MARICS & Company Limited opened a new head office/showroom at Lot 186-7 Charlotte Street, Lacytown, Georgetown on Friday.
Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin, who spoke at the commissioning, lauded the owners of Marics and Company Limited for their initiative and for promoting quality products through its brand Honda. Marics imports quality products and vehicles and provides warranties and guarantees.
Gaskin said with the impending oil boom, the government remains supportive of investments that will facilitate private sector growth and development.
He related that the growth of businesses provides an opportunity for advancement for Guyanese as more jobs will be created. The minister also called on the business community to emulate the strides made by Marics and hailed the investment as a step in the right direction.
“Every Guyanese should afford a car, though it may sound ambitious, we have to aspire to a minimum quality of life and we are soon to have means to achieve this through oil wealth for an ambitious future,” Gaskin said.
He also thanked Marics for showing confidence in the Guyanese economy.
Marics and Company Limited Managing Director Diana Permaul, said the company provides high quality, fuel efficient products and is the sole distributor of Honda auto motive, motorcycles, outboard engines and power products.
Over the years, she said the company has enjoyed excellent relations with its customers and wanted to have a building with a showroom and state-of-the-art workshop/tools to train staff to further improve customer interaction.
The showroom is designed to optimise interaction with customers and the company is here to deliver high quality products, Permaul said.
She also paid tribute to her husband, John Permaul who credits her for his success and for being the driving force behind him.
The company intends to introduce two new brands in 2019.
At the ceremony, a raffle was drawn in which three winners, who spent $10,000 or more were selected form the rotisserie.
The winners Tiffany Braithwaite, who received a brush cutter; Joshua Reis, who won a generator and the Raymond (only name given), won a XR 150 motorcycle.
