Using the Jamaica Broilers method, Salmon, in a humorous presentation to the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) Social Media Business Conference, held under the theme, “Likes To Profit”, at Jamaica Pegasus in New Kingston on Wednesday, said digital solutions have helped the Jamaica Broilers brand to grow.

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, has hailed the Jamaica Broilers Group for its US$2 million investment in a new pellet mill, which will significantly boost the company’s feed production capacity.

The decision by the Jamaica Broilers Group to invest US$2 million in an additional pellet mill at its Best Dressed feed facility in Old Harbour, St Catherine, is a ringing endorsement of its confidence in the growth potential of the economy, Christopher Levy, president and chief executive officer, disclosed yesterday.

Jamaica Broilers, the country’s largest poultry business operator has acquired a hatchery in Pennsylvania, United States as it looks to service markets both at home and abroad.

Poultry company Jamaica Broilers Group, led by the Levy family, is executing a three-year plan to restructure its management and operations.

CEO Charles Chambers said the commissioning of more than 830,000 barrels of storage will make WIP second only to Petrojam as the largest owner of fuel storage in Jamaica. The total storage is broken down as 65,000 barrels at the Ocho Rios Pier and 600, 000 at the former Jamaica Broilers ethanol plant, which it acquired last year and has now completely retrofitted to store gasolene, diesel and heavy fuel oil.

Poultry company Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG) earned $439 million for the second quarter, up eight per cent due to higher sales revenue.

Despite an increase in costs associated with its new Iowa plant, and foreign currency translation costs associated with US dollar-denominated expenses, Jamaica Broilers was able to improve earnings by two cents for the second quarter ended October 29, 2016.