Demerara Distillers Limited, a conglomerate group comprising several local and overseas companies with manufacturing, trading, banking and trust relationships in Guyana, the region, North America and Europe as well as a joint venture in India and associated companies in Guyana and Jamaica, will be holding its annual general meeting this coming Friday, April 27. When the shareholders meet at the company’s Diamond Complex on the East Bank of Demerara, they will consider, among other routine items, an impressive if not entirely informative annual report containing the financial statements of the parent as well as its subsidiaries.
Measured by growth in turnover, it was not such a good year either for the parent (2.2% compared with 11.3% in 2010),