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The Truth about IKEA - The Secret Success of the World's most Popular Furniture Brand

The Truth about IKEA - The Secret Success of the World's most Popular Furniture Brand

by Johan Stenebo

 eBook, Published by Faber Factory   (25 November 2010)

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How did IKEA become the world's largest design brand, as popular as Lego, CocaCola and Nike? Privately held by one of the world's richest men, the company is renowned for its secrecy. How did the company transform itself from one rural Swedish store to a global behemoth with a turnover of billion and 700 million visitors a year? In this candid analysis, former IKEA top director Johan Stenebo writes for the first time about the corporation's ruthless rise to the top. Revealing IKEA's daring and unique business model, he covers the leadership of IKEA's founder Ingvar Kamprad, with whom he worked closely, and IKEA's resourceful ways of brand management using companies like Greenpeace and WWF to cover environmental issues, as well as its challenging future without Kamprad.'Merciless.' Independent
'Merciless... the wholesome Scandinavian image of furniture and lifestyle giant Ikea has been rudely shaken.' Independent 'Stung.' Financial Times '[A] shocking tell-all book - Johan Stenebo was the closest collaborator of IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad.' Der Spiegel online 'A long overdue expose - sensational.' Goteborgs Posten Johan Stenebo was for 20 years one of the leading directors of IKEA while it turned itself into the world's largest flatpack furniture retailer with 700 million visitors a year. During these years, he was the personal assistant to Ingvar Kamprad, the billionaire founder and owner of IKEA, set up its Leeds store that broke profit records, was global director of key furniture areas, and latterly CEO of investment company IKEA Greentech.

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