VM Group’s ‘Rookie of the Year’ Banks On Integrity
Just 16 months into her first job out of university, Shanelle Gilzeane, treasury operations specialist at VM Group was named ‘Rookie of the Year’ by the organisation, a feat the 25-year-old said she owes to a gritty determination to excel, nurtured by her parents, including her cop dad who taught her never to compromise […]
Restructured VM Group To Build On Growth Momentum
The VM Group aims to build on the sustainable growth strategies which have led to a significant increase in market share in its key business lines over the past five years. While highlighting the organisation’s performance in 2022 at a recent VM Group Special Members’ Meeting, Group President and CEO, Courtney Campbell, informed attendees that […]
VM Group Transforms the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library
Users of the Junior Library section of the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library can now do so more comfortably, thanks to extensive refurbishing and beautification work undertaken by the VM Group for its 2023 Labour Day project. The Labour Day project builds on a broader partnership between the VM Foundation and the Jamaica […]
VM Group President’s Awardee, VM Foundation launch the Foster A Child fundraising project
The VM Group 2021 President’s Awardee, Tiffany-Joy Smith, has collaborated with the VM Foundation, to launch a Foster A Child fundraising project, in partnership with the For the Child (FTC) Foster Care Programme, aimed at boosting the national foster care programme. The project seeks to raise approximately $300,000 annually, to offset costs associated with […]
Special Olympics Jamaica welcomes VM Foundation’s support
VM Foundation & Chief Executive Officer Samantha Charles (right) presents a symbolic cheque to Special Olympics Jamaica (SOJ) swimmers (in pool, from left) Andrew Bartholomew, Andrew McIntosh, Tasheanna Bailey and Kadian Ingleton; and (background, from left) SOJ Executive Director Coleridge Howell and swim coaches Marissa Hayman, Alecia Newman Walsh and Brittany Williams at the University […]
VM Foundation, USAID impact youth in vulnerable communities through crime prevention and entrepreneurship project
THE VM Foundation has partnered with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Local Partner Development (LPD) programme, to execute a crime prevention and entrepreneurship training programme for youth in vulnerable communities in Kingston. The programme, dubbed Project IMPACT, engages 15 individuals in entrepreneurship and business development training, conflict resolution and […]
VM Wealth CEO champions transparency, accountability to boost investor confidence
The Jamaican securities industry is being urged to remain focused on being accountable and transparent to those it serves by keeping them informed through the principles of financial education. Rezworth Burchenson, CEO of VM Wealth Management Limited, said this has the potential to solve the complexities of many of the issues currently being faced […]
VM Investments Limited’s private equity investment in Coldbush Organics
VM Investments Limited (VMIL) said it took a five per cent stake in Coldbush Organics — a Jamaican chocolate company based in St Thomas. The investment was made in October 2018, but the VMIL only made the deal public earlier this week. It did not state the value of the deal. However, it noted the […]
VM Foundation gives big boost to Prayer Breakfast beneficiary
VMIL increases stake in kingston properties
VM Investments Limited (VMIL) has today acquired 135,483,871 units of Kingston Properties (KPREIT) shares for a combined consideration of $1,050,000,000. This transaction increases VMIL’s stake in KPREIT to a total of twenty-three per cent (23%), making KPREIT an associate company of VMIL. This is in line with the VM Group Vision of being a leading […]
