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Ikea founder rated fifth richest in the world
Business & Money: 17 May 13
Ingrad Kamprad, the founder of Swedish furniture giant Ikea, finished fifth on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index published on Friday, with an estimated fortune of $55.6 billion.
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Now on sale at Ikea: horse-free meatballs
National: 21 Mar 13
Swedish meatballs are once again being sold at Ikea, with the Swedish furniture giant promising customers its version of the classic Swedish dish is now free of horsemeat.
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Fourteen Swedes make Forbes billionaire list
Business & Money: 5 Mar 13
H&M owner Stefan Persson was the highest placed Swede on the Forbes billionaire list published on Tuesday, with 13 other Swedes possessing a fortune large enough to join him in the elite club.
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Effective leadership: The art of getting decisions made in Sweden
Education: 19 Feb 13
The decision-making dilemma is no joke but something of a riddle for managers new to corporate culture in Sweden. The course Effective Leadership in Sweden gets straight to the point and assists managers in getting their team to do the same.
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Ikea founder 'in the dark' over expansion plans
Society: 24 Jan 13
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad said on Thursday that he was surprised at the company's expansion plans, claiming he hadn't even heard of plans to build a store in southern Stockholm.
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List of Swedish billionaires gets longer
Society: 13 Dec 12
An annual list of Swedish billionaires released on Thursday has eleven more names than it did ast year, with Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad finishing streets ahead of the other 118 Swedes who made the cut.
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Ikea cranks up speed on hotel development
Business & Money: 11 Dec 12
The investment arm of Ikea, which in August unveiled plans for a budget hotel chain, has more than doubled its investment pace, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Staying private key to Ikea's success: Kamprad
Business & Money: 4 Dec 12
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad on Monday reiterated his intention to keep the Swedish furniture retailer private as he inaugurated a fellowship in honour of his late wife.
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Ikea's Kamprad still Switzerland's richest
Business & Money: 30 Nov 12
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad maintained his number one ranking among Switzerland's wealthiest residents, with a Swiss magazine estimating his net worth to be 39 billion Swiss francs ($42 billion).
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'I am too busy to die': Ingvar Kamprad
Society: 7 Oct 12
The 86-year-old founder of Swedish furniture giant Ikea says he has no plans to retire and rejects any idea of the company going public.
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Ikea denies reports of founder's retirement
Business & Money: 17 Sep 12
Ikea on Monday denied media reports that Ingvar Kamprad, the 86-year-old founder of the Swedish furniture giant, had passed responsibility for running the company to his three sons. But the company did announce another management change.
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Ikea founder passes torch to three sons
Society: 17 Sep 12
Ingvar Kamprad, the 86-year-old founder of Ikea, has confirmed that the Swedish furniture giant has been handed over to his three sons, with each taking over a third of the company.
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Ikea brand sold for 75 billion kronor
Business & Money: 9 Aug 12
The Ikea brand has been sold for 75 billion kronor ($11.2 billion) to one of the Swedish furniture giant’s own daughter companies, with experts saying that the price tag is "reasonable".
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Kamprad gives millions to house Swiss retirees
Business & Money: 27 Jun 12
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad is using some of the fortune he made helping people furnish their homes to help a small town in Switzerland build housing for elderly people.
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Couple sues Ikea to expose spying 'cover-up'
National: 12 Apr 12
A Swedish couple who believes Ikea spied on them and is outraged by the company's perceived stonewalling is suing the Swedish furniture giant in an effort to expose the truth.
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Eleven Swedes make Forbes billionaires list
Business & Money: 8 Mar 12
Eleven Swedes have made it onto the Forbes billionaires list for 2012, with H&M owner Stefan Persson ranking highest among the Swedes considered to be the world's wealthiest.
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Ikea owner richest in Europe: report
Business & Money: 6 Mar 12
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad was ranked as Europe’s wealthiest man in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on Monday, and the fifth richest man in the world.
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Ikea founder donates millions to 'hometown' Swedish university
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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Ikea founder mourns death of his wife
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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Ikea boss sacked for 'pro-Nazi' Facebook posts
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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Ikea founder recovering after heart surgery
National: 22 Oct 11
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad is recovering in a Lausanne hospital after undergoing heart surgery in Switzerland.
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Ikea blasts linked to extortion scheme
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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Czech Ikea stores emptied by bomb scare
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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Ikea used East German prison labour: report
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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Book re-ignites debate on Ikea founder's Nazi past
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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Swedish TV duo quaff Hitler champagne in Kamprad tribute
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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'Ikea founder was an active Nazi': report
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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Ikea beefs up store security following blasts
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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Kamprad pledges Ikea 'transparency'
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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Ten Swedes make Forbes billionaires list
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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Condemn the Swedish model, not Kamprad
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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Ikea founder admits to secret foundation
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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Ikea owner 'distressed' over Russian expansion
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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Ikea assembles record-breaking profits
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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Founders give H&M workers 1 billion kronor
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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Two Swedes named on world rich list
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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Ikea founder 'cried like a baby' over Russian bribery scandal
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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Ikea founders mull sale of Habitat furniture chain
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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Ikea founder calls for more job cuts
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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Ikea swindled out of 1.5 billion in Russia
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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Fifty years of Ikea on display in Stockholm museum
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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Ikea chief wants to 'support social causes'
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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Tough times hit Sweden's billionaires
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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Learning to love Lund
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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Dishwashing trumps Ikea for Swedes
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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Ikea founder: sons as CEO 'not an option'
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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A thin man in fat city
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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Sweden's rich 'are richer than we thought'
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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Kamprad 'still richest in Sweden'
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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Kamprad receives big Ikea dividend
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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Kamprad fourth richest in world
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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Introducing...Ingvar Kamprad
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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Sweden loves Reinfeldt and Wallström
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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Ikea boss reveals profits in Christmas speech
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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Swedes boost Ikea earnings
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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Sweden home to 125 billionaires
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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Ikea to hire 10,000 new staff annually
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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Ikea proves goldmine for Kamprad
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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Size matters as Ikea returns to Japan
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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IKEA founder at top of world rich list
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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Ikea founder calls for more women
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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Ikea founder still richest in Switzerland
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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IKEA wins dispute in Russia
Smörgåsbord: 20 Dec 04
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IKEA founder to complain to Putin
Smörgåsbord: 16 Dec 04
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Ingvar Kamprad Extends Affluence
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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