Swedish entrepreneur who founded IKEA in 1943 from rural Småland and built it into the world's largest furniture retailer through radical cost discipline, flat-pack innovation, and the in-store showroom experience.
Invented the flat-pack furniture model — designing furniture to ship and assemble efficiently rather than arrive assembled — dramatically reducing logistics costs and allowing IKEA to price furniture at a fraction of competitors while maintaining quality.
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