Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
United States electronic commerce and cloud computing company Amazon is still very much a part of Jamaica's business process outsourcing landscape.Questions arose in the...
Published:Tuesday | November 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
The new inductee into the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Hall of Fame, Richard Byles, is recommending the establishment of an Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC)-type arrangement to provide surveillance over the broad...
Published:Thursday | November 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Manufacturing conglomerate Seprod Limited and its American partner commissioned Jamaica's second flour mill on Tuesday, and are already looking to exports to bring in the dough for the new...
Published:Thursday | October 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Everyting Oily Labs Limited, one of two outfits to land the first ganja licences issued in Jamaica, is setting up shop in Portmore, but its principal...
Published:Wednesday | October 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
In the past few months, store owners and shoppers have been contending with cavernous excavations, dust and debris, and the hum of construction as the owners of Mall...
Published:Wednesday | October 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Purity shareholders got a taste of what's to come, literally, when the company doled out a new cookie at their annual general meeting for feedback ahead of its market introduction.It's...
Published:Thursday | September 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Jamaica Inn, a luxury boutique hotel based in Ocho Rios, has been in business for decades, but the past few years have been challenging.Business was sluggish, even though the hotel has been part of the Expedia network since 2002.Still, its operators...
Published:Monday | October 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Poultry producer Jamaica Broilers Group is now going after markets on the east coast of the United States, with the acquisition of a hatchery in Big Valley, Pennsylvania.The company has not disclosed the terms of the transaction, saying only it...
Published:Tuesday | October 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Tyrone Wilson's eMedia Interactive Group Limited has struck a new partnership with an Irish outfit to deliver a digital marketing course in the Caribbean through iCreate Institute.The agreement with Digital Marketing Institute offers qualifications...
Published:Thursday | October 5, 2017 | 3:36 PMNeville Graham
The crowded unit trust market just got more competitive with the entry of Proven select funds, a collection of four portfolios - Jamaica and US dollar money market, US dollar fixed income, and Jamaica dollar equity. Proven made the announcement on...
Published:Friday | September 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Finance Minister Audley Shaw says he wants 100 per cent examination of goods coming in and going out of Jamaican ports in order to clamp down on corruption. Addressing the Customs Tariff & Port Users Seminar hosted by the Jamaica Chamber...
Published:Wednesday | September 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
By mid-November, the revitalised and refreshed Victoria Pier should be up and running after a 17-year hiatus. And at least two well-known restaurant brands are expected...
Published:Tuesday | September 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Finance and Planning Minister Audley Shaw is calling for a halt to recent speculative pressures on the Jamaican dollar. He says the recent depreciation in the value of the currency is unwarranted, especially in light of availability. He says there...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Derrimon Trading Company Limited once relied on distribution as its main source of income, but it also meant extending credit to customers, which left the company exposed.Its retail operation, however, was a more consistent source of cash.Then last...
Published:Tuesday | September 26, 2017 | 11:58 AMNeville Graham
Finance and Planning Minister Audley Shaw is calling for a halt to recent speculative pressures on the Jamaican dollar. He says the recent depreciation in the value of the currency is unwarranted, especially in light of availability. He says there...
Published:Friday | September 22, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Those who missed the Jamaica Karting Association Meet 6 at the Palisadoes Raceway on Sunday will rue the chance they had to see everything from persistence to dominance tokeen rivalry.The biggest winner for the day was young Justin Donaldson in...
Published:Tuesday | September 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
RJRGLEANER Communications Group CEO Gary Allen aims to double returns in five years and has laid out a growth strategy underpinned by business diversification, new partnerships and potential acquisitions to achieve that goal.The media group, whose...
Published:Monday | September 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Wisynco Group Limited will today unveil a rebuilt complex that is nearly 50 per cent bigger, and will soon sport a new beverage plant and cold storage facility...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 11:39 AMNeville Graham
Backed by more than 200 distributors and 15 H&L Agro locations, Sapphire Agriculture Jamaica is muscling its way into the local fertilizer market, having launched its full product line at the Spanish Town Road, Kingston headquarters of H...
Published:Thursday | September 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Carreras is now more careful about how it deploys its marketing dollars to protect sales volume and hold on to its customers, who tend to migrate with every tax assault on cigarettes.In one of the most dramatic quarters for the cigarette trader in...
Published:Tuesday | September 5, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Distributors of construction materials are rallying around each other following at least seven incidents of fraud against hardware stores and traders perpetuated by a...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2017 | 5:33 PMNeville Graham
Carreras shareholders on record as at September 21, 2017 will benefit from a 10-for-one stock split. Shareholders voting at the company’s annual general meeting today approved an August 8 board resolution. Board chairman, Oliver Holmes...
Published:Friday | September 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
The Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, agreed to a new bill for the credit union sector after legislative drafters of regulations to police the group highlighted prospective clashes with current law, but is holding to an early 2018 timeline to wrap up the...
Published:Tuesday | August 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
The reform of the credit union market has taken a new turn with regulators having agreed that the movement needs to be codified under its own statute.It comes 18 years into...
