Real estate investment trust Kingston Properties Limited, KPREIT, plans to spend no more than $60 million on improvements to its newest acquisition, commercial property at East Ashenheim Road in Kingston, before going to the market in search of...
Cutting it close, the Supreme Court will hold hearings on whether Key Insurance Company can hold a virtual annual general meeting (AGM), one day ahead of its convening. Chairman Don Wehby thinks it might be too close, and might mean a postponement...
Caribbean Cream Limited, which trades as Kremi, has pumped $60 million into the acquisition of a half-acre of land that sits next to its head office at 3 South Road in Kingston. The sale, which was completed in June, follows on a $65-million...
The directors of SSL Venture Capital Jamaica Limited, which reported a tripling of its annual losses to $152.8 million this year, will be discussing the way forward for the company at a board meeting scheduled for next month. The reassessment of...
A deal struck between Lasco Manufacturing Limited and American company United Cannabis Corporation, UCANN, for the production of cannabis-infused water and other medicinals has been placed on hold. It comes in the wake of UCANN’s filing for...
Food and financial services group GraceKennedy Limited has made another eight senior management changes, in furtherance of its ambitions towards being a global consumer group that earns the majority of its revenue from overseas holdings. The...
Salada Foods Jamaica will know next month whether it must change its formulation to accommodate new quota rules for Jamaican beans in its coffee blends, or whether it is its regulator that will be dragged back into line by the Supreme Court. The...
Poultry producer Jamaica Broilers Group is back to production levels of near 90 per cent and has cleared higher-than-usual inventory levels following a loosening in COVID-19 restrictions between June and August, but there are concerns that the...
Tuesday, September 1, should have seen Salada changing the formulation of its instant coffee to include 30 per cent Jamaican beans, up from the 10 per cent that its products now incorporate. Instead, the company has turned to the courts for an...
Derrimon Trading Company plans to approach the market with an additional share offer, or APO, the first junior market company to join others on the main exchange seeking to raise fresh capital through new share issues, assuming shareholders vote...
Banking institutions with deposits protected under the Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation (JDIC) will not face a premium hike despite the lifting of the limit on protected deposits from $600,000 to $1.2 million. The JDIC currently has 11...
Mapco Printers, a company that has operated in Jamaica for 34 years and holds a tenth of the market, has struck a deal that will see the outsourcing of its print productions to competitor Lithographic Printers. The production partnership falls...
A digital transformation programme started by the GraceKennedy conglomerate three years ago has been elevated within the group as a strategic priority. Not only has GK set up a Digital Transformation Steering Committee, chaired by Group CEO Don...
A plan put forward by CEO Zachary Harding for SSL Growth Equity Limited, which trades as SSL Group, to create a private equity subsidiary is now off the table. Instead, SSL Group has announced the formation of a legally separate entity, Delta...
A recent hike in prices by Jamaica’s sugar producers and marketers has not found favour with the Sugar Industry Authority, SIA, which views the decision as tone-deaf, coming as it is in the middle of a pandemic and a slew of job losses. The 9.2 per...
Big poultry companies Jamaica Broilers Group and Caribbean Broilers say they are likely to still be holding record-high inventory of chickens for the next six months. That might have been good news in normal times for a country that favours poultry...
Red Stripe Jamaica and Pepsi Jamaica will be giving away 6,000 cases of beverages, a move that serves not only to give the sellers of liquor the stock to bring back life to their businesses, but also positions the brewery to ramp up sales as...
Hard hit by the slowdown in the economy, and with some in the sector facing bankruptcy, microlenders are seeking a lifeline from Government in the form of $8 billion of cheap credit. Blossom O’Meally-Nelson, chairman of the Jamaica Association for...
AFTER THREE years of trying to woo Cayman Islands with its line of cleaning agents, Pioneer Manufacturing Distribution Company sent off its second shipment of Chloro-Do bleach to that country on Monday, a trading window it said was opened up due,...
Jamaica’s employed labour force grew three per cent to 1,269,100 for the month of January, according to the latest data from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN). The largest increase in employment was recorded in the occupation group ‘...
JMMB Fund Managers Limited, JMMBFM, has struck a deal with four-year-old company Wise Construction to develop luxury homes, marking its entry into the residential real estate market as a minority partner. The housing project is earmarked for a one-...
Courier company Mailpac has struck a new deal with long-time business partner PriceSmart Jamaica, through which the retailer’s shoppers can buy through its online platform and have their orders delivered nationwide. The arrangement between them is...
The shortage of raw materials on the world market used to manufacture sanitation products has forced local manufacturer to slash its customer list for cleaning agents and limit sales to individuals. Such action is meant to address what is now...
