Émile-Justin Menier

French pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier, and politician (1826-1881)

In the history of enterprise, Émile-Justin Menier is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Émile-Justin Menier as French pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier, and politician (1826-1881).

Émile-Justin Menier was born at Paris in 1826. His recorded nationality is France.

Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.

He worked as politician, businessperson and entrepreneur.

His recorded holdings include Hôtel Emile-Justin Menier.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

Recognition followed: Officer of the Legion of Honour.

That the business was built from France shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Émile-Justin Menier died in 1881, aged 55. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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