ing & Quar­ry­ing, and Ma­rine In­dus­tries

●   Fran­co Trad­ing & Dis­tri­b­u­tion Lim­it­ed – a light man­u­fac­tur­ing and co-pack­ing en­ti­ty

●   Mi­con Mar­ket­ing – a dis­trib­u­tor of food & gro­cery, bak­ery, and house care prod­ucts.