Cannings Foods Limited was aTrinidad and Tobago company founded in 1912 by Ernest Canning, a British-born businessman.[1]
The enterprise began as a grocery store. Later, it introduced dairy products, baked goods, poultry processing, and soft drinks.
Cannings acquired theCoca-Cola franchise for Trinidad in 1939. The supermarket HiLo, started in 1950, was the first self-service store in Trinidad and Tobago. Cannings was taken over byNeal and Massy in 1975.[2]
In the 1990s, the Cannings Group ceased to operate, with the exception of the HiLo supermarket. The Cannings soft drink brand was sold toCoca-Cola, and continues to be produced.
Cannings, and its relationship with Coca-Cola, are treated in fictionalized (and renamed) fashion inV. S. Naipaul's 1967 novelThe Mimic Men.[2]
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