Julius Meinl I is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists Julius Meinl I as Austrian entrepreneur (1824–1914).
Julius Meinl I was born at Kraslice in 1824.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as entrepreneur.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
Julius Meinl I died in 1914, aged 90. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
