With more than 220 stores in over 30 countries around the world featuring over 12,000 products, its hard to imagine the original IKEA sold matches and pens from a bike!

But the world changed with the introduction of Danish Modern modular furniture, and flat packaging which sent that furniture home in a box.

It all goes back to that cold day in 1926 when an enterprising young man named Ingvar Kamprad was born on the family farm known as Elmtaryd, in the south Swedish town of Agunnaryd -- so D is correct.






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