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Financials |
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Revenues
for period |
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$13,779.4m |
Net
profit att. to shareholders |
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$636.7m |
Earnings
per stock unit |
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$1.95 |
1st Quarter 2008
(Un-audited) |
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The Hon. John
Joseph Issa, B.Sc., O.J., C.D., J.P.,
LL.D. (HONS.)
Director |
The Honourable John J. Issa is Executive
Chairman of Superclubs International
Ltd. and its subsidiaries. In 1976,
he introduced the first all inclusive
club hotel into the local tourism
industry with the development of Negril
Beach Village (now Hedonism II) and
Couples Hotel.
Mr. Issa became a Director of GraceKennedy Limited. on April 29,
1982. He also serves as a Director
on the Board of the Gleaner Company
Ltd., the Jamaica Stock Exchange and
Globe Insurance Company of the West
Indies Ltd., and is Chairman of the
Board of the Pegasus Hotels of Jamaica
Ltd. He has served as President of
the Jamaica Hotel & Tourist Association
from 1972 to 1974, and was Chairman
of several organisations including
the Jamaica Tourist Board, Jamaica
Vacations Ltd., Jamaica Reservation
Service and St. Ann Development Co.
Ltd. He has been accredited as Tourism
Consultant by the World Bank since
1979.
He received the Order of Distinction
in the Rank of Commander in 1983
and the Order of Jamaica in 1989
from the Government of Jamaica.
He was named Man of the Decade of
the 1980s by Investors’ Choice,
one of Jamaica’s leading business
magazines. The Jamaica Hotel and
Tourist Association, in 1990, named
him Hotelier of the Year, and in
1993 he received the International
Achievement Award from the American
Friends of Jamaica. He was twice
named Caribbean Hotelier of the
year – First by the Caribbean
Hotel Association (CHA) in 1994
and then by the Travel Agent Magazine
in 1996. The Northern Caribbean
University, in 1999, bestowed on
him an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree.
In May 2001 the Brazilian Government
honoured him with the Order of the
Southern Cross (Officer Rank). In
January 2002, the University of
the West Indies bestowed on him
the Legacy Award of Caribbean Luminary.
He attended College of the Holy
Cross in the USA where he graduated
with a Bachelor of Science degree
(Magna Cum Laude) in Business Administration.
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