Who owns Tastee?
Tastee is owned by GraceKennedy (Jamaica, JSE: GK), which has owned the brand since 27 January 2026.[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
- 🇯🇲 Jamaica
- Category
- Food › Dairy & alternatives › Cheese
- Parent ticker
- JSE: GK
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Tastee
Tastee is the cheese brand of Dairy Industries (Jamaica) Limited, which GraceKennedy describes as the only maker of processed cheese in a can in Jamaica and the Caribbean. GraceKennedy owned half of the company with Fonterra until 27 January 2026, when it paid J$3.15 billion for Fonterra's 50 per cent. The plant also makes cheese spreads, yogurt and powdered milk, and exports account for more than a quarter of its revenue.
Ownership timeline of Tastee
- 2026 – present GraceKennedy [1] reported
Where Tastee 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
- Dunn's River
- Encona (1975)
- Grace (1922)
- Nurishment
Other brands in cheese, and who owns them
The 99 brands in cheese on Brandtree belong to 40 owners. The largest is Savencia Fromage & Dairy, with 9.
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 →
🇯🇲 Tastee 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; Tastee is not one of them.
- Betty — Seprod 🇯🇲
- Hamilton's Smokehouse — Jamaica Broilers 🇯🇲
- Appleton Estate — Campari Group 🇳🇱
- BIGGA — Wisynco 🇯🇲
- Captain Morgan — Diageo 🇬🇧
- Norman Manley International Airport — GAP 🇲🇽
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Tastee?
The parent company of Tastee is GraceKennedy, a publicly listed company headquartered in Jamaica.
Is Tastee Jamaican?
Yes. Tastee originated in Jamaica and its owner, GraceKennedy, is also headquartered in Jamaica.
Since when has GraceKennedy owned Tastee?
GraceKennedy has owned Tastee since 27 January 2026.
Is Tastee still owned by GraceKennedy?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Tastee 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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