Mar 29, 2013 · Instead of dining at fine restaurants when he's traveling, Kamprad will drop into a nearby Ikea and enjoy a $4 plate of Swedish meatballs, lingonberry jam, and mashed potatoes. Also: he takes...

Mar 29, 2013 · Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of global juggernaut IKEA, lives in an unassuming bungalow, favours the meatballs sold by his stores and only ever flies economy class.

Apr 14, 2008 · Self-made man: Ingvar Kamprad with wife Margaretha. In his faded coat, tinted prescription glasses and scuffed shoes, he looks like just another pensioner scraping by on a tight budget. But the...

Feb 5, 2018 · Even though he had a car, Kamprad often used the bus. In fact, he was once refused entry into a gala because he had arrived on the bus. He had to attend the event to receive a ‘businessman of the year’ award. Kamprad also only flew economy class and would buy his clothes at flea markets.

In the 1960s, Kamprad married his second wife, Margaretha Kamprad-Stennert (1938–2011), whom he met when she was twenty years old. [22] They had three sons: Peter, Jonas and Mathias. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ]

Mar 29, 2013 · In a letter to every Ikea employee Kamprad – whose grandparents were Germans from the Sudetenland – asked them to forgive what he termed “the greatest mistake of my life”.

Jan 29, 2018 · Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of DIY affordable (and relationship testing) furniture maker and Swedish food purveyor Ikea, died on Jan. 27 at the age of 91.

Ingvar comes knocking. The Gothenburg survey was not the first time IKEA made home visits. Back in 1960, while at an interior design fair in Milan, Ingvar Kamprad met a local rug supplier who took him to see Italian homes in a small town.

RECENTLY DECEASED BILLIONAIRE INGVAR KAMPRAD STARTED IKEA IN RURAL SWEDEN AT THE AGE OF 17 AND BUILT IT INTO A GLOBAL BEHEMOTH. HERE’S HOW. Upon the death of Ingvar Kamprad, the world’s richest man in secret, we ought to ask how did he create the IKEA success story?

Ingvar Kamprad’s path from country boy to one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, partly thanks to loving family, imagination and stubbornness. Visit Opening hours