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Ingvar Kamprad
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad 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.
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business · Swedish businessman (1926–2018) · businessperson · entrepreneur · designer · also Ingvar Kamprad, Feodor Ingvar Kamprad, Kamprad
Born 30 March 1926 · Died 27 January 2018 · Q216932
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2026· 2 entries
“only those who are asleep make no mistakes”
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2018· 10 entries
Bloomberg L.P.: Ingvar Kamprad, Ikea's Swedish Billionaire Founder, Dies at 91
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MediaPost: Ingvar Kamprad, Who Retooled Retailing With IKEA, 91
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SFGate: Ingvar Kamprad, entrepreneur who turned Ikea into furniture empire, dies
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Los Angeles Times: Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, who revolutionized the furniture industry, dies at 91
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People: IKEA Founder Ingvar Kamprad Dies at 91
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Mashable: IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad dead at age 91
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Yahoo: Swedish IKEA founder Kamprad dies at 91
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Died 2018-01-27.
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“You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.”
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Reported net worth: $58.7B (as of 2018).
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2015· 1 entry
It was reported that Kamprad had named his sons as the sole heirs of an entity called the Ikano Group, which is valued at US$1
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Global Economy Prize (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
According to a 2006 interview, Kamprad was then driving a 1993 Volvo 240, flew economy class, and encouraged IKEA employees to use both sides of a page when writing or printing.
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2004· 2 entries
Kamprad was one of the world's wealthiest people
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Said that his drinking was under control, and according to The New York Times, Kamprad "controlled it by drying out three times a year"
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1994· 1 entry
The personal letters of the Swedish fascist Per Engdahl were made public, posthumously revealing that Kamprad had joined Engdahl's pro-fascist New Swedish Movement (Nysvenska Rörelsen) in 1942, at age 16
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1976· 1 entry
“The Testament of a Furniture Dealer”
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1961· 1 entry
Wadling and Kamprad divorced in 1961 with Annika living with her mother.
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1948· 1 entry
Kamprad diversified his portfolio, adding furniture
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1943· 2 entries
And grew it into a multinational retail company that became the world's largest furniture seller in 2008
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When he was 17 Kamprad founded IKEA at his uncle Ernst's kitchen table
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-03-30.
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