A mail-order business that lowered furniture prices by making customers do the assembly.
Episode in production. Get notified →Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in Sweden in 1943, beginning with mail-order goods before moving into furniture. The company developed flat-pack designs that customers assembled at home.
Flat packing reduced shipping and storage costs and became central to IKEA’s low prices and self-serve store format.
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