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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 · 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...
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.
Jan 28, 2018 · The founder of IKEA and Ikano, and one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century, Ingvar Kamprad, has peacefully passed away at his home in Småland, Sweden, on the 27th of January. Surrounded by his loved ones, he died at the age of 91, following a short illness.
