February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Ingvar_kamprad":
Business & Money: 23 Dec 11
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad has donated nearly 1 billion kronor ($146 million) to launch a new foundation to support research at Linneaus University in Kamprad's native region of Småland in south central Sweden.
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Business & Money: 13 Dec 11
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's wife Margaretha Kamprad-Stennert has died at the age of 71 after a period of prolonged illness.
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Business & Money: 24 Nov 11
The manager of an Ikea store in Germany, who had Facebook friends belonging to a neo-Nazi political party, has been dismissed for posting offensive opinions on the social networking site.
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National: 22 Oct 11
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad is recovering in a Lausanne hospital after undergoing heart surgery in Switzerland.
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Business & Money: 21 Sep 11
Officials at Swedish retail giant Ikea have confirmed that the company is the target of an extortion attempt following a string of blasts and other incidents at Ikea outlets throughout Europe.
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Society: 3 Sep 11
Police evacuated two Prague-based stores of Swedish furniture giant Ikea on Friday after defusing a booby-trapped device found near one of them, a spokeswoman said.
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Business & Money: 2 Sep 11
Swedish furniture giant Ikea used East German political prisoners in the 1970s and 1980s to help build sofas at a factory that sat adjacent to a prison, according to German media reports.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Sep 11
Recent revelations that Ingvar Kamprad was more active in Swedish Nazi movements than previously thought have called into question the Ikea founder's claims that it was simply a “folly of youth”, the AFP's Nina Larsson explains.
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Society: 25 Aug 11
Swedish TV comedy pair Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson cracked open a bottle of champagne once belonging to Adolf Hitler on Wednesday as a tribute to the renewed focus on Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's Nazi past.
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Business & Money: 24 Aug 11
The Swedish security police tracked Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's membership in a Swedish Nazi movement in the 1940s, one of the revelations of the business leader's Nazi past revealed in a new book.
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Business & Money: 17 Jun 11
Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea plans to boost security measures at all of its European outlets following recent explosions at several stores across the continent.
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Business & Money: 18 May 11
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Swedish furnishings giant Ikea, has promised more transparency over the firm's business affairs, saying that it has nothing to hide after a slew of allegations in recent years.
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Business & Money: 10 Mar 11
Ten Swedes have made it onto the Forbes billionaires list for 2011, with H&M owner Stefan Persson placing highest among the Swedes considered to be the world's wealthiest.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 11
Rather than denounce Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, people should instead take aim at the Swedish system that forced him to move the company’s fortunes abroad, argues business school professor Hans Sjögren.
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Business & Money: 26 Jan 11
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, considered one of the wealthiest people in the world, has acknowledged the existence of a secret foundation worth 100 billion kronor ($15.34 billion).
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Business & Money: 11 Dec 10
Iconic Swedish furniture giant Ikea's founder, Ingvar Kamprad, is "distressed" by the company's troubled expansion into Russia after a review of its operations in Russia revealed major shortcomings.
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Business & Money: 1 Oct 10
Swedish furniture giant Ikea finished off the most recent fiscal year with record-setting profits, according to media reports.
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Society: 7 Sep 10
The well-heeled founding family of Swedish fashion giant Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) has donated 4 million shares in the company to fund a new employee incentive programme.
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Business & Money: 11 Mar 10
Two Swedes have been named among the richest people in the world, according to the latest Forbes ranking which places Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim at the top of the pile.
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Business & Money: 19 Feb 10
Ikea's founder Ingvar Kamprad on Friday expressed "distress" over a bribery affair which has led to the firing of the Swedish furniture giant's two top managers of its Russian division.
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Business & Money: 19 Oct 09
The family of Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish billionaire founder of the Ikea discount furniture chain, is thinking about ditching the high-end Habitat furniture and design chain.
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Business & Money: 7 Jul 09
Swedish furniture retailing giant Ikea needs to shed more employees, company founder Ingvar Kamprad said in an interview published on Monday.
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Business & Money: 20 Jun 09
Ikea has been swindled out of 1.5 billion kronor ($189 million) in Russia, company founder Ingvar Kamprad has revealed to Swedish media.
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Lifestyle: 19 Jun 09
Stockholmers no longer need to travel to Barkaby or Kungens Kurva to get their Ikea fix. Fans of cheap-but-chic home furnishings can instead head to a downtown Stockholm museum to see a retrospective of the furniture giant's 50 years of liveable design, the AFP's Mark Preel reports.
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Business & Money: 18 Nov 08
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad has said he is keen to do a lot more to help people in need, according to the Dutch foundation that owns the Swedish furniture giant.
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Business & Money: 14 Nov 08
Despite their billions, Sweden’s wealthiest individuals have shown that not even they can withstand the effects of the financial crisis coupled with a dismal year on the stock market.
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Lifestyle: 1 Sep 08
Robert La Bua visits Lund and its famed university, Skåne's esteemed home of higher education and Viking mischief.
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Business & Money: 22 Aug 08
'Yes' washing-up liquid is Sweden's most loved brand with around 2.5 million Swedes big fans of the soapy detergent, according to a new report.
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Business & Money: 28 Jul 08
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Swedish furniture chain Ikea, has revealed it is unlikely that one of his sons will take over as CEO when the incumbent CEO Anders Dahlvig leaves.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Apr 08
Travelling back to his home town of Los Angeles, David Bartal finds that Sweden still has a long way to go when it comes to unhealthy food at bargain prices.
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Business & Money: 4 Dec 07
The richest one percent of people in Sweden own up to 40 percent of the personal wealth in the country, according to a new report.
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Society: 15 Nov 07
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad remains by far the richest man in Sweden, with an estimated fortune of 530 billion kronor ($84.37 billion), according to a new survey by Veckans Affärer magazine.
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Business & Money: 31 Jul 07
Ingvar Kamprad, founder of the Ikea furniture chain, received a total dividend of 1.45 billion kronor for the last financial year from the company's Swedish operations, newly disclosed minutes reveal.
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Business & Money: 9 Mar 07
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad is the fourth richest man in the world, according to US magazine Forbes. H&M boss Stefan Persson and Tetra Pak's Birgit Rausing also feature.
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Lifestyle: 2 Jan 07
He founded the international flat-pack furnishing giant Ikea, making himself one of the wealthiest people in the world in the process. But Ingvar Kamprad still drives his fifteen-year-old Volvo round the streets of Lausanne.
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National: 29 Dec 06
Who do Swedes most admire? Royals, sports personalities and comedians are all in evidence on the nation's top ten lists - but Swedes reserve greatest admiration for their political leaders.
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Business & Money: 28 Dec 06
Ingvar Kamprad usually keeps Ikea's profits firmly under wraps. But in a Christmas speech last week the founder of the flat-pack furniture giant let the cat out of the bag, admitting bumper earnings.
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Business & Money: 22 Dec 06
Sales at Ikea's Swedish stores were higher in the year to August than ever before. The company broke through the psychologically important 10 billion kronor mark.
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Business & Money: 16 Nov 06
Some 125 Swedes have a fortune greater than 1 billion kronor, according to a new list. Ikea boss Ingvar Kamprad is by far the richest Swede, with Skype founder Niklas Zennström a new entrant to the club.
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Business & Money: 25 Sep 06
Swedish furniture giant Ikea plans to hire tens of thousands of workers over the next few years as it opens dozens of new stores, including 24 in the coming year.
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Business & Money: 16 Aug 06
Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Ikea, will earn nearly 5 billion kronor in royalties this year after the company nears a turnover of 160 billion.
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Business & Money: 16 Apr 06
Tommy Kullberg is heading Ikea's return to Japan. His team have visited more than 100 local residences to take notes and try to avoid a repeat of the group's disastrous first foray into the world's number two retail market.
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Business & Money: 10 Mar 06
Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish owner of IKEA, is the fourth richest person in the worlds, according to Forbes magazine. Eight Swedes are worth more than a billion dollars, Forbes reckons.
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Society: 3 Jan 06
"Women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home," says Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad. That's why the company needs more of them in management positions, he argues in a documentary to be shown on Tuesday.
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National: 5 Dec 05
Despite some stiff competition, Swede Ingvar Kamprad maintains his position as Switzerland's richest resident. A magazine in the country estimates his personal worth at over 15 billion dollars.
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Smörgåsbord: 20 Dec 04
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Smörgåsbord: 16 Dec 04
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Business & Money: 8 Apr 04
The world's richest man is SEK6,000 worse off after an IKEA candle burns a woman who "used it wrongly".
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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