Once believed to be the richest man on the planet billionaire IKEA founder lives in modest house, eats at his store's cafe and shops at local market

Mr Kamprad aged 87 flies budget class, takes the bus and eats at his IKEA café. In contrast he also owns a country estate in Sweden and a French vineyard.

Can you imagine the fifth wealthiest businessmen in the world whose interior business revolutionized the trade, living a life that is unimaginably simple? A man who can easily afford a private jet flying on economy class whenever he need to? Shopping in the local market and travels in public transport?

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IKEA recorded an annual net profit of £3.2billion and an achieved sale of £27.6billion throughout 44 countries through their domination of the home-furnishing market is phenomenal. Company is also the third largest wood consumer of the world.

  

The scale of the company can be imagined as it said reported that one in 10 Europeans is now conceived on an Ikea bed.  While the company grows continuously Kamprad doubled his company's charitable donations to nearly £100million. His employees claim that he always want to appear like everybody else, a common man like his employees.

His modest house in Swiss

When he opened his first store

Contrary he owns a large country estate in Sweden and a vineyard in Provence on top of the Swiss bungalow. Although he is the man he is today, in 60s he said to have lived a luxury life when he drove one of the best a Porsches then.