On Ju­ly 9, the An­gos­tu­ra Group Em­ploy­ees’ Cred­it Union Co-op­er­a­tive So­ci­ety Lim­it­ed (AGE­CU) cel­e­brat­ed its 50th an­niver­sary—a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone that co­in­cid­ed with the im­mi­nent com­ple­tion of its new ad­min­is­tra­tive build­ing, sched­uled for next month.

From its hum­ble be­gin­nings in 1975 as the Trinidad Dis­tillers Cred­it Union Co-op­er­a­tive So­ci­ety Ltd, AGE­CU has evolved in­to a dy­nam­ic fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion, ex­pand­ing its mem­ber­ship be­yond em­ploy­ees of An­gos­tu­ra Ltd and their im­me­di­ate fam­i­lies to serve a grow­ing and di­verse base.

In 2020, the cred­it union launched its re­brand­ing and trans­for­ma­tion ini­tia­tive, an am­bi­tious project aimed at dri­ving the or­gan­i­sa­tion in­to a dig­i­tal and mem­ber-cen­tric fu­ture.

The ini­tia­tive in­cludes up­grad­ing core prod­ucts, in­tro­duc­ing new ser­vices, and im­ple­ment­ing ad­vanced tech­nol­o­gy so­lu­tions to de­liv­er greater val­ue and con­ve­nience for mem­bers.

The an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tion fea­tured a cer­e­mo­ni­al cake-cut­ting by AGE­CU pres­i­dent Lam­bert George, along­side mem­bers of the board and statu­to­ry com­mit­tees. This sym­bol­ic act marked the start of a year-long se­ries of com­mem­o­ra­tive ac­tiv­i­ties.

In his ad­dress, George paid trib­ute to for­mer pres­i­dents and stal­warts whose ded­i­ca­tion and ser­vice laid the foun­da­tion for AGE­CU’s suc­cess over the past five decades.

Look­ing ahead, AGE­CU will con­tin­ue to host 50th-an­niver­sary events while ad­vanc­ing its trans­for­ma­tion agen­da—re­in­forc­ing its com­mit­ment to re­main­ing the pre­mier fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion of choice for its mem­bers.