Find Ikea Store Near Me and IKEA Hours and IKEA Locations: Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943 as a mostly mail-order sales business. It began to sell furniture five years later. The first Möbel-IKÉA store was opened in Älmhult, Småland, in 1958 (Möbel means “furniture” in Swedish). The first stores outside Sweden were opened in Norway (1963) and Denmark (1969). As of December 2016, IKEA owns and operates 392 stores in 48 countries. In the fiscal year 2016, €36.4 billion worth of goods were sold, a total that represented a 7.6 percent increase over 2015. The IKEA website contains about 12,000 products and is the closest representation of the entire IKEA range. Ikea History: On 26 March 2015, a set of 19 storage buildings holding various film and TV props, owned by Western Studio Services, was demolished in favor of the construction of the largest IKEA ...