Jonas Kamprad was born on March 1966 in Sweden. He is the son of IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad. Jonas grew up in a family of entrepreneurs and innovators, which greatly influenced his career path.

The Swiss, moreover, don't seem to have taken offense: in three days, 15,000 of them responded with suggestions – one of which pointed out that while Sweden did indeed have IKEA, the Swiss ...

Behind the blue and yellow of IKEA, the story of Ingvar Kamprad, a boy from a Swedish village who grew up to change how the world shops for furniture. Nucleus_AI 2705 Stories.

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’s fortune has been widely discussed, and in 2013 Bloombergs ranked him as the fourth richest person in the world, with assets amounting to 51.7 billion dollars.

Ingvar Kamprad and Sam Walton both emerged from rural areas to found big-box store chains. Both slashed prices and rallied their employees with folksy wisdom. But Mr. Kamprad’s IKEA has proved ...

Ingvar Kamprad, the multi-billionaire founder of the Ikea furniture company, ... (£721,000) profit. In 1978, the Kamprad family would move on to Lausanne, ...

Ingvar Kamprad was born in the Smaland province of Sweden on March 30 1926. ... Kamprad moved to Lausanne in Switzerland in 1976 to preserve his growing fortune from Sweden's punitive tax regime, ...

Ingvar Kamprad, a dyslexic Swedish farm boy who became one of the world's richest men by founding IKEA when he was 17, building it into a global empire that now has 355 stores in 29 countries, ...