Carreras Tobacco Celebrates its Jubilee

(Jamaica Gleaner) Carreras Limited is celebrating 50 years in Jamaica and has had a rich history. From as early as the 1930s Carreras United Kingdom (UK) had been selling some of its cigarette brands in Jamaica. In the late 1950s to the early 1960s, those cigarettes were distributed by Bonitto Brothers.
In 1962 Carreras of Jamaica was registered, "to carry on business as tobacco and cigar merchants and importers of and dealers in tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, snuff, matchlights, pipes and any other articles required by or useful to smokers ..." In 1963, the company was the first Jamaican company to establish a manufacturing plant in post-independent Jamaica. Continued