Carew & Co (Bangladesh) Ltd.

     

         Larger Kushtia district of Bangladesh is currently a heavy sugar producing industrial complex under Chuadanga district Carew & Co (Bangladesh) Ltd. traces its origin to the distillery established by the British businessman John Maxwell in 1803. He built the distillery in 𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐩𝐮𝐫,𝐔𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐫  𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐡, 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚. The first distillery in the subcontinent. The distillery was successful and started making profits for Maxwel. He hired Robert Russell Carew, spirits specialist. Carew was impressed by the result and bought out the factory with two other investors. Carew hired his younger brother as the manager. His brother died in the 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲  in 1857.

                   After the mutiny, Carew reopened the distillery with the support of British Army. The company became a joint-stock company in 1897. He opened branches in 𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐥, 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐧𝐢, and Darsana (East Bengal, which became East Pakistan in 1947). The equipment in the factories were made in  𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐠𝐨𝐰, 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝. In 1971 East Pakistan became independent Bangladesh after 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐫. The government of Bangladesh nationalised the distillery at Darsana in 1973 which became Carew & Co. (Bangladesh) Ltd.

         The distillery is a profit making company of the government and pays taxes to it as well. It has a 20 feet security wall and strong security system. It makes two kinds of liquor, domestic one using indigenous recipes and foreign ones that do not use indigenous recipes. It has 200 distribution agents and 13 country liquor distribution agents. It is also the largest producer of eth𝐚nol  in 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐡.