IKEA
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- a Swedish company started in 1943 by Ingvar Kampard (1926-2018) which makes and sells simple, well-designed furniture and other items for the home at low prices. It opened its first store in the US in 1985 and in Britain in 1987, and it now has hundreds of stores in countries around the world.