Later, it introduced dairy products, baked goods, poultry processing, and soft drinks.
The supermarket HiLo, started in 1950, was the first self-service store in Trinidad and Tobago.
[2] In the 1990s, the Cannings Group ceased to operate, with the exception of the HiLo supermarket.
The Cannings soft drink brand was sold to Coca-Cola, and continues to be produced.
Cannings, and its relationship with Coca-Cola, are treated in fictionalized (and renamed) fashion in V. S. Naipaul's 1967 novel The Mimic Men.