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While most IKEA stores operate under the direct purview of Ingka Holding and the Ingka Foundation, the IKEA trademark and concept is owned by an entirely separate Dutch company, Inter IKEA Systems.

Every IKEA store, including those run by Ingka Holding, pays a franchise fee of 3 % of the revenue to Inter IKEA Systems.

The ownership of Inter IKEA Systems is exceedingly complicated and, ultimately, uncertain.

Inter IKEA Systems is owned by Inter IKEA Holding, a company registered in Luxembourg.

Inter IKEA Holding, in turn, belongs to an identically named company in the former Netherlands Antilles that is run by a trust company based in Curaçao.

In 2009, the company in Curaçao was liquidated.

The company responsible for this liquidation traces back to the Interogo Foundation in Liechtenstein Ingvar Kamprad has confirmed that this foundation owns Inter IKEA Holding S. A. in Luxembourg and is controlled by the Kamprad family.