Business View Caribbean - August/September 2018

32 33 NATIONAL RUMS OF JAMAICA, LTD. JAMAICA’S FINEST RUMS N ational Rums of Jamaica, located in Kingston, is a rum producing and exporting company that is jointly owned by the government of Jamaica,West Indies Rum Distillery Ltd. of Barbados (which is owned by Maison Ferrand of France), and Demerara Distillers of Guy- ana. “National Rums of Jamaica is comprised of two major distilleries,” explains Chief Executive Officer,Winston Harrison. “There’s the Long Pond Distillery, which has been in operation for over 250 years, and the Claren- don Distillery, which has been in operation for just over two hundred years. We also have Innswood Distillery Limited, a company that is no longer operating under that name, where we do our barreling, ageing and ware- housing.” “Long Pond Distillery is 100 percent owned by National Rums of Jamaica while Claren- don Distillery is 73 percent owned by Nation- al Rums of Jamaica, and the other 27 percent is owned by Trelawny Estates Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Diageo International,” Harrison WHAT: A rum producing and exporting company WHERE: Kingston, Jamaica WEBSITE: www.monymuskrums.com AT A GLANCE NATIONAL RUMS OF JAMAICA, LTD.