GB Group
| Private | |
| Industry | Conglomerate |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Founder | Gilbert Bigio |
| Headquarters | Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Gilbert Bigio (Chairman) Reuven Bigio (CEO) |
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| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | gbgroup |
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.
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. In the 1980s, Gilbert Bigio became the majority shareholder and the plant has a virtual monopoly on steel in the Haitian market. In 1981, the group founded Huileries Haïtiennes, a refining plant of edible oil.
GB Group activities are diversified and spread in several areas, but are based on four known among other sectors:
- 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.
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