page_title: Louis Meyer (businessman)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Meyer (businessman) / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Københavns Hesteskofabrik on Tagensvej in the 1880s.
context_page_description: Louis Meyer was a Danish businessman. His company, Beckett & Meyer, a wholesale company, was after his death continued by his son Ernst Meyer.
context_section_description: In March 1866, Meyer established his own firm in a partnership with H. L. Beckett, a colleague from Moses & Søn G. Melchior, under the name Beckett & Meyer. They started out by trading in sugar, soon establishing an import of brown sugar from Scotland, a product that gained widespread popularity in Denmark during the 1870s. H. L. Beckett left the company in 1879. A. Abrahamson was a few years later made a partner in the firm but left it again when Meyer's son Ernst Meyer became a partner in 1906. The boom in the Danish sugar industry of the 1880s made it necessary for the firm to move into other markets of which coffee was the by far most important.
  Beckett & Meyer established an import of fertilizers in 1884 but this business was in 1897 sold to A/S Dansk svovlsyre- og superfosfatfabrik. The firm then began to trade in molasses and dried blood for animal feed.
  In 1883, together with Moses Melchior, Beckett & Meyer had also acquired Københavns Hesteskofabrik, a horse shoe factory on Tagensvej, which after a while obtained a dominant position on the Danish market. Beckett & Meyer bought Moses Melchior's share of the firm in 1902 and converted it into a limited company (aktieselskab).
  In around 1900, Beckett & Meyer also began to trade in syrup, cigars  and tobacco. He was a board member of De Danske Spritfabrikker.
caption: Kjøbenhavns Hesteskofabrik
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