IKEA Story IKEA stands for Ingvar Kamprad (founder) and Elmlaryd Agunnaryd(village in which it was started).

In 1951,it printed its first catalogue. In 1955 ,it started designing the furnitures. The first store was opened in 1958. In 1963 , it opened its first store outside sweden in Norway(Oslo).

Highest number of stores in Germany. In 1997,it opened its website and named it "World wide living room website". "Leading by design:The Ikea story" is the biography on its founder.

Ingvar Kamprad founded the IKEA in Sweden IKEA runs social welfare programs with the help of UNICEF. For more information ,please visit http://www.ikeafurniture.biz