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Ingvar Kamprad: The Farmer's Son Who Changed The World
Swedish Press
|March 2018
‘IKEA BROUGHT THE WORLD TO SWEDEN...’
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, passed away on 27 January 2018 at the age of 91. He was the Swedish embodiment of the American dream, starting out as a farmer’s boy in the isolated province of Småland and ending up as one of the world’s wealthiest entrepreneurs. He was born in Pjätteryd and died in Liatorp – prosaic names which make urban Swedes smile with a mixture of affection and condescension. The names also disguise the fact that he spent 40 years living in his exclusive mansion overlooking Lake of Geneva in Switzerland.
This story is from the March 2018 edition of Swedish Press.
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