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 ๐๐๐ง๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ,๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ก, ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐. 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 ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฒ 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 ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ, ๐๐๐ญ๐ง๐ข, and Darsana (East Bengal, which became East Pakistan in 1947).