Biography|Olof Kjellstrom — The Malmo Works That Made Him Managing Director

People treat Skanska as a Stockholm contractor that always kept its head office in the capital.

The managing director's chair in 1902 was still in Malmö.

AB Skånska Cementgjuteriet had been formed there in 1887 as a spin-off from Skånska Cement AB.

Rudolf Fredrik Berg put the new company on the register.

Kjellström had run the Stockholm branch since 1887.

In 1902 the board made him verkställande direktör.

He held the post until 1914, the year the head office itself moved to Stockholm.

A plate of the Malmö premises in August 1903 shows yards and sheds, not a tower.

The firm had that same year begun using reinforced concrete in Sweden.

He also sat on the boards of Skånska Cement AB and Nya Asfalt AB.

In 1896 the company had opened an ornament factory in the Limhamn wedge between Limhamnsvägen and the Malmö–Limhamn railway.

The block is still called Gjuteriet.

The 1896 sheds are gone.

Housing, new streets and a small square occupy the ground.

Kolgahuset on Skeppsbron, finished in 1935 as a later head office, is the wrong building for this year.

Photo: Karlstadpojken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (1903 plate of the Malmö works)