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Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (Swedish: [ˈɪ̌ŋːvar ˈkǎmːprad] ⓘ; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. He lived in Switzerland from 1976 to 2014.
Ingvar Kamprad’s path from country boy to one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, partly thanks to loving family, imagination and stubbornness.
Jun 5, 2024 · Ingvar Kamprad (born March 30, 1926, Småland province, Sweden—died January 27, 2018, Småland) was a Swedish entrepreneur who in 1943 founded IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer in the early 21st century.
Jan 28, 2018 · The Swedish founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, has died at the age of 91, the company has announced. Mr Kamprad - who pioneered flat-pack furniture - died at his home in...
Ingvar Kamprad: just a regular, small-town boy from rural Sweden who would come to be one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. See how his resourceful Småland upbringing, mixed with a good dose of stubbornness defined his decades-long career at the helm of IKEA.
Jan 28, 2018 · Swedish business magnate who founded Ikea. Caroline Roux. Sun 28 Jan 2018 09.06 EST. Ingvar Kamprad, who has died aged 91, is not a household name, but the company that made him a billionaire...
That’s how Ingvar Kamprad, the rebel-hearted, clever-minded boy, got started in business. With humble roots, useful (and affordable!) matches, and the desire to help his family, he would eventually change millions of lives worldwide with home furnishing.
