Eveni Carruthers

The Official Eveni Carruthers YouTube Page.

Serving Samoa since 1929. 

The launching of our YouTube page marked another step in the journey of I.H.Carruthers Ltd as an established merchant in Samoa since it was first started 86 years ago by Irving "Eveni" Carruthers of Vailima. Irving Carruthers was the son of Richard Irving Hetherington Carruthers, a Scotsman from Melbourne who first came to Samoa as a lawyer for Robert Louis Stevenson in the 1890s. First established as a cocoa and copra merchant in 1925, I.H.Carruthers set up a network of trading stations which were serviced by inter-island schooners throughout Samoa and neighbouring islands. During the 1950s to the early 1970s I.H Carruthers had practically a trading station in every village in Upolu, Manono and Savaii. The decline in the cocoa and copra industry scaled back I.H. Carruthers commodity trading activities to Apia and Salelologa and focused on retailing of goods and services for the villages.