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With 215,000 square kilometres (83,000 sq mi), Guyana is the fourth-smallest country on mainland South America after Uruguay, Suriname and French Guiana. The main economic activities in Guyana are agriculture (production of rice and Demerara sugar ), bauxite mining, gold mining, timber, shrimp fishing and minerals.
On 15 February 2018 NAMILCO and three other local companies alongside elements of the Guyanese Police and Emergency Services, the Guyanese Coast Guard, the Marine Police and the Guyana Energy Agency coordinated a live security exercise under the direction of the Guyana Maritime Administration Department, titled 'Exercise Thunderboom'. [21]
In 1966 D'Aguiar Bros. (D.I.H.) was floated as a public company, and it was merged with Banks Breweries in 1969 to form the present Banks DIH Ltd. [2] Banks DIH was the first company to float shares publicly in Guyana. For a long time the capital market was small, only reaching US$10 in 1992.
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Varun Beverages Limited (VBL) is an Indian multinational company that manufactures, bottles and distributes beverages. It is the largest bottling company of PepsiCo's beverages in the world outside the United States. [3] [4] The company was incorporated in 1995 as a subsidiary of RJ Corp, and named after founder Ravi Jaipuria's son. [5]
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Through his contributions to Guyanese industry, 1983 he was awarded the Cacique Crown of Honour. Komal Samaroo became the new CEO in 2014. [7] In 2021, Samaroo addressed the threat that the Venezuelan border issue has on "Guyana's supply chain for agriculture and other food products to the region, and even further afield". [1]
The extent of Guyana's economic decline in the 1980s was clearly reflected in the performance of the sugar sector. Production levels were halved, from 324,000 tons in 1978 to 168,000 tons in 1988. [8] Guyana exported about 85 percent of its annual sugar output, making sugar the largest source of foreign exchange.