Krueger & Toll Stock Certificate 100$, 1929 Ivar Kreuger, a Swede, was the famous "match king" who acquired monopolies to sell matches in various countries around the world. He controlled various operating companies through a pyramid-based holding company. When the pyramid tottered at the start of the Great Depression, Kreuger took his life Early 1908, Ivar and his cousin Henrik Kreüger had planned to found a construction company that would work for the US company Trussed Concrete Steel Co. on the Swedish market, to represent its new building methods based on reinforced concrete. At the same time Henrik Kreüger had introduced Paul Toll to Ivar. It turned out that Ivar formed the company with Paul, who had several years of practical experience in the construction business as an engineer, and was later site manager for the Swedish construction company Kasper & Höglund AB. international shippiing with tracking no.