Excerpt from the Jamaica Observer column published on Monday, February 21, 20221
By Jean Lowrie-Chin
Photo credit: gracekennedy.com
The strong and steady GraceKennedy Group of Companies last week celebrated their 100th anniversary, growing from a distribution company to an innovative manufacturing, exporting and financial giant.
CEO Senator Don Wehby, in commenting on the company’s achievement, noted, “GraceKennedy’s story is one of resilience and longevity … From a little island in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, to the world, a small Jamaican trading establishment transformed into a global consumer group with over fifty subsidiaries, serving millions of customers and employing thousands.” He referred to the Group’s core values of “Honesty, Integrity and Trust, and “the timeless words of our late great Chairman, Hon S. Carlton Alexander, ‘What is good for Jamaica is good for GraceKennedy’.”
The company’s philanthropic contribution through the GraceKennedy Foundation has been remarkable, with well-run homework centres, generous scholarship programmes, environmental projects and their enlightening GraceKennedy Annual Lectures.
Congratulations to Team GK – here’s to the next grand century!
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