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    Ivar Kreuger (Swedish: [ˈǐːvar ˈkry̌ːɡɛr]; 2 March 1880 – 12 March 1932) was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. In 1908...
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  • been invented in the mid- to late 1920s by the Swedish match tycoon Ivar Kreuger in an attempt to get people to use more matches, but it appears he merely...
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  • Kreuger & Toll was a construction and holding company founded on May 18, 1908, by two Swedish engineers, Ivar Kreuger and Paul Toll, with Henrik Kreüger...
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  • Henrik Kreüger (1882–1953), Swedish engineer Ivar Kreuger (1880–1932), Swedish entrepreneur and "Match King"; failed speculator or swindler Kurt Kreuger (1916–2006)...
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    Swedish Match (category Ivar Kreuger)
    the Philippines. The company's origins can be traced back to 1868, and Ivar Kreuger. Swedish Match has played an important part in Sweden's industrial development...
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    conjurer who used a solar microscope which he claimed could detect disease. Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish "Match King", who ran a worldwide Ponzi scheme in the 1920s...
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    banker. Kreuger was born in Kalmar, a son of Ernst August Kreuger [sv], and a brother of Ivar Kreuger. He was married three times, first to Elsa Anna Cecilia...
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    Matchstick Palace (category Ivar Kreuger)
    "Match King" Ivar Kreuger (1880–1932) as the headquarters of the Swedish match company Svenska Tändsticks AB. It was designed by architect Ivar Tengbom (1878-1968)...
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  • Norwegian politician Ivar Kleiven, Norwegian historian and poet Ivar Kreuger, Swedish businessman Ivar Langen, Norwegian rector Ivar Lassy, Finnish writer...
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    construction engineer and co-founder, together with Ivar Kreuger, of the construction company Kreuger & Toll. Paul Toll was born in the parish of Berga...
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  • is the parent company of Libresse, was founded in Sweden in 1929 by Ivar Kreuger as a paper packaging company. The company is a global hygiene and health...
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    Kramer / Jack Haskins Der Zündholzkönig – Der Fall Ivar Kreuger [de] (1967, TV film) — Ivar Kreuger L'Homme qui valait des milliards [de] (1967) — Muller...
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  • William Randolph Hearst Asa Griggs Candler Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford Ivar Kreuger Howard Hughes Dhirubhai Ambani Sam Walton Warren Buffett Rupert Murdoch...
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    International Mercantile Marine Company the match companies controlled by Ivar Kreuger, the Match King Other companies also formed trusts, such as the Motion...
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  • determined whether Faithfull's death was homicide, suicide, or accident. Ivar Kreuger (52), a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist...
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  • from Nybro. His father, Folke Engström, worked for the industrialist Ivar Kreuger. In 1926, his father received the opportunity from his employer to move...
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  • seeking ways to provide restitution for the losses of his investors. Ivar Kreuger, a Swedish businessman known as the "match king", built a Ponzi scheme...
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    was partly funded by Ivar Kreuger, an international financier. The company was renamed Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson. Kreuger started showing interest...
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    SCA (company) (category Ivar Kreuger)
    SCA was founded by Ivar Kreuger on 27 November 1929 as a holding company for ten Swedish forest industry companies. Following Kreuger's bankruptcy in 1932...
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    William played an industrialist based on real-life Swedish entrepreneur Ivar Kreuger, himself nicknamed the "Match King", who attempts to corner the global...
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  • (1862–1938), author Stig Anderson (1931–1997), music producer, manager of ABBA Ivar Kreuger (1880–1932), financier and industrialist Carl Edvard Johansson (1864–1943)...
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    Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Oswego, New York, and Cloquet, Minnesota. In 1932, Ivar Kreuger took control of more than 52% of the shares.[citation needed] The Diamond...
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    firms. The official monopoly had been acquired by Swedish entrepreneur Ivar Kreuger, the "Match King", which made him a very rich man and remained in effect...
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    and acquired many of the holdings of the disgraced safety-match tycoon Ivar Kreuger. In Mexico in the 1930s, he was in economic alliance with Maximino Ávila...
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  • The Match King (category Ivar Kreuger)
    Damita, and follows the rise and fall of Swedish safety match tycoon Ivar Kreuger. Based on the novel by Einar Thorvaldson, the film was released on December...
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    Russian-American author Ayn Rand, inspired by the death of the "Match King", Ivar Kreuger. Set in a courtroom during a murder trial, an unusual feature of the...
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  • it was known as at the time, was the main bank of Swedish businessman Ivar Kreuger, the founder of Swedish Match AB, and was struck hard by the financial...
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    of the 1920s, he designed the Matchstick Palace, the main office of Ivar Kreuger's corporation Svenska Tändsticksbolaget at Trädgårdsgatan in Stockholm...
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  • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals, about the 1920s markets and Ivar Kreuger, who many consider...
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    in their relation to Ivar Kreuger and his financial empire so it was not much affected by the Kreuger crash following Kreuger's death in 1932. Handelsbanken...
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