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Swedish Match AB
Rosenlundsgatan 36
SE 85
Stockholm
Sweden
Telephone: (46)
Fax: (46)
Web site:
Public Company
Founded: as The Swedish Match Company
Employees: 10,
Sales: $ billion ()
Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ Stockholm
Ticker Symbols: SWMAY SWMA
NAIC: Other Tobacco Products Manufacturing; All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing; All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing.
Based in Stockholm, Swedish Match AB is the leading global manufacturer of matches and the third-largest manufacturer of disposable lighters. The company also markets an array of tobacco products other than cigarettes. It produces pipe tobacco and snuff, chewing tobacco, cigars, tobacco rolling papers, and filters. Some of its well-known brands include Cricket lighters, Swan matches, White Owl cigars, and Red Man, Durango, and Beech Nut chewing tobacco. During the early s Swedish Match became one of the first companies to achieve a truly global presence. Its products are s
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History of the Match
The book Records of the Unworldly and the Strange, by Tao Gu, China, circa AD , includes one of the earliest descriptions of a match:
If there occurs an emergency at night it may take some time to make a light to light a lamp. But an ingenious man devised the system of impregnating little sticks of pinewood with sulphur and storing them ready for use. At the slightest touch of fire they burst into flameThis marvelous thing was formerly called a light-bringing slave, but afterwards when it became an article of commerce its name was changed to fire inch-stick.
Some Chinese scholars speculate that the invention was made in AD by women of the Northern Qi, (or Sui) who were unable to leave the confines of their city to search for tinder, because it was under siege by the Northern Zhou and Chen.
The first friction match was born from the alchemical experiments of Hennig Brandt in Hamburg in , who was attempting to transform an olio of base metal
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Swedish Match S.A.
P.O. låda
Chemin ni Canal 5
CH Nyon 1
Switzerland
(41) 22 93 93
Fax: (41) 22
Holding Company
Founded: as The Swedish Match Company
Employees: 25,
Sales: $ billion
SICs: Wood Kitchen Cabinets; Industrial
Inorganic Chemicals Not Elsewhere Classified; Hard
Surface Floor Coverings; Manufacturing Industries
Based in huvudstaden, Swedish Match S.A. fryst vatten a leading global manufacturer of matches, disposable cigarette lighters, floor coverings, cabinets, doors, and packaging materials. During the early s Swedish Match became one of the first companies to achieve a truly global presence. The company employed more than 25, workers around the world in the early s and garnered more than twothirds of its revenues from international operations.
Swedish Match was founded by Ivar Kreuger, an internationally renowned industrial magnate and a controversial figure who was regarded as a scoundrel by some. Kreuger was born in in Kalmar, a city in southern Sweden. Hi