Harding confirmed as first Jamaica-based speaker for TEDx Aston loopnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from loopnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sandals founder Hon Gordon Butch Stewart, passes away in Miami - The St Kitts Nevis Observer thestkittsnevisobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thestkittsnevisobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Butch Stewart Q&A
The Sandals Resorts chain founder, who died on January 4 at age 79, turned a tiny business into a billion-dollar empire.
August 2008
Gordon ( Butch ) Stewart had a comfortable middle-class childhood on Jamaica s Honeymoon Bay, so his story doesn t qualify as a rags-to-riches tale. But he most certainly went to riches. Stewart began his career at the Dutch-owned Curacao Trading Company, where he earned enough in five years as a sales manager to open his own air-conditioner service and distribution business in 1968. That company, Appliance Traders Ltd., expanded rapidly and now sells a wide assortment of household and commercial appliances and supplies.
From the travel, tourism, hospitality and airline industries he influenced, condolenses poured in from around the globe for Gordon “Butch” Stewart, who died last Monday in Miami. He was 79 years old.