2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Swedish entrepreneur who built the world's largest match monopoly — controlling two-thirds of global match production — and who financed his empire through fraudulent bonds sold to American investors, creating history's most sophisticated financial fraud before dying (suicide or murder) in 1932 as the scheme collapsed.
Swedish consumer goods company that is the legitimate successor to Ivar Kreuger's match monopoly — and which Warren Buffett considered as an investment — currently making snus (Swedish tobacco pouches) and other nicotine products.