Always Coming Back from Something

I’m ba-aack! This time I’m coming back from Sweden. Ah, Sweden. Where the mosquitoes come to fornicate and reproduce millions of baby-mosquitoes every single year in the month of June (veracious, veracious!).

Except from being synonymous with itching, Sweden is also known for IKEA. I love IKEA. I could decorate an entire villa with furniture from IKEA. Most people frown upon that statement, and I want to take this opportunity to frown back at them: :S

Official statement: I could never marry an IKEA-hater. Official statement over. Roger!

OK, so back to IKEA;

Ingvar Feodor Kamprad turned 83 this year. He founded IKEA in 1943 – at the mere age of 17. At the beginning they only sold smaller merchandise such as frames and jewellery, but rapidly expanded and by 1955 IKEA were designing (and selling, of course.) their own furniture.
The name IKEA consists of Kamprad’s initials (I.K.), and is followed by Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd – respectively the name of the families farm and the village he grew up in.

IKEA's annoying (yes, I’ll admit it; annoying!) flat packs went into production in 1956. Well, at least they started testing it out in 1956. Unfortunately, it worked. They still have everything packed really flat.

IKEA kept growing and expanding through the years, and in 1983 they hired their 6000th employee (multiply that number with 8,83333 and you’ll know how many were employed there 10 years ago. Geek.). Two years later their first warehouse in the US of A opened.
http://www.ikea.com/ become a reality in 1997, and although we might not know exactly how many visitors they have a month I’m guessing it’s quite a few!

And the silver lining? We could ask Kamprad, but with his billions of dollars to spend I’m guessing he’s just too busy to answer!

Jealous.