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Bashco Trading Company
Bashco
Trading Company
Bashco Trading Company, billed as “The Store That
Gives You More” was founded about 26 years ago in
Kingston, Jamaica, by Gassan Azan, its current Chairman
& CEO. “There was a niche market in the wholesale
business,” says Elias Azan, Director of Operations and
Gassan’s cousin. “Goods were being imported from the
Far East and, in the majority of cases were being sold
wholesale to vendors in Jamaica.”At that time, Bashco’s
travelling salesmen started selling mostly household
and haberdashery wholesale goods across the country.
Over the years, demand shifted from wholesale to
retail and the company grew and expanded its network
of stores. “The business has evolved, now, where it has
moved from just one location, to where we now have
12 full-service, retail stores and three warehouses,” says
Elias. In addition to its three Kingston locations, there
are two Bashco outlets in the island’s second-largest
AT A GLANCE
Bashco Trading
Company
WHAT: A retail company with
12 outlets
WHERE: Kingston, Jamaica
The store that gives you more
city, Montego Bay, as well
as in Sav-la-Mar, Man-
deville, Ocho Rios, May
Pen, Santa Cruz, Spanish
Town, and Linstead. The
company employs over
900 people.
Elias believes that Bash-
co maintains its market
lead as one of Jamaica’s
top retailers for house-
hold goods, haberdashery,
clothing, electronics, appliances, furniture, and more, by constantly upgrading its stores and
offering its customers a better shopping experience. “Over the last several years, what we have
done is build out new stores, and changed some locations,” he explains. “And, within the last