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Redefining the way the world goes on vacation
January 15, 2021
Legendary Jamaican entrepreneur Gordon “Butch” Stewart, one of the hospitality industry’s most vibrant personalities and founder of Sandals Resorts International, the world’s leading all-inclusive resort company, died at the age of 79 on January 4, 2021. An unstoppable force, who delighted in defying the odds by exceeding expectations, Stewart single-handedly built the world’s most awarded vacation brand from one resort in Jamaica to over two dozen distinct resorts and villas throughout the Caribbean, redefining the way the world goes on vacation.
A son of Jamaica, Butch Stewart was born in Kingston on July 6, 1941, and grew up along the island country’s North Coast, a tropical paradise that now boasts several of his Luxury Included® Sandals and Beaches Resorts and where his love of the sea, dominoes, and free enterprise were sown. Certain from the start that he wanted to run his own company, at the tender
Frederick “Toots” Hibbert and Gordon “Butch” Stewart.
Late reggae pioneer Frederick “Toots” Hibbert and business mogul Gordon “Butch” Stewart will be posthumously honoured with the Keys to the City of Kingston by the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC).
Deputy Mayor, Councillor Winston Ennis, said that the presentations will be made in February following the passage of the necessary resolutions.
“The City of Kingston has lost one of Jamaica’s greatest and most successful sons in Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart at the start of this year.
“The Administration intends to honour his memory and that of the late Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert by posthumously presenting both with the Keys to the City of Kingston,” he noted.
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.
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