WEDFALL & ZILFOS A/S
Vilhelm Wedfall
1928 - 1939
Nannasgade 15 - 17
After working with Becher in Becher & Wedfall , Wedfall started
in 1928 an advertisement match factory in Nannasgade 15-17 ,
where he continued imports of vest pocket matches, the so-called
book-matched.
Perhaps to curb Wedfalls import of foreign matches, HE
Gosch made the same year an agreement with him that he could
sell HE
Gosch 's cheap special brands , provided that the gains did not
exceed 1 kr / 1000 boxes and Wedfall undertook not to negotiate
other brands or be interested in matches, either from abroad or
in Denmark .
However, Wedfall could continue to negotiate his book-matches,
as long as this was in the same extent as before.
Wedfall tried the next year , to keep Gosch 's president ,
Folmer Preisler informed on Russian imports of matches and had
several meetings with the Russian trade delegation under the
guise that he would import (which he might also still had
intentions ) .
How much value it had for Gosch to get this information is
doubtful .
Already in the summer of 1928 Wedfall had problems with imports
of book-matches and to supplement his income , he had gotten the
idea to buy a confectionery factory .
He asked Preisler for an advance of 5,000 kroner which he agreed
upon , on the condition that they were used for the purchase of
confectionery factory.
Wedfall bought the factory, but as it did not supply the
anticipated benefits , he asked again Preisler for financiel
help , this time about the possibility of negotiating some of
Gosch 's more ordinary brands like Lynet etc.
and probably
The Tordenskjold .
Wedfall was however refused , and after a few telephone
discussions Wedfall were told that Gosch no longer needed
his assistance , but that they would give him an amount of 1200
kroner , as a kind of severance pay .
No
one heard from Wedfall until autumn 1931, when he again wrote to
Preisler for help, when the selling of book-matches had gone
almost to a standstill and the confectionery factory had not yet
made a profit.
Wedfall saw an opportunity to improve this by purchasing another
confectionery factory and now asked Preisler for a loan
with the wait money as collateral.
Wedfall was even not afraid to possibly turn to Ivar Kreuger for
the loan.
After Preisler's proposal to borrow money in the Private Bank
the loan of 4,500 kroner was accepted, since reached agreement
on a transport, where the annual severance pay was paid to the
bank instead of Wedfall .
Gosch terminated the agreement with Wedfall in 1937 , after
which he and his wife went in cooperation with the manufacturer
Edwin Zilver in matchstick factory Zilfos A / S in Copenhagen .
But one year later Zilver went out of the company and
started for himself, while Wedfall moved to Bragesgade 33 until
he closed in 1938.
