Corrpak Jamaica Ltd.

2 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