03 With 287 stores in thirty-eight countries and 655 million customers world- wide, IKEA is the world's largest furniture retailer. The company was founded in Sweden in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad. At the beginning, the company was only selling consumer goods; in 1948 they also added furniture shipping to their sales portfolio. Transporting bulky parts of furniture in ? at packs was a revolutionary idea in distribution in those days. There was no

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