New in­vestors are not just wel­comed, but are be­ing en­cour­aged to be a part of the Ini­tial Pub­lic Of­fer­ing (IPO) for West In­di­an Traders Ltd.

WITL, a Fast-Mov­ing Con­sumer Goods (FM­CG) whole­sale dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­ny based in San Juan, Trinidad and To­ba­go, opened the IPO on May 18, 2025, with 5,062,500 or­di­nary shares on of­fer at a price of $2.00 per share.

This of­fer­ing, ac­cord­ing to the IPO's prospec­tus, con­sists of 2,700,000 new­ly is­sued shares and 2,362,500 ex­ist­ing shares sold by SL Hold­ings Ltd, which is owned by Sharon and Lind­say Gillette, the lat­ter who is cur­rent­ly chair­man of the WITL board.