Queswell Ferguson

Commonwealth Brewery became a publicly owned company in 2011 with 25 percent of the shares held by Bahamian individuals and institutions. There are three thousand local shareholders who have altogether invested more than 62.5 million dollars. In addition to the 150,000 square-foot brewery sprawled across almost 20 acres at Clifton Pier where Kalik, Heineken, Guinness, Vitamalt, Ole Nassau and Ron Ricardo rums are produced, the company distributes 70-plus labels of beer, wines and spirits, and owns 52 retail stores throughout The Bahamas. CBL has some 380 Bahamian employees, three warehouses and a major recycling plant that produces more than 50% of the brewery’s bottles.