C. R. Evers & Co.

C. R. Evers & Co. was a Danish confectionary company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Evers brand is now owned by Carletti.

C. R. Evers & Co. 's factory in Copenhagen

History

C.R. Evers & Co. was founded by Christian Rudolph Evers (1821-1877) in 1867.[1] He had been educated as a pharmacist in 1843 but had later worked first as a merchant in Vejle and then as a brewer and manufacturer of candles in Ribe. In 1984 he was granted a royal monopoly on the production of a malt extract of his own invention. The malt extract came in a small tin box and was used for a preparation of a "tasty, potent beer-like drink". He was that same year also granted a patent on the malt extract in Sweden, Belgium, France, Austria and Hungary. The name C.R. Evers & Co. was adopted when the cost of obtaining these patents forced him to enter into a partnership with other investors.[2]

Evers' widow continued the company after his death in 1877. She completed a new factory on Peder Skrams Gade in Copenhagen's new Gammelholm neighbourhood.

Helmuth Brix acquired the company in 1886. He inaugurated a new factory at Østre Fasanvej 15 (now Nordre Fasanvej 101) in 1896. {{Illustreret Tidende]] brought an article about the company in connection with its 40 yearsanniversary.

The company was in 1924 acquired by A. Fredsted (born 1887) and C. Fjeldborg (born 1879).[3] The company was later in the century subject to a number of mergers and disappeared in the 1990s. The Evers brand is now owned hy Carletti.

Cultural references

In Hans Scherfig's Stolen Spring, it is a poisoned Evers Melt Drop that causes the sudden death of C. Blomme in Hans Scherfig's Stolen Spring

References
  1. Tommy Richard Fogh Andersen (8 April 2019). Blikskilte: Danske reklameskilte (in Danish). ISBN 9788771884586. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. Jørgen V. Grevsen, Hanne Kirkegaard, Edith Kruse & Poul R. Kruse. "De mindre og næsten glemte lægemiddelindustrivirksomheder" (PDF) (in Danish). Theriaca. Retrieved 15 April 2020.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. "G. Halkier & Co". coneliand.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
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