Word: uddevalla
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before he got out of school in his home town of Uddevalla, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren had a shrewd eye for the main chance. Swedish legend relates how at the age of nine he developed a thriving business in baskets and ash trays woven from tin strips dumped outside herring canneries, how he organized his playmates to make and sell his product, how he thrashed them when their salesmanship was poor. Son of a Swedish count, he later worked in Gothenburg but, restless and energetic, went to Berlin to learn big business. Later, like Ivar Kreuger, he worked and traveled...
| 1 |