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Ingvar Kamprad’s path from country boy to one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, partly thanks to loving family, imagination and stubbornness.
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.
In his early years as an entrepreneur, Ingvar Kamprad imported pens, watches and nylon stockings, learning the ropes of purchasing step by step. But after some problems with import licences he started looking for new opportunities, and decided to focus on furniture.
Aug 30, 2024 · Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur who in 1943 founded IKEA, a home furnishings retailer that specialized in low-priced goods, sold when possible in compact ‘flat-pack’ form for in-home assembly by the customer.
IKEA is named after the initials of founder Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd, the farm on which he grew up, and Agunnaryd, the nearby village. Before the most recent update in 2018, the logo had not been revamped since the 1980s.
Jan 28, 2018 · Ingvar Kamprad, a Swedish entrepreneur who hid his fascist past and became one of the world’s richest men by turning simply-designed, low-cost furniture into the global Ikea empire, died on ...
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Long before the rest of the world started talking about corporate culture, Ingvar Kamprad wrote down his vision and ideology for IKEA. He called it The Testament of a Furniture Dealer. It describes how IKEA needs to act to remain a successful, vibrant company. So what exactly is it all about?
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