Who owns Hi-Lo Food Stores?
Hi-Lo Food Stores is owned by GraceKennedy (Jamaica, JSE: GK).[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
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇲 Jamaica, Kingston
- Origin
- 🇯🇲 Jamaica
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Retailer own brands › Grocery own brands
- Parent ticker
- JSE: GK
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Hi-Lo Food Stores
Hi-Lo Food Stores is GraceKennedy's Jamaican supermarket chain, which also sells groceries under its own Hi-Lo label. It raised its profits in 2025 even though Hurricane Melissa damaged its Fairview store badly enough to close it, and at its Barbican branch the group's money transfer business began letting customers collect remittances at the till and spend them on groceries straight away. GraceKennedy says it is discussing new stores and plans to reimagine Fairview.
Ownership timeline of Hi-Lo Food Stores
- Current owner GraceKennedy [1] reported
Where Hi-Lo Food Stores 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.
- Catherine's Peak
- Dunn's River
- Encona (1975)
- Grace (1922)
- Nurishment
- Tastee
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.
| 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: 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 →
🇯🇲 Hi-Lo Food Stores and other Jamaican brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 23 brands that began in Jamaica. 4 of them (17%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Hi-Lo Food Stores is not one of them.
- Appleton Estate — Campari Group 🇳🇱
- BIGGA — Wisynco 🇯🇲
- Betty — Seprod 🇯🇲
- Captain Morgan — Diageo 🇬🇧
- Hamilton's Smokehouse — Jamaica Broilers 🇯🇲
- Norman Manley International Airport — GAP 🇲🇽
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Hi-Lo Food Stores?
The parent company of Hi-Lo Food Stores is GraceKennedy, a publicly listed company headquartered in Jamaica.
Is Hi-Lo Food Stores Jamaican?
Yes. Hi-Lo Food Stores originated in Jamaica and its owner, GraceKennedy, is also headquartered in Jamaica.
Is Hi-Lo Food Stores still owned by GraceKennedy?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Hi-Lo Food Stores 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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