KEM

Detroit. Michigan, USA

In late 1940s and 1950s the Kem Co. was a famous manufacturer of advertising lighters in shape of bottles and cans made both

of metal or plastic. It printed Pepsi-Cola labels on existing metal bottle lighters in 1944 before switching to plastics in 1955.


The plastic Pepsi-Cola advertising cigarette lighter was manufactured in 1955 in Detroit, Michigan in the United States by Kem for Pepsi-Cola Company (now PepsiCo).