IKEA

IKEA (an abbreviation for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd) is a Swedish multinational chain, founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad. Despite its Swedish roots, the companies headquarter is located in Delft, the Netherlands.

IKEA sells furniture, household goods and food. It has 392 (2016) locations over the world in 51 countries. Their items require set-up by the purchaser, which has been known to be quite frustrating at times and has become the fodder of jokes (as an example, when founder Kamprad passed away in 2018, it was joked that the funeral would be postponed due to difficulties assembling his IKEA coffin[1]).

## References[edit]

* Official site
* Web Archive.org
* ↑ http://newsthump.com/2018/01/31/ikea-founders-funeral-postponed-because-family-cant-assemble-the-casket