1. Ivar Kreuger: His Life and Work - The Atlantic
Kreuger, at the time of his death, controlled about 75 to 80 per cent of the world's match industry. On the continent of Europe there were only three countries ...
August 1932 Issue

2. Ivar Kreuger | Match King, Business Tycoon & Investor | Britannica Money
Dec 12, 2024 · The majority of Kreuger's transactions after 1925 took the form of long-term dollar loans to countries short of foreign currency in return for ...
Ivar Kreuger (born March 2, 1880, Kalmar, Swed.—died March 12, 1932, Paris) was a Swedish financier, known as “the match king,” who attempted to gain a worldwide monopoly over the production of matches.

3. The Rise and Fall of Ivar Kreuger and Swedish Match - Quartr Insights
Jul 6, 2023 · Kreuger's empire was fueled by aggressive mergers and acquisitions, government monopolies, and accounting tricks, making him a controlling force ...
On November 7, 2022 it became clear that a subsidiary of the American tobacco giant Philip Morris would become the majority owner of Swedish Match. Learn more about the rise and fall of Ivar Kreuger and Swedish Match in this article!

4. Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire - Case - Faculty & Research
Between 1913 and 1932, Ivar Kreuger, known as the "Swedish Match King," built a small, family-owned match business into a $600 million global match empire.
Taught in Evolution of Global Business. Globalization and corporate fraud are the central themes of this case on the international growth of Swedish Match in the interwar years. Between 1913 and 1932, Ivar Kreuger, known as the "Swedish Match King," built a small, family-owned match business into a $600 million global match empire. Despite the economic and political disruptions of the interwar period, Swedish Match owned manufacturing operations in 36 countries, had monopolies in 16 countries, and controlled 40% of the world's match production. Kreuger companies lent over $300 million dollars to governments in Europe, Latin America, and Asia in exchange for national match monopolies. Relying on international capital markets to finance acquisitions and monopoly deals, by 1929 the stocks and bonds of Kreuger companies were the most widely held securities in the United States and the world. After Kreuger's 1932 suicide, forensic auditors discovered that Kreuger had operated a giant pyramid scheme. His accounts were ridden with fictitious assets, the truth hidden in a maze of over 400 subsidiary companies. Swedish Match's deficits exceeded Sweden's national debt.
5. Business & Finance: Greatest Crook | TIME
During this “freedom from control” Ivar Kreuger mulcted the public of $560,000,000, gulled banks & bankers for another $164,000,000. Out of the $724,000,000 ...
Eleven days after a pistol shot in Paris put an end to Ivar Kreuger's fantastic dreams of a match empire, Price, Waterhouse & Co. sat down to audit the Kreuger books. Within a month they...
6. Business: Poor Kreuger | TIME
Ivar Kreuger's business life was known to only a handful of men. In making important transactions he usually revealed only part of the details to any one ...
See AlsoHo Pak-Kwong Father And MotherIvar Kreuger, 52, matchmaker and moneylender to many nations, arrived in Paris last week. His pallid face was whiter than usual, and drawn. He had just been in the U. S., seeking loans for his...
7. The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century ...
Jun 9, 2018 · Ivar formed Svenska Filmindustri, a company that dominated Swedish cinema and brought him great pleasure, though little money. SF, as the ...
Partnoy helps us untangle Kreuger's intricate international web of hidden bank accounts, secret deals, bond issues, and government monopolies to understand how Kreuger pulled off one of the greatest swindles in history.

8. A 3-part series on the life and death of Ivar Kreuger | Fortune
His Swedish Pulp Co. was the largest European producer of sulphite and sulphate pulp. His newspapers included the Svenska Dagbladet, one of the best papers of ...
This series by the poet Archibald MacLeish first appeared in Fortune’s May, June, and July 1933 issues.

9. [PDF] Ivar Kreuger's Contribution to U.S. Financial Reporting - CDN
Mar 8, 2017 · Ivar Kreuger," 1930, p. ... Thus America, and much of the world, was Kreuger-conscious. KREUGER SECURITIES. Kreuger issued a great variety of ...
10. How Ivar Kreuger's Matches Set the SEC on Fire - LinkedIn
Jan 15, 2020 · In the 1920s, Ivar Kreuger was known as the Match King. He controlled ninety percent of the world's match production and the stocks of his ...
In the 1920s, Ivar Kreuger was known as the Match King. He controlled ninety percent of the world’s match production and the stocks of his company, Kreuger and Toll, were the most-owned securities in America.
11. ARCHIVES OF BUSINESS: A ROGUES GALLERY; Ivar Kreuger
Dec 7, 1986 · IVAR Kreuger, the Swedish match king, may have been the biggest thief of all time. Mr. Kreuger, a mechanical engineer from Kalmar, Sweden, ...
Business|ARCHIVES OF BUSINESS: A ROGUES GALLERY; Ivar Kreuger: Sweden's Match King

12. TCH: Ivar Kreuger - LinkedIn
Jul 25, 2022 · Kreuger needed to appear in good financial position to raise the money he promised certain governments but the markets were in turmoil and the ...
What do matches and money have in common? Not much perhaps, except that one man seemed an especially powerful supplier of each. Ivar Kreuger is possibly the person whose fame has diminished the most in the last century of financial history.