请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 GB Group
释义

  1. History

  2. Subsidiaries

     Construction  Consumer goods  Energy  Telecommunications 

  3. References

{{Infobox company |
| name = GB Group S.A.
| logo =
| type = Private
| industry = Conglomerate
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1972}}
| defunct =
| location = Port-au-Prince, Haiti
| founder = Gilbert Bigio
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = Gilbert Bigio (Chairman)
Reuven Bigio (CEO)
| parent =
| subsid = {{unbulleted list|Aciérie d'Haïti|GB Energy|Huileries Haïtiennes|Immocaraïbes|Citadelle United|Lafito Global|Republic|Southern Steel|Telecom Solutions}}
| products = {{unbulleted list|Agriculture|Construction|Consumer goods|Energy|Financial|Infrastructure|Logistics|Media|Trading}}
| homepage = {{url|gbgroup.com}}
}}GB Group S.A. is a diversified business conglomerate based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is a parent company of over a dozen industrial and trading companies with operations concentrated in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Saint Maarten and offices in the United States collaborating with more than 4,000 employees and in more than 15 countries companywide in some of the world’s top business organizations.[1][2][3]

History

In 1972, founder Gilbert Bigio was part of a group of investors who inaugurates Aciérie d'Haïti (Haiti Steelworks), the first steel plant in the country.[4] In the 1980s, Gilbert Bigio became the majority shareholder and the plant has a virtual monopoly on steel in the Haitian market.[5] In 1981, the group founded Huileries Haïtiennes, a refining plant of edible oil.

Subsidiaries

GB Group activities are diversified and spread in several areas, but are based on four known among other sectors:

Construction

  • Aciérie d'Haïti - Steel Distributor and wood. Once seen as the largest Haitian private company, it remains today the largest company in construction materials.
  • Immocaraïbes - Property developer specializing in Caribbean architecture.

Consumer goods

  • Huileries Haïtiennes (HUHSA) - Consumer goods. Edible oil refining plant in the beginning, is now Huhsa also a manufacturer of soap to detergent, from margarine and exclusive distributor for Haiti several international companies; become the largest supplier of consumer goods.

Energy

  • GB Energy - Operating a network of over 200 gas stations in the Caribbean as the license holder for the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Saint-Marteen.
- In January 2016 GB Group sold to Groupe financier national its 50% stake of Distributeurs nationaux, S.A. (DINASA), the only integrated oil and gas Company in Haiti which provides aviation fuel, LPG, diesel, fuels, bitumen, fuel oil and lubricants services along with its sister company Sodigaz, a propane dispenser.

Telecommunications

  • Telecom Solutions - Distributor of mobile phones and prepaid cards for Digicel in Haiti. Joint venture with the Facey Commodity Company (Jamaica-based). GB Group is also a founding partner of Unigestion Holding, parent company of Digicel Haiti.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150702005779/en/Haiti%E2%80%99s-Port-Lafito-Officially-Opens |title=Haiti’s Port Lafito Officially Opens - Haiti’s first Panamax Port Positioned to Benefit National Economy |editor=Merkin, Josh |date=2 July 2015 |publisher=Businesswire |accessdate=21 December 2015}}
2. ^[https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=59744820 Bloomberg Business - GB Group SA]
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/263596/haitian-newsweekly-challenges-launches-english.html |title=Haitian Newsweekly 'Challenges' Launches English Site |editor=Guaglione, Sara |date=1 December 2015 |publisher=Media Post |accessdate=21 December 2015}}
4. ^Aciérie d'Haïti
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.joc.com/some-wealthy-haitians-are-facing-reversal-fortune_19920624.html |title=Some Wealthy Haitians Are Facing Reversal of Fortune |editor=Oppenheimer, Andres |date=24 June 1992 |publisher=JOC |accessdate=21 December 2015}}

3 : Companies of Haiti|1972 establishments in Haiti|Companies based in Port-au-Prince

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/9/23 4:33:41