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BiographyUniversal Match Company is a matchbook manufacturer founded in 1925 based in St. Louis, Missouri. "The Universal Match Company was founded in 1925 by A.H. and S.M. Rosenberg [to put that in perspective, Diamond was formed in 1880]. 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. Little did they realize that they were giving birth to the one-day giant of the industry...or perhaps they did!...As part of the general decline in the American match industry, by the mid-1980s, Universal was already pulling out of match manufacturing in the U.S. In 1985, for example, Universal introduced its new Jupiter One-Eight line, which was manufactured in Belgium. Rising production and labor costs, the increasing anti-smoking environment, foreign competition...all of these factors and more spelled the end of Universal's peak in the industry. By 1987, production of all fancies had ceased, and soon Universal production in the United States disappeared."--https://matchpro.org/Archives/Hobby%20History/UNIVERSAL.pdf
