- Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish founder of the world-renowned furniture store IKEA, died at the age of 91 on January 27, 2018 in Smaland, Sweden.
- IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943 and the first IKEA store was opened in 1958 in Almhult, Sweden.
- The headquarters of this company is in Leiden, Netherlands.
- In 2017, there were 403 IKEA stores in 49 countries.
- In 1976, he wrote ‘The Testament of Furniture Dealer’ pamphlet for his staff, in which he called that the ‘wasting resources is a mortal sin’.
