Gordon "Butch" Stewart

Who is Gordon "Butch" Stewart?

Gordon "Butch" Stewart is a Jamaican businessman and the owner or Chairman of over two dozen companies throughout the Caribbean, North America and Great Britain. These companies include: Sandals Resorts, Beaches Family Resorts, Appliance Traders, Ltd., The Jamaica Observer, among others.

Stewart began working at the age of 17 as a salesman and eventually rose to become the sales manager of Dutch-owned Curacao Trading Company. After saving up some money, Stewart later left in 1968 to found his own business, Appliance Traders, Ltd. which specialized at first in manufacturing air conditioning units but has grown to sell almost everything. Stewart was a recipient of Caribbean World Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in Jamaica, and has been called one of Jamaica's most-admired businessmen, by Kamal King President of Cambridge College and Community Services Jamaica in an address to graduating students.