The history of the Carpenter Group goes back to 1862 when an American Civil War Captain, John Boulton Carpenter left his home in Connecticut seeking new opportunities in the East Indies and the Pacific. In 1914, his son Walter Randolph Carpenter founded W R Carpenter Company Limited in Sydney Australia with a capital of 1,000 pounds. From this fledging beginnings grew the W R Carpenter Group. The major growth in the Fiji Islands followed the acquisition of Brown and Joske Limited in 1936. Twenty years later the Carpenter Group undertook one of the largest business transactions in the Pacific Islands when it acquired Morris Hedstrom Limited.
This parent entity also fully owns the Carpenters PNG Group that operates extensive agricultural holdings and other commercial undertakings. The ultimate parent company of the Carpenter Group Pacific Operations is MBf Holdings Berhad, a Malaysian public company listed in the Bursa Malaysia.
The Carpenter Fiji Group is a diversified conglomerate and the largest private sector enterprise in Fiji employing over 3,000 people. The Group through its various businesses operates in all major cities and towns and islands in the Fiji archipelago and maintains the largest private sector data network to link all operations to its Head Office in the capital Suva.
Accolades
The Carpenter Group is a trusted household name signifying strength and stability in the islands and contributes significantly to the country’s GDP.
The Carpenter Group’s commercial operations include:
Chain of supermarket and departmental stores
Grocery wholesale trade
Automobile sales and service (agents for brands such as Hyundai, Nissan, Honda, Isuzu etc)
Heavy and light machinery sales and service
Tyre retail
IT System and Retail services
Ship agency
Air and sea freight forwarding
Custom house agency
Heavy transport contractors
Commercial waste disposal
Consumer finance and credit card operations
Properties
Since it commenced business in 2008, Carpenters Motors Lubricants has been delivering customer Lubricant expectation in the following lines of Business:
Automotive
Industrial
Marine
Aviation
Supply flexibility enable us to offer small or large customers a wide range of products in virtually any size. It has and it is our intention to offer products and services that add value to your business, to our business relationship and to the Mobil brand.
A dedicated in house Lubricants Engineer provides technical solution with expert advice and recommendation. Supported by Exxon Mobil Lubricants and Specialist, Carpenters Lubricants extends Signum used oil sampling to its Industrial, Marine and Aviation customer base. Oil is the lifeblood of equipment. Just as people have blood taken to check their health, oil in equipment must be periodically sampled and analysed to check its “health” as well.
Carpenter Motors Lubricants is your One stop Lubricant Solution offering PEACE OF MIND.
