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In 1894 its partners were Alfred Ernst Brandt, Arthur Henry Brandt, and
Augustus Ferdinand Brandt. Henry Bernhard Brandt and Augustus Philip Brandt also became partners in 1895 but Alfred had ceased to be a partner in the following year. Rudolph Ernst Brandt joined the firm in 1898, replacing Arthur.
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Brandt had capital of 0.35 million pounds in 1880 rising to 0.75 million pounds by 1904 and one million by 1914. Brandt's was a founding member of the
Accepting House Committee that was set up at the beginning of the First World War and acceptances accounted for a substantial part of its business. By
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Other subsidiaries included a successful timber and forest products business that was established by a
Russian cousin after the revolution. This was extended to being the sole agency business for all Polish forest products via a joint venture with Paged in the 1980s. The family also managed one of
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Russian interests also included sugar refineries, sawmills, cordage factories, tanneries, iron foundries, cotton mills, and wharfs. Several members of the family held prominent positions with Wilhelm becoming consul for the city of Hamburg and in 1832 Edmund became United States consul in
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The London business prospered and as a result of growing trade with Russia, it became fully independent in 1865. Some years earlier the firm had to a large extent left the purely merchanting business and turned more to the merchant banking side by giving advances on an acceptance basis against
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Calcutta house of Scholvin and Co. in 1886 and thereby extended its interests to India. The company had the name William Brandt's Sons and Company Limited at the time with offices at 4 Fenchurch Avenue in the City of London.
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1914, acceptance liabilities in Russia accounted for less than 10 percent of Brandt's business and the largest portion of acceptance business was with the United States (almost 35 percent).
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Brandt's sold 1/3 of their shares to
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