GHC Reid & Co. Ltd

G.H.C. Reid & Company, Ltd. is a local family owned and operated business. It has been in operation since 1907 and it was founded by George Henry Charles Reid with one partner initially as a wholesale and retail grocery supermarket. It also became the Lloyds of London agent in 1914 and remains its agent to this day. Its one of only a handful of agents globally that has celebrated over 100 years as a Lloyds of London agent providing cargo and marine surveys. By 1921, G.H.C. Reid owned the company outright. In the early 1980s, G.H.C. Reids grandson, High Chief Lealaifuaneva Sir Peter E. Reid, Jr., became the sole owner of the business and refocused the company on becoming the largest beverage distributor in the American Samoa islands by securing exclusive distributorship agreements with Coca-Cola Enterprises and Samoa Breweries, Ltd. (Vailima beer bottlers) initially just to name a few. The company continued to add to its portfolio with premium brands from the U.S.A., New Zealan...