the next few weeks.

Wholesale distributors Butterfield & Vallis expect a new shipment of oxo cubes to arrive by the middle of this month.

The company apologised to customers in a advertisement in The Royal Gazette last week. "We have experienced great difficulties in obtaining inventories of the Oxo brand of bullion cubes which has led to general out-of-stocks throughout the Island,'' it stated.

And manager Eddie Sousa yesterday explained: "We are dealing with a different plant in the United Kingdom. The company we used to deal with shut down and we had to establish new channels with a new plant.''