GraceKennedy: brands it owns and its ownership tree
GraceKennedy (JSE: GK) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica that owns 7 consumer brands across 3 categories.[1]
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.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- GraceKennedy Limited (also Grace Kennedy, Grace, Kennedy & Company Limited, GK)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇯🇲 Kingston, Jamaica
- Founded
- 1922
- Tickers
- JSE: GK
- Website
- gracekennedy.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
GraceKennedy in numbers
- GraceKennedy owns 7 consumer brands tracked here across 3 top-level categories; the largest is food with 5 brands.[1]
- 3 of its brands originated outside Jamaica.
Everything GraceKennedy owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
Full portfolio, 7 brands, with sources → · Competitors by shared categories →
GraceKennedy in the global legal-entity registry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
- Legal entity identifier (LEI)
- 98450045AOAD0MFS8C77
- Registered name
- GraceKennedy Limited (JM)
- Registration status
- Issued · record updated 29 July 2026
- Parent
- None named: it reports that no person or entity controls it.
- Retrieved
- · GLEIF record (JSON)
Frequently asked questions
What brands does GraceKennedy own?
GraceKennedy owns 7 consumer brands tracked here, including Grace, Hi-Lo Food Stores, Dunn's River, Encona, Tastee and Nurishment.
Is GraceKennedy a Jamaican company?
Yes. GraceKennedy is headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica and was founded in 1922.
Who owns GraceKennedy?
GraceKennedy is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as GK on the JSE.
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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