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for Superior Match Company (Chicago, Ill.)
Biography"Headquartered in Chicago, IL, the company was founded in 1932 by Harold Meitus, whose son, David, would eventually start Atlantis Match Co...Superior, incidentally, was also the last domestic company to abandon the “wide striker” on its covers. The extra width strikers are something we normally associate with Pre-War covers, but Superior continued to use noticeably wider strikers into the early 1950s...On the corporate side of the picture, Superior’s story is the typical tangled web of wheeler-dealer buy-outs, mergers, and take-overs. Superior was taken over by Momart Co., Inc., in 1946. Twelve years later, in 1958, the company was sold to Sutherland Paper Company and then merged into it in 1960. In 1966, Superior merged with California’s Monarch Match Co. of San Jose, from which comes the now familiar 'Superior/Monarch' manumarks. In 1968, the entire enterprise was taken over by Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. From there, the company was sold to the James River Corp. of VA in 1979. Finally, Richard Meitus, whom I assume was yet another son of the original founder, bought Superior back in 1985....happy ending?...almost. By 1985, the American match industry as a whole had already begun to collapse, and eventually, with only three exceptions, Superior and all the rest disappeared."--https://matchpro.org/Archives/Hobby%20History/SUPERIOR.pdf
