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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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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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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Kreuger & Toll that started their business in 1908, a couple of months after Ivar Kreuger had returned from America. Henrik Kreüger and Ivar Kreuger formed...
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Three on a match (section The "Ivar Kreuger" theory)
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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American writer Ayn Rand, inspired by the death of Swedish industrialist Ivar Kreuger. The play is set in a courtroom during a murder trial, and an unusual...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Norwegian politician Ivar Kleiven, Norwegian historian and poet Ivar Kreuger, Swedish businessman Ivar Langen, Norwegian rector Ivar Lassy, Finnish writer...
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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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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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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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William Randolph Hearst Asa Griggs Candler Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford Ivar Kreuger Howard Hughes Dhirubhai Ambani Sam Walton Warren Buffett Ted Turner Rupert...
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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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years of the new century, Jordahl met the young Swedish civil engineer Ivar Kreuger in the United States. They were both interested in reinforced concrete...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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(1858-1944), portraitist and miniaturist Emerik Stenberg (1873–1927), painter Ivar Kreuger (1880–1932), industrialist and financier Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), inventor...
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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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to a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. In typical Greene fashion, the seedy antihero wrestles with his conscience...
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