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Business View Magazine
Wake Up
to Paradise
Salada Foods banking on
authentic Jamaican resonance
Salada Foods Jamaica Ltd.’s reputation for quality
products in export markets throughout the Caribbean
region – as well as North America, Europe and both
the near and far East – stretches back to its founding
more than half a century ago in 1958.
At its origin, the company sprang from a cooperative
of growers in the Blue Mountain region who wanted to
move from simply farming the raw coffee materials to
processing the products and making them available in
international markets. An infusion of cash and cred-
ibility arrived thanks to a partnership with the then
Canadian-based Salada Tea Company, which helped
the fledgling operation construct the plants that en-
abled processing the coffee from beans to a soluble
powder form.
These days, it is the largest of four coffee processing
