Stories by Tameka Gordon

Caribbean Cream Limited, which trades as Kremi, sold $1.13 billion worth of ice cream products last year to improve its turnover by 12 per cent, or $122 million.The company attributed its revenue growth to ongoing sales and marketing efforts amid...

Tortuga International Holdings Limited says it plans to use its recently acquired free zone designation to boost production and tap the growing regional and international demand for its products.The cake maker was granted the status for its new...

Chairman of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers Association (AIJCFA) Allan Rickards, wants some 2,000 hectares of sugar cane lands in Clarendon held by Pan Caribbean Sugar Company to be leased to farmers.Rickards charged that since the Chinese...

Jamaica has moved up seven places on the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) and is now ranked at 90, earning a score of 27.3 out of a possible 100.With the 2016 scores, the country falls just below Ecuador with 27.4 and Egypt with a similar...

Air conditioning company CAC 2000 Limited reported sales of $229.7 million in its January quarter, up from the $175 million realised in 2015.It's the company's first quarterly filing results since its January 7...

Pulse Investments Limited is planning to develop a health facility at its Villa Ronai complex, and improve storage at its commercial complex Puls8 in New Kingston.Chairman Kingsley Cooper said the health centre is "meant to cover a range of services...

Sagicor Real Estate X Fund's hotel portfolio generated more than $5 billion of revenue for the company in 2015 amid signals that the out-turn will be even better this year when the business from its latest acquisition is fully factored into its...

Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) says all its services will now attract General Consumption Tax (GCT) as it is now a registered taxpaying agency. The standards body itself began paying GCT to its suppliers last year but was unable to charge its...

Montego Bay-based investor network Alpha Angels has increased the number of investors in its pool to 11 and is also looking to double the number of pitches...

Inventors Turner Innovations now have the technology to commercialise their reaping machine, having tweaked the concept to mass produce the device, but are looking to break into international markets as reapers before spreading the technology around...

Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has earmarked $75 million in grant funding for its incubator programme called Innovation Grant from New Ideas to Entrepreneurship (IGNITE),...

Cake maker Tortuga International Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Jamaica Producers Group, plans to expand its product line when it moves to its new bakery,...