Introduction

The CRNM is proud of its partnership with the region’s private sector in the execution of our mandate of providing sound technical advice to our stakeholders. We recognize that this partnership enables firms to maximize the benefits of trade agreements.

We continue to believe in a strong partnership with the private sector, who is the ultimate end user of the trade agreements which we negotiate. We also urge more firms to partner with the CRNM in furthering the mandate to global reach and create stronger firms able to take their place amongst leading global entrepreneurs.

The CRNM is committed to a strong private sector partnership, and again thanks the following companies for their support.

Director General

CRNM

RBTT - RBTT traces its history back to 1856, when the Union Bank of Halifax was incorporated in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A branch of Union Bank was opened in Port of Spain in 1902 and when, in 1910.The RBTT Financial Group comprises many companies, including RBTT Merchant Bank Limited, RBTT Trust Limited, and ten commercial banks with an extensive network of bank branches, ATMs and thousands of Point-of-Sale terminals located throughout the English-speaking Caribbean. For more information please visit the company’s web portal at http://www.rbtt.com/

Grace Kennedy- Grace Kennedy started in Jamaica in 1922 as small trading establishment and wharf founders and has expanded and diversified over the years, changing from a privately-owned enterprise to a  public company listed on the stock exchanges of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.  Today, the Grace Kennedy Group comprises a varied network of some 60 subsidiaries and associated companies located across the Caribbean and in North and Central America . Our operations span the distribution, financial, remittance and food  processing industries. For more information, please visit the company’s web portal at http://www.gracekennedy.com/.

Jamaica Producers Group Limited- Jamaica Producers products include fresh bananas, banana snacks, and banana-flavored (and other fruit-flavored) juices. The company's bananas are exported to the UK through its fruit-distribution unit, Jamaica Producers Food Division. Its Serious Foods group of businesses produces branded and private-label juices and smoothies through its Sunjuice subsidiary. The unit also distributes chilled foods in the London area and operates the Serious Soup foodservice business. For more information, please visit the company’s web portal at http://www.jpjamaica.com/.

Jamaica Broilers Group- Corporate Profile- The company started in 1957 as Jamaica’s pioneer producer of broiler meat on a commercial basis. Today, it has a fully integrated poultry operation and has diversified into feed milling, cattle rearing, beef production and fish farming, along with the development and marketing of other value-added products for both local consumption and export. The Jamaica Broilers Group has also devoted significant resources to developing affiliated services that support our varied agricultural operations. These include veterinary and nutritional services, the wholesale and retail of a full range of farm products and the premixing of feed ingredients and concentrate. Jamaica Broilers Group has been a publicly-listed entity since 1977 and, in that same year, became one of the first companies in the world to offer an Employee Share Ownership plan. The company presently has a workforce of over 1,500 workers and operates from seven locations islandwide, with two divisions located in the U.S.A. For more information, please visit the company’s web portal at http://www.jamaicabroilersgroup.com/.

Goddard Enterprises Ltd- Goddard Enterprises Limited (GEL), is a Barbadian company with a varied business portfolio that encompasses interests in the Caribbean as well as Central and South America. GEL's subsidiary companies are found in: airline catering, industrial and restaurant catering, meat processing, bakery operations, automobile retail and automotive parts, real estate, the manufacture of aerosols and liquid detergents, investments, rum distilling, general trading, packaging, fish and shrimp processing, property rentals, general insurance, financing as well as shipping agents and stevedoring. The main divisions of business in which GEL is involved are catering, manufacturing, finance as well as import and distribution. For more information, kindly visit the company’s web portal at http://www.goddardenterpriseslimited.com/

TCL Group-The Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) Group is the leading producer and marketer of cement and ready-mix products in the Caribbean. The Group consists of nine operating companies in Trinidad, Barbados, Jamaica, Anguilla, Guyana and St. Maarten. The TCL Group is essentially involved in the manufacture and sale of bulk and bagged cement, and has integrated vertically into packaging and premixed concrete. TCL and three of its subsidiaries, TPL, TPM and RML are incorporated in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago while ACCL is incorporated in Barbados and CCCL is incorporated in Jamaica. TCL Trading Company Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of TCL was incorporated in Anguilla in December 1997. For more information, kindly visit the company’s web portal at http://www.tclgroup.com/

Sugar Industry Association of Jamaica- It was the leading world sugar producer in the eighteenth century, when a large slave population grew up around sugar plantations. The sugar industry declined in the 19th century, partly because of the abolition of slavery in 1833 (effective 1838) and partly because of the elimination in 1846 of the imperial preference tariff for colonial products entering the British market. Sugar made Jamaica one of the most valuable possessions in the world for more than 150 years. Sugar is one of the most important foreign exchange earners and source of employment in Jamaica. Presently, the cost of production of sugar is three times higher than the world market price. The Jamaica sugar industry is currently under pressure due to globalization. Over the past five years sugar production has not been adequate to satisfy the export and domestic markets and has required imports of raw sugar to supplement the amount going to the domestic market from local production. This measure is a short term one as continuation of this practice could jeopardize our preferential export markets. For more information, kindly visit http://www.scsonline.freeserve.co.uk/olv2p1.pdf, http://www.jamaicasugar.org