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.

[1] 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.

[1] In 1883, together with Moses Melchior, Beckett & Meyer had also acquired Københavns Hesteskofabrik, a horseshoe 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).

[4] Meyer is one of the businessmen featured in Peder Severin Krøyer's monumental 1895 oil-on-canvas group portrait painting From Copenhagen Stock Exchange in Børsen.

He died on 12 September 1929 in Vedbæk and is buried at the Jewish Western Cemetery in Copenhagen.