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Kamprad devotes two chapters to his time in Nysvenska Rörelsen in his book, Leading By Design: The IKEA Story and, in a 1994 letter to IKEA employees, called his affiliation with the organisation the " greatest mistake of my life.
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Kamprad devotes two chapters to his time in Nysvenska Rörelsen in his book, Leading By Design: The IKEA Story and, in a 1994 letter to IKEA employees, called his affiliation with the organization the " greatest mistake of his life.
Kamprad and Nysvenska
* As a teenager, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was directly involved in the pro-Nazi New Swedish Movement ( Nysvenska Rörelsen ) until at least 1948, causing tensions when IKEA began opening stores in Israel, although one source has claimed that the movement was not pro-Nazi.
Kamprad and IKEA
IKEA contends that it has been a pioneering force in sustainable approaches to mass consumer culture .. Kamprad refers to the concept as " democratic design ," meaning that the company applies an integrated approach to manufacturing and design ( see also environmental design ).
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.
The IKEA food concessions which operate in IKEA stores are still owned directly by the Kamprad family which provides a major part of the family's income.
The foundation's nonprofit status also means that the Kamprad family cannot reap these profits directly, but the Kamprads do collect a portion of IKEA sales profits through the franchising relationship between INGKA Holding and Inter IKEA Systems.
Along with helping IKEA make non-taxable profit, IKEA's complicated corporate structure allows Kamprad to maintain tight control over the operations of Ingka Holding, and thus the operation of most IKEA stores.
IKEA, is not, in fact, a Swedish company, but a company controlled by the Dutch stichting – a tax exempt, nonprofit foundation – to which Ingvar Kamprad transferred his ownership shares in 1982.
Kamprad also created a company called Inter IKEA Systems B. V., which owns IKEA concept and trademark.
Inter IKEA is owned by a foundation in Liechtenstein, called Interogo, which has amassed twelve billion dollars, is controlled by the Kamprad family.
The first IKEA store was opened in Älmhult, by Ingvar Kamprad.
Ingvar Feodor Kamprad (; born 30 March 1926 ) is a Swedish and the founder of IKEA, a retail company.
According to an interview with TSR, the French language Swiss TV broadcaster, Kamprad drives a 1993 Volvo 240, flies only economy class, and encourages IKEA employees always to write on both sides of a piece of paper.
" In addition, Kamprad has been known to visit IKEA for a " cheap meal.
The acronym IKEA is made up of the initials of his name ( Ingvar Kamprad ) plus those of Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnaryd.
This report is based on the assumption that Kamprad owns the entire company, an approach that both IKEA and the Kamprad family reject.
The Dutch-registered Stichting INGKA Foundation is named after Ingvar Kamprad ( i. e. ING + KA ) who owns INGKA Holding, the parent company for all IKEA stores.
Kamprad and 1994
In 1994, the personal letters of the Swedish fascist activist Per Engdahl were made public after his death, and it was revealed that Kamprad had joined Engdahl's pro-fascist New Swedish Movement in 1942.
Kamprad and with
Company founder Ingvar Kamprad, who is dyslexic, found that naming the furniture with proper names and words, rather than a product code, made the names easier to remember.
While working with furniture manufacturers in Poland earlier in his career, Kamprad became an alcoholic.
As of March 2007, Ingvar Kamprad was the fourth wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth of US $ 33 billion.
In October 2009, following several years of trading losses, the Kamprad family, who own IKANO, put the company up for sale, and it was sold to Hilco, a restructuring specialist, in December 2009 with the Kamprad family writing off the debts of the company and providing € 50 million (£ 45 million ) of working capital while Hilco paid about € 15m.
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Ingvar Kamprad has confirmed that this foundation is controlled by him and his family.
INGKA Holding is not an independent company, but is wholly owned by the Stichting Ingka Foundation, which Kamprad established in 1982 in the Netherlands as a tax-exempt, not-for-profit foundation.
The Ingka Foundation is controlled by a five-member executive committee that is chaired by Kamprad and includes his wife and attorney.
Holding, another Luxembourg-registered group that, according to The Economist, " is almost certain to be controlled by the Kamprad family.
The Ingka Foundation's five-person executive committee is chaired by Kamprad.
Kamprad was born in Pjätteryd ( now part of Älmhult Municipality ), Sweden.
Kamprad has lived in Epalinges, Switzerland since 1976.
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