A company started is like a seed you sow, where it all ends up no one will know. During its growth you can always track it’s worth. The roots and its foundation the nourished soil in which you choose and the water to keep it fed. The air and the sunlight, the nourishment so right. Then the yield and its harvest, that’s when you’re at your best.
Alan G. Heron
Alan Heron CEO and cofounder of Jamaica Foreign Traders. He was born
in Jamaica W.I. on January 9th 1947. During the year 1953, he
visited Denbigh Clarendon to see Queen Elizabeth 11, just after she
was inaugurated the queen of England the same year, and after her
father’s death 2 years before. Even as a young boy, Alan was
impressed by her beauty and her close resemblance to his Aunt Mina
Anderson, whom he had accompanied to this extraordinary event. In
1959 Alan attend Ardenne High School, which was the same year Fidel
Castro defeated Batista and his massive army to become the president
of Cuba. It was Batista siding with the US government to sign a
treaty, leasing Guantanamo Bay to the US that drove Castro to side
with the communist. It was the history of Fidel Castro that
impressed Alan tremendously, which caused a lifetime of strength,
determination and courage to overcome unimaginable obstacles. After
graduating from high school in 1964, he joined his father and
partner in the CD Alexander Co business. During this period he
started Heron International, a real-estate and development Co. There
he was able to meet with Colonel Herbert Julian, who was a
representative for Victory Carriers an affiliate of the Onasis
Shipping Line Company. This company later invested $250,000,000.00
into Heron’s international Co in order to purchase two major sugar
companies. In 1972 Alan entered the political arena in Jamaica and
retired in 1976 to migrate to Costa Rica along with his family. A
few years later he then migrated to the United States where he
started Heron International USA, and manufactured Pirates Gold Rum
and Pirates Gold Rum punch in Kingston Jamaica to be imported to the
United States. During this period, he owned many different clubs,
liquor stores, real estate and home construction. After all those
years he decided to go into the fish industry.