Who owns Chef Direct?
Chef Direct is owned by AML Foods (the Bahamas, BISX: AML).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: AML Foods Limited Annual Report 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- AML Foods Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇧🇸 Bahamas, Nassau
- Origin
- 🇧🇸 Bahamas
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Retailer own brands › Grocery own brands
- Parent ticker
- BISX: AML
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Chef Direct
Chef Direct is the food-service arm AML Foods launched as an online marketplace connecting Bahamian restaurants, resorts and chefs to more than 9,000 food products shipped directly from the United States, with door-to-door delivery intended to protect freshness. It began serving Exuma, Abaco, Eleuthera and New Providence, with expansion into Grand Bahama planned, and it is the group's attempt to sell to the kitchens that supply the tourist economy rather than only to the households that shop its supermarkets.
Ownership timeline of Chef Direct
Where Chef Direct sits in AML Foods
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by AML Foods
AML Foods controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
Other brands in grocery own brands, and who owns them
The 170 brands in grocery own brands on Brandtree belong to 55 owners. The largest is Cencosud, with 12; AML Foods has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bretas | Cencosud | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Lucerne | Albertsons | 🇺🇸 United States |
| City Gross | Axfood | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Chalo | Empire | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Checkers | Shoprite Group | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Amanhecer | Jerónimo Martins | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| K-Citymarket | Kesko | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Farmer's Market | Loblaw | 🇨🇦 Canada |
About the owner: AML Foods
AML Foods is a publicly listed company headquartered in Nassau, Bahamas. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as BISX: AML.
AML Foods is a Bahamian food retailer listed on the Bahamas International Securities Exchange, with 1,229 shareholders and 869 staff working in New Providence, Grand Bahama, Exuma, Eleuthera and Abaco. It reports as two segments, food distribution and food franchise, through eight wholly owned subsidiaries, and runs four kinds of business: grocery stores under the Solomon's and Solomon's Fresh Market names, membership warehouse clubs as Cost Right, a food-service marketplace called Chef Direct, and ten Domino's Pizza outlets held under franchise rather than owned. In the year to 30 April 2025 it acquired the assets of Burrow's One Stop Grocery in Governor's Harbour, Eleuthera, and lost both its Cost Right Nassau and Solomon's Old Trail stores to a fire.
🇧🇸 Chef Direct and other Bahamian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 9 brands that began in the Bahamas. 2 of them (22%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Chef Direct is not one of them.
- Bahamasair — Bahamasair 🇧🇸
- Macro Bank Limited — Banco Macro 🇦🇷
- Resorts World Bimini — Genting 🇲🇾
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Chef Direct?
The parent company of Chef Direct is AML Foods, a publicly listed company headquartered in the Bahamas.
Is Chef Direct Bahamian?
Yes. Chef Direct originated in the Bahamas and its owner, AML Foods, is also headquartered in the Bahamas.
Is Chef Direct still owned by AML Foods?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Chef Direct is still owned by AML Foods. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] AML Foods Limited Annual Report 2025 — AML Foods Limited, Annual report; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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