46 June 2016 - Business View Caribbean
The Associated
Manufacturers Ltd.
Associated Manufacturers taking jerk seasoning to a worldwide stage
It’s a long way, literally, from making household and
personal care products to creating Caribbean-season-
ings, sauces, spices and preserves that are enjoyed in
markets across the world.
But that’s the distinctive tale told by Jamaica’s Asso-
ciated Manufacturers Ltd., the Kingston-based opera-
tion that got into the food business 15 years ago and
hasn’t looked back.
The company had developed into the largest local man-
ufacturing entity in the Caribbean by the late 1990s
through its involvement in, among other things, the
manufacture of the soap, shampoo and conditioner
assortments found in hotel and resort chains across a
tourism-heavy region.
It entered a royalty-based relationship with Jamaica’s
Busha Browne in 1999 and began producing sauces
