World'S Richest Man: Ikea Guy
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| Swede overtakes Gates as world's richest
STOCKHOLM--Ingvar Kamprad, the Swede who founded furniture retail chain IKEA, has overtaken Microsoft's Bill Gates as the world's richest man, Swedish TV news reported Sunday.
Citing next week's edition of the Swedish business weekly Veckans Affarer, public service SVT2 television said Kamprad, 77, has a personal fortune of 400 billion crowns ($53 billion).
Gates's fortune is put at $47 billion, according to the latest list of the world's rich in Forbes magazine, SVT2 said.
Kamprad, known for frugal habits such as flying economy class, lives in Switzerland and no longer takes part in the daily running of IKEA, but has kept ownership of the company in the family with more than 180 stores in more than 30 countries.
SVT2 said the dollar's slide against other currencies is the main reason why Kamprad has now overtaken Gates. |
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| any bets he doesn't own any ikea furniture? |
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| Kamprad, known for frugal habits such as flying economy class
im pretty sure he does actually |
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| hahah, good point. |
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| does he have a son? |
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| two, i believe. |
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| I read in the Gazette today that IKEA denied all reports Kamprad is world's richest man. |
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| i HOPE this dude is the richest man on earth. i swear i must have shelled out close to $2000 on ikea furniture over the past 2 years. |
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| most ikea furniture blows...and falls apart.
what else can you expect from particleboard, tho. |
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| i've got a bunch of ikea stuff, i likes it. |
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| ikea stuff falls apart? since whne?
its teice as thick as ANY other furniture you buy ANYWHERE |
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| I'd buy ikea over most other large furneture stores..
unless i was getting a couch or something, then it's all up in the air. |
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| it's funny when you walk into someones house, and all it is, is a real life ikea brocheure...
this coming from someone who don't really know what ikea crap is |
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| nah, you like everyone else has seen fightclub. |
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| Y'know, there's just ONE thing I could possibly think of that could have been added to Fight Club that would have worked perfectly with the dark humor of it.
When "Jack"'s apartment got blown out and he's looking on the floor at all his stuff black and smoldering, they shou;d have bust out the IKEA labels again pointing to what piece of ash used to be what.
That would have ruled. |
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| hahahaha |
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| ikea stuff is particleboard. the glue on particleboard eventually comes apart. its cheap quality. they can make a wall unit for about $4 - simply composed of particleboard and a bit of laminate - and sell it at $500.
Least get solid wood if yr going to spend that kind of money on something from ikea. I'm waiting for my dresser from there to fall apart since it weighs like, 200 lbs and its on 4 little measly legs. |
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| ...but is ikea EVER fun, tho. :P |
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| all those trends lead to one thing: disposable furniture. its pretty much reality now for most average budget people who move every now and then, and will probably be mainstream in five years or something. |
World'S Richest Man: Ikea Guy
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