Benjamin Niles shares how Apex Construction will continue to serve the middle class

05/29/19 • 27 min

Real Estate development company Apex Construction Inc. started operations in 1988 in the midst of a middle-class home building explosion in Barbados. Today 30 years on the company is still intensely focused on the market it wanted to serve back then -. the typical middle-class Barbadian family with dreams of owning an affordable and finished home. In this week’s episode of ‘Backstage with Bajan Brands’, Managing Director of Apex, Benjamin Niles, talks to me about how they intend to keep driving the cost of homes down to keep serving that market. Talk about holding a position.

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Shyam and Varsha Mahtani on how Harmony store thrives

If you’ve ever shopped in the commercial centre of Barbados’ capital Bridgetown, you may be familiar with the two often contrasted and most popular streets. Broad Street, considered more ‘high brow’ and Swan Street, known for one-door bargain shops.

Well, Harmony a small ladies clothing retail store was an anomaly on Swan Street when I discovered it a decade ago with its attractive storefront, walkable layout, carpeted dressing room, knowledgeable and attractively uniformed store assistants. It was like high street retail that didn’t yet really exist on the high street in Bridgetown at the time.

So I was excited to sit down with the co-owners Shyam and Varsha Mahtani just a few weeks after the launch of their second store at Sheraton Mall in Christ Church. It’s been a busy year for the husband and wife team with the new store, renovations to the main store, a 50th anniversary celebration and a rebrand. In this 5th episode of ‘Backstage with Bajan Brands’, they walk me through what has kept Harmony thriving.