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Ingvar Kamprad
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Swedish business magnate (1926-2018)
Ingvar Kamprad was a Swedish business magnate who founded IKEA, one of the world's largest furniture retailers, and built it into a global company. His business model and design philosophy made affordable home furnishings accessible to millions of people worldwide, fundamentally changing the furniture industry.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Feodor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of death
- Liatorp
- Occupation
- designer
- Political party
- New Swedish Movement
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Swedish
- Religion
- Christianity
- Field of work
- furniture industry
- Image
- Ingvar Kamprad Haparanda June 2010.jpg
- Number of children
- 4
- Residence
- Epalinges
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- Ingvar Kamprad
- date of birth
- 1926-03-30
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- Ingvar Kamprad
- name in native language
- Ingvar Kamprad
- date of death
- 2018-01-27
- net worth
- 58700000000
- lifestyle
- frugality
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- Ingvar Kaamprad
- affiliation
- IKEA
- medical condition
- dyslexia
- P8168
- Porrhomma convexum
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Encyclopedic overview
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad ( Swedish: [ˈɪ̌ŋːvar ˈkǎmːprad] ; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire businessman who founded IKEA in 1943 and grew it into a multinational retail company that became the world's largest furniture seller in 2008. He moved to Switzerland with his Swiss wife in 1976, moving back to Småland in 2014 after her death in 2011.
Early life and family
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