Nestlé an­nounced on Ju­ly 2 that it had be­gun a strate­gic re­view of its T&T op­er­a­tions as part of a wider glob­al re­struc­tur­ing. The com­pa­ny said it is ex­plor­ing sev­er­al op­tions for the dairy and juices busi­ness, in­clud­ing a pos­si­ble sale. More than 200 work­ers are em­ployed at its Val­sayn fa­cil­i­ty along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way.

Busi­ness Guardian reached out to sev­er­al busi­ness­es fol­low­ing Nestlé’s an­nounce­ment. While most said it was too ear­ly in the process to in­di­cate whether they would be in­ter­est­ed in ac­quir­ing the busi­ness, Richard Pan­do­hie, the CEO of Se­prod—the Ja­maican con­glom­er­ate which is the par­ent com­pa­ny of T&T’s AS Bry­den & Sons Hold­ings— and Had­co Lim­it­ed group co-CEO John Hadad both said they would re­main open to dis­cus­sions if the op­por­tu­ni­ty aris­es.Pan­do­hie said Se­prod is fa­mil­iar with Nestlé’s op­er­a­tions through pre­vi­ous busi­ness deal­ings.

“Nestlé is an ex­cel­lent or­gan­i­sa­tion and op­er­a­tion that we know well. We have worked with them on var­i­ous projects,” he said.