We all know how simple IKEA’s instructions for constructing its flat pack furniture are. At the other end of the scale of simplicity, in fact, at the level of preposterously complex, is IKEA’s corporate structure. Founder Ingvar Kamprad has published claims that the company is open about its structure, and has published what he says is the full extent of the web of ownership. However, a report from earlier this year by the Greens/EFA party in the EU shows that his picture of the corporation’s structure does not even come close to the actual web.
