Three years ago A & H Kissoon Group of Companies cut trading ties with the city, closing down its well-known distribution outlet at the corners of Camp and Robb streets and shifting those operations to Industrial Site, Ruimveldt on the southern edge of the capital where its factory operations have been located for half a century.
Managing Director of the Kissoon Group of Companies Hemraj Kissoon believes it was a strategically sound move insofar as it located the company’s manufacturing and distribution facilities in a single place. It has, however, had its price. While the company has been able to retain most of its wholesale customers its walk-ins have fallen off considerably. Industrial Site is—as we say—off the beaten track, at least for those without transportation of their own. In fact, Kissoon says, some of the company’s ‘old faithfuls’ still went to the Camp and Robb streets location looking for the store.
AH&L Kissoon then decided to return to Georgetown, not lock stock and barrel but through strategic outlets in the city,
