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Story Of The Fabulous Financier Who Made Millions From Matches.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible.
Published by Andre Deutsch, London, UK, 1961
251 Pages, Hardback
Biography of the engineer and German Match King who, between the two world wars, built a financial empire and controlled some two-thirds of the world wide match market.
Biography if Ivar Kreuger, Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist, who, in 1908 co-founded the construction company Kreuger & Toll Byggnads AB which specialized in new building techniques. By aggressive investments and innovative financial instruments he built a global match and financial empire. Between the two world wars, he negotiated match monopolies with European and Central and South American governments, and finally controlled between two thirds and three quarters of the worldwide match production, and became known as the “Match King”.
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