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Business View Caribbean
Corrpak Jamaica Limited
Supplying packaging and more
It’s an odd business whose founders launch it with
anything but making money in mind. Yet, according to
Howard Mitchell, the Executive Chairman of Corrpak
Jamaica Ltd., that’s exactly how this particular compa-
ny began. “We didn’t start with the profit motive being
the primary thing,” says Mitchell who created Corrpak
in 2006 with his business partner, G. Raymond Chang,
a well-known Canadian-Jamaican businessman and
philanthropist. “The master plan was to provide import
substitution for local manufacturing, to provide em-
ployment, and to train Jamaicans into skilled workers.”
Mitchell says that he and Chang were responding to a
request from the then President of the Jamaica Manu-
facturing Association, Doreen Frankson. “She knew
that we had done some investments in Jamaica and
that we were looking for things that gave value-added
to the Jamaican economy,” he says. “She came to
us and said, ‘You need to do something about pack-
aging because we’re importing most of it. There are
no manufacturing companies doing corrugated card-
board packaging on any great scale in Jamaica. And as
a result, our manufacturing is suffering because we’re
