How ikea came to be?
In 1943, Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA as a mail-order sales business , and began to sell furniture five years later. The first store was opened in Älmhult, Småland, in 1958, under the name Möbel-IKÉA (Möbel means “furniture” in Swedish).. The first stores outside Sweden were opened in Norway (1963) and Denmark (1969). The stores spread …