The company was founded in ***9 with the primary objective of collecting and processing by-products from Danish slaughter- houses for pet food and pharmaceuticals. During the ***0s, BHJ expanded into meat trading activities, manufacturing of func- tional animal proteins for food, processing lines for the meat processing industry, and transport services.
Internationalization set in during the ***0s with the establish-ment of subsidiaries and an international network of distributors.
At the end of the ***0s, BHJ decided to focus on the core business areas, and non-core activities were divested. BHJ was listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange in ***8 and delisted in ***4, when The Lauridsen Group, Inc., LGI, acquired the company. Today, BHJ A/S is a streamlined business focusing on the three core business areas - Protein Foods, Food and Pet Food.