Yet Kamprad was resourceful and full of the enthusiasm of youth. “I suppose I was slightly peculiar,” he observes in his biography, “in that I started tremendously early doing business deals.” At five ...

One of the great entrepreneurs of the 20th century, Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, passed away today. As Reuters pointed out in its short biography, Kamprad created a store — as a teenager ...

Swedish business magnate Ingvar Kamprad had been at the helm of IKEA, one of the world's largest furniture stores and most beloved brands, for more than 70 years when his death was announced ...

STOCKHOLM --Ingvar Kamprad, the Ikea founder who turned a small-scale mail order business into a global furniture empire, has died at 91, the company said Sunday. Ikea Sverige, the chain's Swedish ...

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.

The comedian Amy Poehler once claimed that IKEA was Swedish for “argument.” If so, Ingvar Kamprad — the “IK” in IKEA — was responsible for countless do-it-yourself assembly quarrels in ...

IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad's 'stingy and proud' mentality helped shape his retail empire — here's what you can learn from his famously frugal ways. Story by Chris MacDonald • 3d.

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 ...

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 IKEA founder who turned a small-scale mail order business into a global furniture empire, has died at 91, the company said Sunday.