Philip Ulric Strengberg

Philip Ulric Strengberg (2 August 1805 – 8 October 1872) was a businessman in Jakobstad and the majority owner of the Ph.

[1] Strengberg was born in Sievi, Finland, and entered an Apologist school in Uleåborg (Oulu) at the age 13, graduating in 1820.

Ulrica was born in Jakobstad on 18 February 1799 to the local merchant Johan Thelin and his wife Anna Margareta Häggström.

During the years 1842 until 1848 Strengberg purchased the majority of shares in the tobacco factory in Jakobstad (founded in 1762).

This proved to be the boost that the stagnant tobaccy industry had been waiting for, and the business was soon booming under the new name of "Ph.

From this position of strength, it was also (probably) the first Finnish company to open a subsidiary abroad, in the Swedish town of Härnösand in 1903.

The production in Härnösand, Sweden had started on a small scale in 1903, but expanded rapidly and Ph.