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...RANK NAME CITIZENSHIP AGE NET WORTH * RESIDENCE 1 William Gates III U.S. 51 56.0 U.S. 2 Carlos Slim Helú Mexico 67 53.1 Mexico 3 Warren Buffett U.S. 76 52.4 U.S. 4 Ingvar Kamprad Sweden 81 33.0 Switzerland 5 Lakshmi Mittal India 56 32.0 Britain...
...KAMPRAD: Our competitors have become more and more clever. Last year IKEA opened nine stores in the U.S. and Canada. I believe it is too many. For me, a store is a living thing. It must be developed all the time...
...KAMPRAD: We're starting in Russia with huge dreams. We have four stores and a shopping center, but we'll operate in the red for five to 10 years. We can take it, because we don't have [shareholders] coming to us every quarter asking for results. We have an important social mission there. Our [guiding principle] is to produce products for the majority of people. Hopefully, [we will help] the standard of life in Russia rise. In China we have only two stores, but we have lots of land to construct on, so I think we'll be rather...
...KAMPRAD: There are 10,000 products in our range; 5,000 are in every store in every country. The rest vary. I'm a little frustrated right now. [He holds up his coffee mug.] I haven't seen this mug in our assortment. I must go see the head of this restaurant. I will hang him if he has bought this mug outside IKEA...
...KAMPRAD: Yes, of course...