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Local sugar supplies … GuySuCo increases number of distributors

Sep 28, 2010 News

Following continuous complaints about shortages in the local market, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) says that it has put new measures in place to ensure availability across the country.
According to the Corporation yesterday, systems are being put in place that will see more distributors in place.
With the Corporation currently servicing 131 customers with direct sugar supplies from designated bagging estates, almost 90 more distributors will be added to the list. Long time distributors will also see a reduced quota, GuySuCo’s officials, confirmed yesterday.
According to the Corporation yesterday, over the past two years it has constantly received requests for new allocation of quotas.
“In the interest of ensuring an equitable supply of sugar countrywide and to give favourable consideration to the new requests, the Corporation has reviewed its current system with a view to re-distributing to new quota holders.  This will take effect from Friday.
Special consideration will be made to ensure there is a permanent presence of wholesalers in all the regions across the country.”
The Corporation said that the drive to improve the presence of GuySuCo’s sugar is in response to consumers nationwide.  “Likewise the distribution network of the packaged sugar will also be enhanced. This effort is also in-keeping with the Corporation’s strategy to migrate the retail sales from bagged sugar to our pre-packaged brands in sizes ranging from 500 grams to 10 kg.”
GuySuCo assured yesterday that processors, bakers and other industrial users will continue to be serviced with bagged sizes.
“The move is ahead of the anticipated increase in production of value-added sugar from the “Enmore Packaging Plant”. Our distributors have adequate supplies of Demerara Gold to meet local demand.”
In the past, there have been complaints from local consumers of sugar shortage on the local market but GuySuCo had assured that there were enough. There have been suspicions that significant quantity of the sugar supplied to local distributors was smuggled out of Guyana, especially to neighbouring Suriname.

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