In keeping with the Company’s vision “to be the most efficient, customer-centric and profitable distributor in the Caribbean”, the governance of MDS is underpinned by our values of delighting our customers, ensuring fulfilled employees, providing premium services and discharging

our responsibilities to the environment and our communities. As we grow and pursue our vision, we have strengthened our compliance and risk management, and a management structure that allows for agile decision-making but that is also sound and transparent. Through these efforts, we continue to improve our corporate governance, thereby maximising value for our shareholders.

The Company is committed to complying with all relevant corporate governance requirements; in particular with all applicable laws, the rules of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) and the Private Sector Organisation’s (PSOJ) Code of Corporate Governance. The Company’s internal governance framework, particularly its Articles of Incorporation, embodies all the principles needed to ensure that the Company is managed and supervised in a manner consistent with good corporate governance, including the necessary checks and balances.