Ingvar Kamprad, a Swedish entrepreneur who grew a childhood business selling matches and lingonberries into Ikea, a build-it-yourself furniture empire that introduced sleek Scandinavian designs ...

Ingvar Kamprad, a dyslexic boy who registered his mail order household goods business called Ikea at age 17, died on Saturday at his home in Smaland, Sweden. He was 91.

Kamprad was born March 30, 1926 and — despite struggles with dyslexia — exhibited an entrepreneurial spirit from a young age, selling matchboxes as a small child.

Ingvar Kamprad, whose boyhood business of selling matches and berries in Sweden eventually grew into the Ikea furniture chain, has died.

When Kamprad was 17, his dad gave him a cash reward for making good grades in school despite his dyslexia. He used the money to found IKEA in 1943.

When did Ingvar Kamprad become a billionaire? Despite the fact that Ingvar Hentland was named one of the world's richest people in 2004 by a Swedish magazine that calculated the assets and endowments ...

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 ...

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 ...