Ingvar Kamprad grew up on a farm called Elmtaryd in Agunnaryd
Why are we telling you this? No reason, except that you’ll now know where the name IKEA came from. Ingvar Kamprad (from) Elmtaryd (in) Agunnaryd. Pretty cool, right? There’s no real hidden meaning behind it, but it’s a fascinating tidbit that you can share with your friends and family who don’t really care.
The history of IKEA is pretty interesting. One of the weirdest things is that the execs in West Germany accidentally opened up an IKEA store in Konstanz instead of Koblenz. How does such a mishap take place? As it turns out, IKEA was expanding at such a fast rate that the German execs didn’t have time to double-check their building plans.