Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (Swedish: [ˈɪ̌ŋːvar ˈkǎmːprad] ⓘ; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA, which he founded in 1943 and grew into a multinational retail company that became the world's largest furniture seller in …

Jan 23, 2025 · Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur who in 1943 founded IKEA, a home furnishings retailer that specialized in low-priced goods, sold when possible in compact ‘flat-pack’ form for in-home assembly by the customer.

Ingvar Kamprad was born in 1926 in Älmhult, and grew up with his younger sister Kerstin, mother Berta and father Feodor. Ingvar spent his early years with his family at his mother Berta’s farm home, Majtorp. You had to be thrifty and inventive to make ends meet. And Berta was.

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...

Jun 19, 2024 · In 1943, a 17-year-old named Ingvar Feodor Kamprad (1926–2018) got some money from his father for doing well in school, despite being dyslexic. Kamprad used the money to found a business named IKEA, an abbreviation for Ingvar Kamprad from Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd, his childhood home.

One of the best known entrepreneurs of today’s world is Ingvar Kamprad who has turned his startup venture ‘IKEA’ into one of the largest furniture company of the world. This innovative personality is often regarded as a child prodigy as he had …

Ingvar Feodor Kamprad was born on 30 March 1926 in the county of Pjätteryd in south-eastern Sweden, where he grew up on a family farm named Elmtaryd (also spelled Älmtaryd). The closest village was Agunnaryd, in the Ljungby Municipality.

Ingvar Feodor Kamprad is a Swedish businessman. He is the creator of the famous and one of the largest furniture retail companies of the world ‘IKEA’. He is one of world’s wealthiest people and most successful entrepreneurs.

The 27 th of January 2018, the world of interiors lost the successful iconic man Feodor Ingvar Kamprad. IKEA founder passed away during his sleep in his home in Småland, Sweden. During in his few days, Kamprad was suffering from pneumonia.

Jan 31, 2018 · Ingvar Kamprad, the multi-billionaire founder of the Ikea furniture company, was born in 1926 near Almhult, in Smaland, a remote part of southern Sweden. His parents were Feodor,...