IKEA making it one of the largest users of wood in the retail sector. Most of IKEA's stores and factories were previously owned by INGKA, a holding company controlled by the Stichting INGKA Foundation, one of the 40 wealthiest foundations in the world. 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). The stores spread to other parts of Europe in
Ingvar a place called Stein (see also Sveigder). The Estonians ("sýslu kind") assembled a great army in the interior and attacked King Ingvar in a great battle. The Estonian forces were too powerful and Ingvar fell and the Swedish forces retreated. Ingvar was buried in a mound at a place called "Stone" or "Hill fort" ("at Steini") on the shores of Estonia ("Aðalsýsla"). Snorri then quotes a stanza from Þjóðólfr of Hvinir's "Ynglingatal": The "Historia Norwegiæ" presents a Latin summary of "Ynglingatal", older than Snorri's quotation (continuing after Eysteinn): "Ynglingatal" only mentions the location "Sysla" (area paying tribute), "Historia Norwegiae" only