William Mahfood, managing director of Wisynco group of comapanies. - File

Manufacturing and distribution company Wisynco Group Limited, is to open its second Domino Pizza airport store at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston next week, growing the chain to eight.

The move is part of group managing director William Mahfood's efforts to grow the restaurant side of the company's operations to about 15 per cent of total business.

Mahfood said he chose the airports first to expand the chain because of the high volume of traffic.

Sangster International and Norman Manley International together account for passenger volumes of five million per year.

Dominos opened for business five weeks ago at Sangster in Montego Bay.

Earmarked for the expansion

The newest store was set up at a cost of approximately $10 million, or just about one tenth the amount Mahfood said in an earlier interview with Wednesday Business was earmarked for the expansion.

"We now have seven stores. When we took over the company last year we had five stores," Mahfood told Wednesday Business.

"This Norman Manley store will make it eight and we are hoping to have two more by the end of this year," he added, but declined to state the locations.

The space for the store at the Kingston airport is leased from the airport's management.

Wisynco acquired the Dominos in mid-2007 when it gained control of Partner Foods. Mahfood was a minor partner in the company at the time.

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