Workshop 1: How to create a Successful Agribusiness Company at The Caribbean-Pacific Agri-Food Forum 2015 (CPAF2015) taking place 2-6 November in Barbados with support from the Intra-ACP Agricultural Policy programme, organized in partnership with the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). http://www.cta.int/en/news/caribbean-pacific-agri-food-forum.html

1. Workshop 1:
How to create a successful agri-business
Gopex International N.V.
2 november 2015
Barbados, Bridgetown
Radjen Bisessar
Quality Manager

2. Gopex International

3. Swot- analysis
• Strenghts
• Good business reputation
• A certified company (ISO 22000 en HACCP)
• Over 60% own crops
• Food safe fruit and vegetables. (final stage Global G.A.P. certification)
• Strong management team
• Agricultural areas with all facilities (60 ha.)
• Know how and skills
• Weaknesses
• Limited production unit
• Lack of good labours (most for the field work)
• Lack of financial resources
• (loans with very high interest rates)
• Opportunities
• Enter new and international markets.
• Innovative technologies in business management
• Threats
• Climate change
• Currency fluctuations ( loans with very high interest rates)
• Not favorable government desicions

4. Okra

5. Cabbage

6. Cabbage 2

7. Fruits

8. Pineapple

9. KFC Area

10. Fruit-mix

11. Fruit-mix

12. Processed vegetables

13. Spraying by plane

14. From wild forest to agri-business

15. Irrigation

16. Video

17. Thank you…