The rise and rise of Sweden's flatpack king.

Swedish business magnate Ingvar Kamprad had been at the helm of IKEA, one of the world's largest furniture stores and most beloved brands, for more than 70 years when his death was announced ...

Founded by Ingvar Kamprad, a reclusive Swedish businessman who died in January 2018, Ikea is one of the largest retailers in the world. In the year of his death, Kamprad was the number one investor.

A photo of Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Swedish multinational furniture retailer IKEA, and a book of condolences are placed at the entrance of an IKEA store in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 28, 2018.

Ingvar Kamprad began preparing for his death after his 50th birthday in 1976, to ensure that the company had enough money to grow on its own—he was fiercely opposed to going public.

Ingvar Kamprad, whose boyhood business of selling pencils and seeds from his bicycle in Sweden eventually grew into the Ikea furniture chain, has died. He was 91. “One of the greatest ...

Swedish business magnate Ingvar Kamprad has been at the helm of IKEA, one of the world's largest furniture stores and most beloved brands, for more than 70 years. With a net worth of $39.3 billion ...

Ingvar Kamprad, founder of the world's largest furniture retailer, IKEA, died at his home in Smaland, Sweden, on Saturday. He was 91 years old. The company shared news of Kamprad's death on Sunday ...

A new book claims IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad's youth ties with Nazi groups went beyond what he previously admitted, Sweden's intelligence agency set up a special file on him.

If so, Ingvar Kamprad — the “IK” in IKEA — was responsible for countless do-it-yourself assembly quarrels in a world he furnished with cheap, simple and sometimes disposable bookcases ...

STOCKHOLM — Ingvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder who turned a small-scale mail order business into a global furniture empire, has died at 91, the company said Sunday.