Carewell Industries Ltd was formally created and deployed as a legal entity as `PL Chemicals Limited` a public limited company on 8th June, 1984 at Pondicherry. The company was converted into a private limited company and the name of the company waschanged to `PL Chemicals Private Limited` on 25th September, 1997. Thereafter, the name of the company was changed to `Carewell Industries Private Limited` on 11th October, 2012. Once again, the company was converted into a public limited company and the name of the company was changed to `Carewell Industries Limited` on 9th May, 2013..

Carewell was originally promoted by VG Bhaskaran Nair, C. Sankara Menon, S Muthu Krishnan, RV Narsimhan, MS Subramanian, K. Hari and Thomas Chandy. The current promoters Mrs. R. Rathinamala and Saraa Mediaworks Private Limited became promoters of the company in February 2012 by way of preferential allotment and tookover the management and business of the company.

Carewell is engaged in marketing the mosquito repellent coils under the brand "ROOSTER". The company operates in Household Insecticide Industry. The company gets its products manufactured from third party manufacturers. The brand name "ROOSTER" is owned by the company through its wholly owned subsidiary, CKM Homecare Solutions Private Limited. It is also engaged in the marketing of incense sticks (agarbattis) in the brand name "Deo" and "Samraj".