Swedish multinational furniture and home goods retailer founded by Ingvar Kamprad in 1943, owned by a complex Dutch foundation structure, and the world's largest furniture retailer.
Invented flat-pack furniture as a logistics innovation — transferring assembly cost to the customer in exchange for dramatically lower prices — then embedded the shopping experience itself (the store journey, the restaurant, the catalog) as a retention mechanism.
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