Who owns Encona?
Encona 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
- Founded
- 1975
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Sauces & ketchup
- Parent ticker
- JSE: GK
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Encona
Encona is a hot pepper sauce range that Grace Foods UK says was introduced in 1975 and calls the country's number one hot pepper sauce brand. It came to GraceKennedy in 2007 with Enco, the British supplier of Afro-Caribbean food that was part of WT Foods, and is sold in several heat levels and pack sizes, with Caribbean recipes alongside flavours from elsewhere. GraceKennedy's 2025 report names it one of two priority brands in Britain.
Ownership timeline of Encona
- 2007 – present GraceKennedy [1] reported
Where Encona 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
Other brands in sauces & ketchup, and who owns them
The 95 brands in sauces & ketchup on Brandtree belong to 53 owners. The largest is Develey, with 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bautz'ner | Develey | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Chungjungone | Daesang | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Haitian | Haitian | 🇨🇳 China |
| Chaochai | Sempio | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Búfalo | Grupo Herdez | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| A.1. | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Las Palmas | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Erisco | Erisco Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
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 →
🇬🇧 Encona 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, Encona among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Encona?
The parent company of Encona is GraceKennedy, a publicly listed company headquartered in Jamaica.
Is Encona British or Jamaican?
Encona originated in the United Kingdom in 1975, but it is owned today by GraceKennedy, which is headquartered in Jamaica. So Encona is a British-origin brand under Jamaican ownership.
Since when has GraceKennedy owned Encona?
GraceKennedy has owned Encona since 2007.
Is Encona still owned by GraceKennedy?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Encona 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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