Who owns Dunn's River?
Dunn's River is owned by GraceKennedy (Jamaica, JSE: GK), which has owned the brand since 2007.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: GraceKennedy Group Annual Report 2025, GraceKennedy Limited. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- GraceKennedy Limited reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇲 Jamaica, Kingston
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Spices & seasonings
- Parent ticker
- JSE: GK
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Dunn's River
Dunn's River is a range of Caribbean cooking ingredients sold in Britain, among them seasonings, spices, sauces, fry mixes, canned vegetables and pulses, coconut milk and jams, named after the Jamaican waterfalls. It was one of the principal brands of Enco, the British Afro-Caribbean food supplier that GraceKennedy bought with the rest of WT Foods from a private equity firm in 2007, and in 2025 its Lemon Jerk Seasoning won a Great Taste Award.
Ownership timeline of Dunn's River
- 2007 – present GraceKennedy [1] reported
Where Dunn's River sits in GraceKennedy
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by GraceKennedy
GraceKennedy controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in food.
Also in food
- Encona (1975)
- Grace (1922)
- Nurishment
- Tastee
Other brands in spices & seasonings, and who owns them
The 46 brands in spices & seasonings on Brandtree belong to 31 owners. The largest is Patisen, with 5.
About the owner: GraceKennedy
GraceKennedy is a publicly listed company headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, founded in 1922. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as JSE: GK.
GraceKennedy was founded in Kingston on 14 February 1922 by John J. Grace and Fred William Kennedy, who kept going the Jamaican branch that W.R. Grace and Company of New York had decided to divest. It is listed in Jamaica and in Trinidad and Tobago and has two halves: a food business that manufactures, distributes and retails groceries in Jamaica and sells Caribbean brands in the United States, Britain and Canada, and a financial group covering banking, insurance and money transfer. In January 2026 it bought Fonterra's half of Dairy Industries (Jamaica), the maker of Tastee cheese.
GraceKennedy: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇬🇧 Dunn's River and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 571 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 297 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Dunn's River among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Dunn's River?
The parent company of Dunn's River is GraceKennedy, a publicly listed company headquartered in Jamaica.
Is Dunn's River British or Jamaican?
Dunn's River originated in the United Kingdom, but it is owned today by GraceKennedy, which is headquartered in Jamaica. So Dunn's River is a British-origin brand under Jamaican ownership.
Since when has GraceKennedy owned Dunn's River?
GraceKennedy has owned Dunn's River since 2007.
Is Dunn's River still owned by GraceKennedy?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Dunn's River is still owned by GraceKennedy. 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] GraceKennedy Group Annual Report 2025 — GraceKennedy Limited, Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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