Prestige Manufacturing working with Canadian experts to meet US food safety regulations

Prestige CEO Ram Prashad with a display of products at the company’s Eccles factory

More than forty years after Pandit Bhola Ojah pioneered a family business selling cooking spices from door to door in villages on the West Coast Deme-rara, his grandson, Ram Prashad, is keeping the tradition alive.

More than that, the contemporary manifestation of the now deceased Pandit’s pioneering initiative, Prestige Manufacturing and Bottling Enterprises, is thriving at its new home, Industrial Site, Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

The brand name Prestige is more than 20 years old and seeks to symbolise the high standards to which Prashad says the enterprise