BCCI welcome Converse Store

Bridgetown.

  The Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has welcome the establishment of a  store seling brand name Converse shoes store in Norman Centre, Bridgetown, saying that it is a sign that foreign investors still have confidence in Barbados’ economy.

President of the B CCI Lalu Vaswani told the opening ceremony that such investments illustrated to investors, especially those overseas, that Barbados was still a stable economy in which foreign companies can invest.

He said the company’s story resonated in more ways than one with the Bridgetown, Barbados brand.

“Like Converse, the business community in Barbados, and Bridgetown particularly, experiences periods of prosperity and periods of subsistence,” Vaswani said.

He noted that while other brands and economies collapsed under the periods of uncertainty, both Converse and Bridgetown stayed the course. Lalu_Vaswani_Chamber_of_Commerce-450x350