September 2015 Issue Business View Caribbean

30 September 2015 - Business View Caribbean Edgechem Jamaica Limited It’s all about color for one of the caribbean’s leading paint companies Edgechem Jamaica Limited is a Kingston-based man- ufacturing company that produces and distributes paints, paint products, coatings, and finishes. It was founded in 1990 by five Jamaican entrepreneurs who were looking for a way to give back to their country by employing local people, while offering necessary and useful products for general consumption in the furniture manufacturing sector. According to Melissa McHargh, Edgechem’s General Manager, the company began in “a little shop in a depressed area – Olympic Gardens – where you wouldn’t even think of putting a little business. They started to make furniture finishes, and from that seed that was planted, it has grown to what it is today.” McHargh relates that the company’s founders had not originally envisioned the business growing as quickly or as robustly as it did. “The master plan never saw the business this large, or growing to this extent,” she says. “They put together the usual five-year business