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GB Group S.A. is a diversified business conglomerate based in
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. It is a parent company of over a dozen industrial and trading companies with operations concentrated in Haiti,
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, Saint Maarten and offices in the
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collaborating with more than 4,000 employees and in more than 15 countries companywide in business organizations.


History

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.


Subsidiaries

GB Group activities are diversified and spread in several areas, but are based on four known among other sectors:


Construction

*Aciérie d'Haïti – Steel Distributor and wood. Once seen as the largest Haitian private company, it remains today the largest company in construction materials. *Immocaraïbes – Property developer specializing in Caribbean architecture.


Consumer goods

*Huileries Haïtiennes (HUHSA) – Consumer goods. Edible oil refining plant in the beginning, is now Huhsa also a manufacturer of soap to detergent, from margarine and exclusive distributor for Haiti several international companies; become the largest supplier of consumer goods.


Energy

*GB Energy – Operating a network of over 200 gas stations in the Caribbean as the license holder for the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and
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/St. Martin. 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. DINASA wholesales and provides provides commercial and industrial clients with aviation fuel, LPG, diesel, fuels, bitumen, fuel oil and lubricants services along with its sister company ''Sodigaz'', a propane dispenser.


Telecommunications

*Telecom Solutions – Distributor of mobile phones and prepaid cards for Digicel in Haiti. Joint venture with the Facey Commodity Company (
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-based). GB Group is also a founding partner of Unigestion Holding, parent company of
Digicel Digicel is a Jamaican-based Caribbean mobile phone network and home entertainment provider operating in 25 markets worldwide. Digicel has operated in several countries, including Guyana, Fiji, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Samoa, St. Lucia, Surinam ...
Haiti.


References

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