An­gos­tu­ra Ltd has an­nounced that prices for its lo­cal­ly man­u­fac­tured rums will in­crease from to­mor­row (Oc­to­ber 17, 2025), fol­low­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent rise in ex­cise du­ty on rum and spir­its.

The com­pa­ny said the ad­just­ments are nec­es­sary af­ter the ex­cise du­ty took im­me­di­ate ef­fect as part of the 2025/2026 Na­tion­al Bud­get.

In a state­ment, An­gos­tu­ra de­scribed it­self as a re­spon­si­ble cor­po­rate cit­i­zen with more than 200 years of her­itage in Trinidad and To­ba­go, adding that it sup­ports the Gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts to strength­en fis­cal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to the com­pa­ny, it has ab­sorbed high­er pro­duc­tion costs over the years through im­proved pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy, and in­no­va­tion to lim­it the im­pact on con­sumers.

“How­ev­er, this re­cent in­crease in ex­cise du­ty now re­quires price ad­just­ments to en­sure busi­ness con­ti­nu­ity and the con­tin­ued em­ploy­ment of our work­force of over 537 cit­i­zens,” An­gos­tu­ra said.

The com­pa­ny reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to main­tain­ing the world-class qual­i­ty of its rums and bit­ters, sup­port­ing the lo­cal econ­o­my and sup­ply chain, and pro­mot­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s brands in more than 170 in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets.

An­gos­tu­ra al­so ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion to its cus­tomers, trade part­ners, and stake­hold­ers for their con­tin­ued trust, stat­ing it will con­tin­ue to op­er­ate with trans­paren­cy and care, bal­anc­ing na­tion­al in­ter­est with con­sumer val­ue.

The revised price listing for Angostura Limited’s products. Courtesy Angostura Limited.

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