Died the founder of IKEA Ingvar Kamprad
STOCKHOLM, January 28 — RIA Novosti, Lyudmila Bozhko. The founder of IKEA Ingvar Kamprad has died at the age of 91 years, on Sunday announced to IKEA.
“Ingvar Kamprad quietly passed away at his home in småland… Ingvar will be sorely missed, and his family and IKEA employees around the world will remember him fondly,” — said in the message IKEA, posted in Facebook.
Kamprad was born in 1926 and founded his company in the age of 17. From 1973 to 2014, lived in Switzerland. As of the year 2009 was the richest resident of that country. In 2014 he returned to Sweden in protest against high taxes.