Banco Caribe and Revista Mercado recognized Elvira Garrido, founder of Pork and Beer RD, during Entrepreneur Vision 2026, in an event that put the focus on the progress of Dominican small and medium-sized enterprises and the role of financing in their expansion.
The distinction is part of Pyme Expansion, an initiative of Banco Caribe developed with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, aimed at promoting the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises with financing tools, advice and accompaniment.
According to the information provided, Garrido became the first entrepreneur recognized by Banco Caribe within this program. The selection of Pork and Beer RD responds to a trajectory that the bank and the magazine presented as an example of innovation, perseverance and sustained expansion.
Pork and Beer RD operates in Santo Domingo and Santiago, and has built its proposal around popular Dominican dishes, such as roasted pork rinds and mofongo, with a model oriented to family experience.
Pork and Beer RD and its gastronomic bet
The case of Pork and Beer RD reflects a frequent trend in Dominican entrepreneurship: businesses that combine cultural identity, service and differentiation to compete in increasingly demanding urban markets. In this type of projects, operational consistency and access to capital often play as decisive as the initial idea.
The company’s trajectory was presented as a reference of growth within the national entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Entrepreneur Vision 2026 and access to financing
As part of the agenda of Entrepreneur Vision 2026, a panel on financing was also held with representatives of the banking sector, focused on the challenges faced by Dominican entrepreneurs to access resources and consolidate their projects.
In the Dominican Republic, the debate on small and medium-sized enterprises continues to focus on two points: the need for capital and technical accompaniment to scale businesses without losing financial control. In this context, Banco Caribe seeks to position Pyme Expansion as a practical response for companies in the development stage.
The business value behind the recognition
Beyond the tribute, the case of Elvira Garrido puts on the table the importance of making visible entrepreneurship that achieves growth with its own identity. For Banco Caribe, the recognition reinforces its narrative of support for national entrepreneurship; for the private sector, it sends a signal about the weight that small and medium-sized enterprises have today in the Dominican economy.
Banco Caribe, Banco Caribe, and Banco Caribe concentrated the institutional message of the event on the need to strengthen small and medium-sized enterprises, while Elvira Garrido and Pork and Beer RD remained as the most visible example of that bet to grow with innovation and discipline.
With this recognition, Banco Caribe and Revista Mercado once again put Elvira Garrido, Pork and Beer RD, and Pyme Expansion in the spotlight as references of the entrepreneurial impulse that small and medium-sized Dominican enterprises need.
