Florida Ice and Farm Company

Florida Ice and Farm Company S.A. (abbreviated as FIFCO) is a Costa Rican food and beverages company headquartered in the province of Heredia, Costa Rica. It has a catalog of over 2000 products, sold in over 15 countries.

FIFCO is structured as a holding company with three subsidiaries: Florida Bebidas (food and beverages), Florida Capitales (investments in bottling facilities), and Florida Inmobiliaria (investments in resort hotels).

History

In 1908 two brothers of Jamaican origin, Rupert Cecilio and Stanley Lindo Morales founded a company in Siquirres; dedicated to agriculture and the fabrication of ice. The finca (property) in which the company was located was called "La Florida", from which the company took its name of "Florida Ice and Farm Company". The brothers used an English name due to the fact that English was their native tongue as it was also for many caribbean migrants that lived in the Atlantic region of Costa Rica. With that same company they purchased the brewery and beverages business owned by José Traube in 1912. This is how a company that was mainly an agricultural concern entered the beverages market.