Jungle Water Group, Inc. is a diversified Liberian investment group with businesses spanning energy, hospitality, consumer products, telecommunications and mobile financial services, general merchandise and distribution, and petroleum.
We believe businesses endure when they understand the markets and communities they serve.
The Group's story began not with a corporate strategy, but with entrepreneurship: identifying opportunities, responding to real needs, and finding practical ways to build livelihoods in a challenging environment.
From those beginnings, Jungle Water Group has grown into a portfolio of businesses serving households, communities, institutions, and businesses across Liberia.
Yet the philosophy behind the Group remains much the same. We believe businesses endure when they understand the markets and communities they serve, earn trust, solve real problems, and create opportunity beyond the business itself.
Long before there was a company, the founder earned his livelihood through artisanal mining. Like many others, he spent long days working in and around the waters that sustained local communities. Those waters provided far more than a natural resource: food, livelihoods, and, for many families, the opportunity to build a better future.
Among local mining communities, it was common to believe that success in mining required sacrifices to the ancestors. The founder came to see things differently. Rather than attributing opportunity to ritual, he believed the greatest gift had always been the water itself. It quietly sustained generations of families, provided livelihoods, and created opportunities where few others existed.
He made himself a promise: if he were ever fortunate enough to build a successful business, he would name it after the very thing that had made that journey possible: the jungle water.
That promise became the foundation of Jungle Water Group.
Today, the name serves as a constant reminder of where the journey began and of the belief that business should remain connected to the communities that make it possible.
Our name is more than our identity. It is a reminder of our purpose.
The principles that have shaped Jungle Water Group since its beginnings continue to guide how we lead, invest, and grow.
Our beginnings continue to shape who we are.
The Jungle Water name connects us to the communities, experiences, and opportunities from which the Group emerged. As we grow, we believe it is important never to lose sight of those origins or the responsibility they represent.
Family is woven into the identity of Jungle Water Group.
Many of the Group's businesses carry the names of people who have shaped its journey. Jackie's was named in honor of the founder's wife, Jacqueline Floyd. Mother House preserves the memory of his mother and the family home that became part of the Group's hospitality portfolio.
These names reflect a belief that enduring businesses, like enduring families, are built on trust, loyalty, shared purpose, and a responsibility to leave something meaningful for those who follow.
Jungle Water Group has grown by understanding Liberia rather than simply applying business models developed elsewhere.
Our approach to entrepreneurship is practical, adaptive, and rooted in local realities. We believe successful businesses are built by solving real problems, earning trust, building long-term relationships, and responding to the needs of the communities we serve.
Rather than pursuing growth for its own sake, we focus on building businesses that are resilient, relevant, and capable of creating lasting value within Liberia’s unique operating environment.
At the heart of Jungle Water Group is a belief that business should create opportunity.
Our founder often describes this vision simply as “taking Liberia out of Monrovia.”
For us, that means creating alternative livelihoods, investing in the counties, and expanding economic opportunity in communities that have historically received less investment and attention, beginning with our home county of Nimba.
We believe lasting national development depends on thriving local economies, empowered entrepreneurs, and businesses that create meaningful opportunities wherever they operate.
To help take Liberia out of Monrovia by building thriving businesses, creating sustainable livelihoods, and expanding opportunities that strengthen communities across the country.
To build enduring businesses that create employment, strengthen local economies, and expand opportunity across Liberia through disciplined investment, practical entrepreneurship, and trusted long-term partnerships.
We measure our success not only by the businesses we build, but by the integrity with which we build them, the opportunities we create, and the legacy we leave behind.
“Our reputation is the only property we own.”
Six sectors, one shared approach: practical needs, trusted relationships, and long-term investment.
