The UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP was founded in 1925 by A.H. and S.M. Rosenberg. The Rosenberg family had already had a number of years worth of experience in match manufacturing and by 1925 had embarked on a venture of their own. The ensuing history of the Company is a tangled web of subsidiaries, mergers, takeovers, and other mysterious financial goings-on. In 1939, UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP absorbed both the Union Match Co. and the Federal Match Co., in the form of the Federal Match Corp, to form the Pan American Match Corp. with the Virginia Match Corp. Later, the whole thing went back to being UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP.
UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP changed its name to UMC Industries, Inc. in 1966, as by then the very successful Company had spread out to become a multi-facetted conglomerate. Eventually, the Company was sold to Swedish Match AB of Stockholm in 1981, and the resulting entity became UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP (again). Production centers for UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP included Hudson, NY; Los Angeles, CA; St. Louis, MO; and Kenner, LA, all of which are things of the past now. As part of the general decline in the American match industry, by the mid-1980s, UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP was already pulling out of match manufacturing in the U.S. Over the years, UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP produced a truly remarkable variety of match book covers and boxes in an effort to surpass its stiff competition from the likes of Diamond and Lion. Now the UNIVERSAL MATCH Corp match book covers and boxes have become collector’s items.
Subject ID: 96947
MoreThe UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP was founded in 1925 by A.H. and S.M. Rosenberg. The Rosenberg family had already had a number of years worth of experience in match manufacturing and by 1925 had embarked on a venture of their own. The ensuing history of the Company is a tangled web of subsidiaries, mergers, takeovers, and other mysterious financial goings-on. In 1939, UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP absorbed both the Union Match Co. and the Federal Match Co., in the form of the Federal Match Corp, to form the Pan American Match Corp. with the Virginia Match Corp. Later, the whole thing went back to being UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP.
UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP changed its name to UMC Industries, Inc. in 1966, as by then the very successful Company had spread out to become a multi-facetted conglomerate. Eventually, the Company was sold to Swedish Match AB of Stockholm in 1981, and the resulting entity became UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP (again). Production centers for UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP included Hudson, NY; Los Angeles, CA; St. Louis, MO; and Kenner, LA, all of which are things of the past now. As part of the general decline in the American match industry, by the mid-1980s, UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP was already pulling out of match manufacturing in the U.S. Over the years, UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP produced a truly remarkable variety of match book covers and boxes in an effort to surpass its stiff competition from the likes of Diamond and Lion. Now the UNIVERSAL MATCH Corp match book covers and boxes have become collector’s items.
Subject ID: 96947
Subject ID: 96947