Dominic Wyndham-Giddens
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So that is the bulk of sales.
We're 80% hotels, restaurants, and cafes sales.
We then get into supermarkets.
They're not, there's only two supermarket chains in Barbados.
And so we are competing with a lot of international brands.
You can't because of our tourism is high end.
There's every international brand you could think of has come.
The benefit is because of that, we're actually able to create and craft a product.
That is of international standard and even better.
We have now won 25 awards in the UK for our products.
And it gives us the want to say, can we push further?
I mean, we used to import Italian espresso into Barbados.
It's how I learned everything that I know.
But I'm importing an alien culture to my island now.
So why can't I do the reverse?
Well, I guess because, and Susan is very important, as I said, Mandy, my wife and I have been running this company and we bootstrapped from the very beginning.
Your story is very interesting, how you never took on investors.
You have, I think you failed forward sometimes.
You were always on the brink of failing.
And that's sometimes, that's how it happens with entrepreneurs is what happens.