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Monday, May 13, 2013
Jamaica Broilers Invests $300M in New Plant
JAMAICA - The Jamaica Broilers Group has invested more than $300 million to construct a new processing plant at Spring Village, St Catherine, to relocate its further processing facility from Content, Bog Walk, in the parish....
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Jamaica Broilers to Install Solar PV Systems
JAMAICA - While the Jamaican government’s efforts to increase renewable energy production have yet to produce significant results, some private enterprises are forging ahead on their own. Due to the prohibitively high cost of purchasing electricity...
Thursday, January 17, 2013
JBG to Grow Corn on 1,700-acre Property
JAMAICA - Jamaica Broiler Group (JBG) is producing corn for its own use and will likely operate the farm itself, said Ian Parsard, senior vice-president for operations and finance....
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tax Break on Jamaican Eggs
JAMAICA - Poultry producer, Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG) has received a five-year income tax waiver extension for a poultry division that will allow it to raise egg production by one-third to more than two million annually....
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
JBG Touts Ethanol, Haiti as Growth Areas After Flat Year
JAMAICA - Food and ethanol producer, Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG), expects an energised financial year having secured a market for its ethanol production....
Friday, July 27, 2012
Jamaica Broilers Lights Up Chicken Houses with Solar Plan
JAMAICA - Poultry farmers contracted by the Jamaica Broilers Group have been corralled into a green energy project that the poultry producer says will slice the cost of production through reduced electricity bills....
Monday, May 07, 2012
Isle Chix Ponders Poultry Operation Across Caribbean
JAMAICA - Managing Director of Isle Chix Limited, a Clarendon-based Jamaican poultry operation, Alexx Antaeus says his company is seriously considering expanding to Jamaica’s north coast and exporting to other Caribbean nations in light of the very...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Jamaica Broilers Lobbies US for Ethanol Tariff Incentive
JAMAICA - Jamaica Broilers Group (JB) is hoping it will get the US to extend its tariff incentive on ethanol by the time it fires up its plants in mid-2012. ...
Friday, February 17, 2012
CB Creates 'Smart Egg' for Low-Consumption Market
JAMAICA - Caribbean Broilers (CB) has placed a new nutrient-enriched 'smart egg' on the market, which is distinguished on supermarket shelves by its packaging inside a transparent circular tray that houses seven eggs....
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Jamaica Broilers Buys 1,700 Acres for Future Plans
JAMAICA - Jamaica's largest poultry producer Jamaica Broilers, has purchased 1,700 acres of land in Spring Garden, St Catherine in order to facilitate a number of initiatives it has in the works. ...
Friday, December 23, 2011
Jamaica Broilers' Profits Stifled by Imports
JAMAICA - The Jamaica Broilers Group has registered a nine per cent reduction in net profit for the quarter ended October 2011, despite increased revenues, but on the back of challenges with higher raw material costs, as well as competition from imports,...
Monday, October 10, 2011
No End in Sight to High Chicken Prices
JAMAICA - Leading chicken producers have warned that continuing high feed prices will push up the cost of Christmas poultry....
Monday, September 26, 2011
Jamaica Broilers' Net Profit Falls to $128 Million
JAMAICA - Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG) posted a loss for its ethanol operations, while it saw dramatic declines to its poultry and feed businesses' bottom lines. ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
High Maize Price Hits Jamaica Broilers
JAMAICA - Blaming the high cost of feed ingredients, Jamaica Broilers Group has reported a 40 per cent drop in half-year profits. ...
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Caribbean Broilers Backs Down on Chicken Feed
JAMAICA - Public pressure has forced Caribbean Broilers to scrap plans to use chicken waste parts to make poultry feedstock, although it's still looking at "prospects for export". ...
Monday, September 05, 2011
Poultry By-Product Use Splits Top Companies
JAMAICA - The country's two top poultry companies disagree about the use of poultry meal in poultry feeds....
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Broiler Company Promotes Pork Consumption
JAMAICA - Large agro-producer Caribbean Broilers Group (CBG) has invested over $400 million to get more Jamaicans eating pork despite anti-pork preferences of many Jamaican consumers. ...
Friday, March 11, 2011
Jamaica Broilers Profits Up 11 Per Cent in Q3
JAMAICA - In its third quarter ended January 2011, the Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG) continues to post positive results despite the soft demand for its sugar cane product, inflation increases and an ongoing reduction in interest rates....
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Ten Per Cent Rise in Chicken Meat Price Expected
JAMAICA - Jamaica Broilers has signalled that chicken meat prices are about to soar by as much as 10 per cent, as the cost of grain continues to rise in the United States....
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Jamaica Broilers Cut Chicken, Feed Prices
JAMAICA - Jamaica Broilers yesterday announced a roll back of chicken prices, poultry products and Hi Pro animal feeds....
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Chicken Prices Slashed in Jamaica
JAMAICA - A cut in poultry meat prices will reduce Jamaica Broilers' revenue by an estimated $4 million....
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Jamaica Broilers Refinances Debt
JAMAICA - On 27 July, Jamaica Broilers Group Limited (JBG) signed off on an agreement with the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) for a US$7 million loan to fund its operations and replace expensive bank debt....
Thursday, July 09, 2009
JBG Reports Strong Return on Ethanol Investment
JAMAICA - Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG) made $828 million in net profit for the fiscal year 2009 which ended 2 May, or an increase of 11.8 per cent year over year, while its ethanol division earned roughly the equivalent of one quarter of its initial US$20-million...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Jamaica Broilers Closes Ethanol Plant
JAMAICA - Jamaica Broilers has temporarily closed its ethanol plant to carry out essential maintenance, according to the company's new president and CEO, Christopher Levy....
Friday, December 19, 2008
Jamaica Broilers' Poultry Now Traceable
JAMAICA - Jamaica Broilers has installed a new traceability system to track its birds from farm to customer....
 
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