Despite its Älmhult roots, the centre of the flat-pack giant’s structure is the Netherlands
Think of Ikea, and you might think of Scandinavian design, big sheds of flat-pack furniture and a Swedish heritage. You might not think of a busy motorway junction in the Netherlands. Nonetheless, this is where perhaps the most important part of the sprawling Ikea empire is located. Inter Ikea, which owns the brand and concept as well as being responsible for product design and manufacturing of the group, is based in Delft just off the motorway joining Rotterdam and The Hague.
All Ikea stores pay 3 per cent of their turnover as a franchise fee to Inter Ikea, which in turn provides the brand, product range and manufacturing. Cynics might also say that Kamprad also talked a lot about tax. He left Sweden in the 1970s in protest at what he saw as eye-watering levels of taxation that were so high his three sons could be forced to sell Ikea or float it.
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