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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.
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 · 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...
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.
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.
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 ...
Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943 at the age of 17, selling goods like pens and wallets. Småland, his home county in Sweden, was heavily forested with stony soil. Hardship bred a tough, resourceful people who were expert at making the most of a little, qualities that have always been at the heart of IKEA.
Jan 28, 2018 · IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad has died at the age of 91, the Swedish company has announced. Mr Kamprad, who founded the firm in 1943 at the age of just 17, passed away following a short illness.
