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Gertz was a New York-based department store, headquartered in Jamaica, Queens. Founded in 1918 by Benjamin Gertz, along with his five sons, [1] the company was acquired by Allied Stores in 1941. [2] [3] Gertz department store in Mid-Island Plaza in Hicksville, New York in 1957
Randy's record shop. He began recording local artists, becoming one of the first to issue locally recorded music on the island. [1] Early successes as a producer included ska singles by calypso singer Lord Creator, and one of the first singles issued by Island Records was Creator's "Independent Jamaica" in 1962, which was produced by Chin.
Robert Campbell was born on 7 May 1829, in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] He was described as being a "mulatto", the son of a white Scottish father and a mixed race mother.The years after Campbell's birth were turbulent in Jamaica, with economic impacts from the 1833 abolition of slavery and periodic cholera epidemics.
Lasco Jamaica: Conglomerates - Kingston: 1994 [3] Industrials, financials, pharma P A National Commercial Bank of Jamaica: Financials Banks Kingston: 1977 Banking P A Norman Manley International Airport: Industrials Transportation services Kingston: 1948 Airport P A Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica: Oil & gas Exploration & production Kingston ...
Courts is a furniture and electronics retailer, founded by William Henry Court in Canterbury, England in 1850.. In 1959, Courts opened its first store in Jamaica, and subsequently grew across the Caribbean.
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In 1826, two free coloureds, Edward Jordan and Robert Osborn, founded The Watchman, which openly campaigned for the rights of free coloureds, and became Jamaica's first anti-slavery newspaper. In 1830, Jamaican colonial authorities arrested Jordan, the editor, and charged him with constructive treason .
[37] [38] OfficeMax ImPress is an OfficeMax-branded web site for small business printing based on Vistaprint technologies. In 2008, Vistaprint announced a strategic partnership with Intuit , a supplier of accounting software , tying their service into Intuit's QuickBooks software using an Intuit-branded web site. [ 39 ]