Who owns Purity?
Purity, a food brand from Barbados, is owned by Goddard Enterprises (Barbados, BSE: GEL).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Goddard Enterprises Limited Annual Report 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Goddard Enterprises Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇧🇧 Barbados, Haggatt Hall, St Michael
- Origin
- 🇧🇧 Barbados, Bridgetown
- Founded
- 1930
- Category
- Food › Bakery › Bread & buns
- Parent ticker
- BSE: GEL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Purity
Purity is the bread brand of Purity Bakeries Ltd, the wholly owned Barbadian subsidiary that forms the Baking division of Goddard Enterprises. The bakery has been baking for the Barbadian market since 1930 from Lower Collymore Rock in St Michael, supplying supermarkets, mini-marts, hotels and restaurants across the island seven days a week, and it also runs the Purity Bread & Pastry Shoppe as a retail outlet. Goddard named it one of the top-performing Caribbean subsidiaries for sales in the 2025 financial year and has earmarked further capital investment in the plant.
Ownership timeline of Purity
- Current owner Goddard Enterprises [1] reported
Where Purity sits in Goddard Enterprises
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Open the full Goddard Enterprises ownership tree →
See the full Goddard Enterprises brand portfolio (6) →
Other brands owned by Goddard Enterprises
Goddard Enterprises controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in bread & buns, and who owns them
The 43 brands in bread & buns on Brandtree belong to 28 owners. The largest is Grupo Bimbo, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Toast | AGROFERT | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic |
| Elite | ELBISCO | 🇬🇷 Greece |
| Arnold | Grupo Bimbo | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Dave's Killer Bread | Flowers Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Delicados | GRUMA | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Korvbrödsbagarn | Lantmännen | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| New York Bakery | Marzetti | 🇺🇸 United States |
| L'usine | Almarai | 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia |
About the owner: Goddard Enterprises
Goddard Enterprises is a publicly listed company headquartered in Haggatt Hall, St Michael, Barbados, founded in 1921. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as BSE: GEL.
Goddard Enterprises is a Barbadian conglomerate founded in 1921 and listed on the Barbados Stock Exchange, operating across the Caribbean and Latin America through divisions covering airline and industrial catering, manufacturing, building supplies, automotive retail, shipping and insurance. Its manufacturing arm, GEL Manufacturing Holding Company Limited, runs eight companies in Barbados, Jamaica, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic and employs more than 800 people; the consumer brands in that arm come from Purity Bakeries, the meat processor Hipac and the aerosol maker McBride (Caribbean), all wholly owned Barbadian subsidiaries. Goddard Catering Group, 51%-held, is one of the largest airline caterers in the region, and Acado Limited, the regional consumer-goods distributor formerly called Caribbean Distribution Partners, is a 50% joint venture rather than a subsidiary. In the year to 30 September 2025 the manufacturing division delivered what the company called its strongest profit performance in many years.
Goddard Enterprises: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇧🇧 Purity and other Barbadian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 8 brands that began in Barbados. 2 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Purity is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Purity?
The parent company of Purity is Goddard Enterprises, a publicly listed company headquartered in Barbados.
Is Purity Barbadian?
Yes. Purity originated in Barbados in 1930 and its owner, Goddard Enterprises, is also headquartered in Barbados.
Is Purity still owned by Goddard Enterprises?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Purity is still owned by Goddard Enterprises. 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] Goddard Enterprises Limited Annual Report 2025 — Goddard Enterprises Limited, Annual report; retrieved 20 September 2026.
Report a correction Opens a pre-filled GitHub issue. See our corrections policy.