Ikea: How to become the World's Richest Man

* An essential resource for original business ideas, strategy and branding

* How a single store grew into a $30-billion global market-leader

* 100 per cent equity retained since the company was founded

* Includes the IKEA briefing given to top management

* The only warts-and-all view by a C-suite insider and right-hand man of its founder

IKEA-branded products are bought all over the world - from the Americas to the Far East. This is the only book to tell from the inside with candour the IKEA story and how one man created its astonishing success from a modest furniture store in rural Sweden. Remarkably, the founding family still holds all of IKEA's shares. Its unorthodox business philosophy has proven so successful that IKEA's meteoric expansion continues to be financed from the company's cash flow only. Without attracting public scrutiny, its founder became the richest man in the world while making IKEA a unique phenomenon among fast-growing businesses.

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Ikea: How to become the World's Richest Man

* An essential resource for original business ideas, strategy and branding

* How a single store grew into a $30-billion global market-leader

* 100 per cent equity retained since the company was founded

* Includes the IKEA briefing given to top management

* The only warts-and-all view by a C-suite insider and right-hand man of its founder

IKEA-branded products are bought all over the world - from the Americas to the Far East. This is the only book to tell from the inside with candour the IKEA story and how one man created its astonishing success from a modest furniture store in rural Sweden. Remarkably, the founding family still holds all of IKEA's shares. Its unorthodox business philosophy has proven so successful that IKEA's meteoric expansion continues to be financed from the company's cash flow only. Without attracting public scrutiny, its founder became the richest man in the world while making IKEA a unique phenomenon among fast-growing businesses.

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Ikea: How to become the World's Richest Man

Ikea: How to become the World's Richest Man

by Johan Stenbo
Ikea: How to become the World's Richest Man

Ikea: How to become the World's Richest Man

by Johan Stenbo

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Overview

* An essential resource for original business ideas, strategy and branding

* How a single store grew into a $30-billion global market-leader

* 100 per cent equity retained since the company was founded

* Includes the IKEA briefing given to top management

* The only warts-and-all view by a C-suite insider and right-hand man of its founder

IKEA-branded products are bought all over the world - from the Americas to the Far East. This is the only book to tell from the inside with candour the IKEA story and how one man created its astonishing success from a modest furniture store in rural Sweden. Remarkably, the founding family still holds all of IKEA's shares. Its unorthodox business philosophy has proven so successful that IKEA's meteoric expansion continues to be financed from the company's cash flow only. Without attracting public scrutiny, its founder became the richest man in the world while making IKEA a unique phenomenon among fast-growing businesses.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781783341726
Publisher: Global Book Sales
Publication date: 02/01/2022
Edition description: Large Print
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 5.08(w) x 7.79(h) x (d)

About the Author

Johan Stenebo was a key IKEA director for over twenty years and one of the closest collaborators of Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA's billionaire founder.

Table of Contents

What (not) to do in an IKEA store 4

The will of a furniture seller 5

Introduction 13

1 The secret behind IKEA 17

2 The man and the myth 18

3 The IKEA-machine 45

4 The Suppliers 53

5 'The product range - our identity' 63

6 The store - the stronghold of commercial forces 77

7 IKEA's company culture 97

8 The winds of change 122

9 The world's richest man…and a liar? 139

10 An ethical company? 146

11 The Kamprad monarchy 162

The rise and fall of IKEA UK 176

Afterword 183

The Future of Ikea after Ingvar's death 185

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