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BAHAMAS-based bottled water companies are facing stiff foreign competition, the head of one leading producer telling Tribune Business yesterday that high electricity costs, 15 per cent up over last year, was another major challenge.
ORGANISERS behind the Islands of the World Fashion Showcase will next month launch an online boutique/label designed to promote the wares of Bahamian designers to the world, telling Tribune Business yesterday that 50 per cent of those exhibiting at their upcoming show were from this nation.
AIR arrivals to the Bahamas are likely to match 2008 pre-recession levels "in six months at the pace we're going", the director-general of tourism said yesterday, telling Tribune Business that the extension of the 'Air Credit' promotion three weeks ago had generated bookings equivalent to almost 6,000 stopover arrivals.
BAHAMASAIR expects to fully take over servicing Vision Airlines' Grand Bahama routes in December 2012 as part of a two-phased arrangement, the airline's managing director told Tribune Business yesterday, adding that the state-owned carrier was holding its own on domestic routes with load factors averaging in the high 60 per cents.
THE Government last night released preliminary estimates showing the Bahamian economy's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 1.6 per cent in 2011, based on constant prices, despite household spending decreasing by 2 per cent.
THE Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation (BCCEC) has elected I. Chester Cooper, BAF Financial's president and chief executive, as its new chairman, and also chosen a new Board.
MANY small and medium-sized Bahamas-based hotels, especially those in the Family Islands, can now take advantage of volume purchase discounts generating savings of up to 20 per cent, placing them on the same footing as chains and large resorts.
MR PROLE was a greying, middle-aged English literature teacher who taught me in the 11th grade. He stopped me one afternoon in the school's walkway, stroked his short beard and told me some words that I have never forgotten. "You are a good writer," he said. Even though English language and literature had always been strong subjects for me, his words were enough to give me the confidence, even to this day, that I needed. I could influence others with the written word.
ROYALSTAR Assurance's $41.58 million capital base has given it an acquisition 'war chest', its managing director disclosing to Tribune Business that an attempted purchase in the Cayman Islands last year failed to "come off" due to differences over valuation.
BUSINESS owners impacted by the New Providence Road Improvement Project yesterday said they were still waiting to see what sort of compensation they would receive after completing the Ministry of Finance's survey, one telling Tribune Business he felt the move may have simply been a "gimmick".
TRADE union executives yesterday reiterated that former City Markets employees cannot be left in "limbo" while a deal for the sale of the struggling food store chain is worked out.
THE Bahamas-based oil explorer that has been rocked by Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham's assertion that he would not permit exploration/drilling in this nation if returned to office moved to further calm the international markets yesterday, saying it had "exceeded" all obligations required to obtain a further three-year renewal of its licences.
A LEADING investment banker yesterday said Bahamian share prices had "bottomed" and that the market was starting to "rebound", with collective trading volumes for all BISX-listed securities up 71.4 per cent year-over-year in the 2012 first quarter.
BAHAMAS Waste has submitted bids for the multi-million dollar Pinewood Gardens and Gladstone Road wastewater treatment plants in a move to expand its service lines, Tribune Business was told yesterday, with the BISX-listed company projecting a 34.4 per cent net income increase for 2012.
LIGHTBOURN Trading, while confirming to Tribune Business that it was in negotiations to acquire the former City Markets head office and warehouse complex, yesterday indicated no deal had been sealed, and that it would either be "building or buying" depending on whether or not it successfully closed.
AML Foods chairman yesterday said its efforts to acquire City Markets' remaining business fell apart because the latter's principal, Mark Finlayson, "kept changing the terms of the deal" on a daily basis, and had nothing to do with the BISX-listed food retail group refusing to take on the chain's staff.
THE Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) yesterday said it had invested just over $1 million on its retail roll-out to-date, and seen sales increase at all the five completed outlets.
GRAYCLIFF's boutique airport lounge at Cincinnati Airport could be completed by this June, a company spokesperson said yesterday, telling Tribune Business that discussions on expanding the concept to several other airports within the US were in the final stages.
GB Power minimises $4.7m recovery effect By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC) has received regulatory approval to minimise the consumer impact of recovering a $4.7 million impairment charge by spreading it out o
THE Paradise Island-based Club Land'Or resort is facing a winding-up petition in the Supreme Court, as a former employee bids to secure compensation she claims is due to her from the property.
BAHAMIAN wholesaler Lightbourn Trading is the party in negotiations to acquire the former City Markets head office and warehouse complex from the supermarket chain's staff pension fund, Tribune Business can reveal, with the Finlayson family hoping to exit majority ownership of the latter "by the end of this week".
DESPITE a 134.8 per cent year-over-year net income increase to $461,181, Bahamas Waste's managing director has revealed that results for 2011 were "still not as good as we had expected", with some business categories underperforming internal expectations.
THE Bahamas' lead World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiator "can't imagine" that the next government would fail to complete the process of achieving full membership, arguing that this was vital to preventing other nations from "abusing" this country and its private sector.
QUESTIONS about ethical and moral behaviour in leadership are probably being asked around the country, particularly as we prepare for the electoral process.
THE 14-property Nassau/Paradise Island hotel industry last night reported an 8 per cent year-over-year room revenue increase for March 2012, with average daily room rates (ADRs) and occupancies both up on 2011 levels.