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Today, the PR representative explained to the media:

Christelle Wilson - PR Officer, Bowen & Bowen
"We are currently upgrading our bottling line. We are upgrading our returnable glass bottling line, so what we had to do is we did need to slow down production so that we could make space for this new line. It's really ground breaking - we are installing new equipment, we have new equipment coming in and in an effort to ensure that we maintain the quality standards in our products that we produce we had to slow down this line and get ready to bring in the new line."

Daniel Ortis
"So what is happening in terms of this production line? What products are currently not on the shelves at the volume you would have wanted it?"

Christelle Wilson
"I'm just going to go in a little detail here with the equipment that we are changing; we do have equipment like the bottling line, the bottling washer etc. that we are bringing a bottling line to replace. So what we have done right now to meet the growing demand of products - because we haven't really slow down production per say to say that we are not producing as many products as we use to, but the growing demand that has increase the beverage industry has now expand. Everything that comes on the glass line; everything that's produce in a glass bottle we had to slow down the production of those products. So you will be experiencing a shortage of those products maybe up until the end of June when we should have our line up and working."

Reporter
"This move of course there is a lot of competition now when it comes to beers. It must be at a risk for Bowen and Bowen to take such a route."

Christelle Wilson
"It is a risk, yes, but we have to reinvest in our country. As you said, there is more competition. We can't stand still and have a small production line when the demand is growing. So we actually met and we took this into consideration and said look, do we stay behind and have somebody else come in and produce more products and beat us in the market or do we just have a temporary period where we experience this small shortage, but we increase our line to meet the growing demand."

Wilson told us that this dialed back production continues until sometime into June, when the new equipment will have been installed. She also stressed that this has become important because they are insisting on quality control to ensure that customers aren't sold defective products. The piece of equipment being changed is the washer which ensures that the glass bottles are properly cleaned. This dialing back of production is expected to affect customers around the country.