National Rums of Jamaica

National Rums of Jamaica is a private company, founded in 1980 to serve as a holding company for failing Jamaican rum distilleries, and to legally separate them from the sugar estates that own them. It is one of the largest producers of rum in the Caribbean and exports 60% of the island's bulk rum, mostly to major brands such as Diageo's Captain Morgan and Sazerac's Myers's Rum. The company is jointly owned in equal shares by the state-run Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ), the West Indies Rum Distillery, and Demerara Distillers, following partial privatization from the SCJ's original complete ownership. Currently, NRJ owns the Long Pond Distillery outright, and 73% of Clarendon Distillers Ltd., and it owned Innswood Distillery until it was shuttered. Besides supplying bulk rum, NRJ also ages and sells rum under its own house brand, Monymusk.