Ingvar Kamprad, whose boyhood business of selling pencils and seeds from his bicycle in Sweden eventually grew into the worldwide Ikea furniture chain, has died. He was 91.

If so, Ingvar Kamprad — the “IK” in IKEA — was responsible for countless do-it-yourself assembly quarrels in a world he furnished with cheap, simple and sometimes disposable bookcases ...

Ingvar Kamprad, the company's reclusive and frugal founder who died in January 2018 at age 91, started Ikea in 1943 when he was just 17 years old. Over the years, ...

Ingvar Kamprad and the IKEA Story Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943 with help from his father. He began with mail-order sales of small items such as wallets, picture frames, and ballpoint pens.

Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA with the money he earned from it, an acronym for Ingvar Kamprad, a native of Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd, where he grew up. What did Ingvar Kamprad study? Born on March 30, 1926 in ...

Swedish business magnate Ingvar Kamprad has been at the helm of IKEA, one of the world's largest furniture stores and most beloved brands, for more than 70 years. With a net worth of $39.3 billion ...

“One of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century, Ingvar Kamprad, has peacefully passed away at his home in Smaland, Sweden, on Jan. 27,” Ikea said in an emailed statement on Sunday.

IKEA's founder and former CEO, Ingvar Kamprad, was renowned for his extreme frugality. He bought clothes from flea markets, recycled tea bags, and got cheap haircuts. Don't miss.

STOCKHOLM — Ingvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder who turned a small-scale mail order business into a global furniture empire, has died at 91, the ...

Ingvar Kamprad, the man who created IKEA, leaves behind a professional legacy that's all about simplicity: sleek, affordable, Scandinavian-designed furniture with wordless assembly instructions ...