Classic career from zero to millionaire. The former carpet salesman Mikael Ohlsson will cover from 1 September the head of the Swedish group job Ikea furniture.

Ohlsson (52) at this position replaces Anders Dahlviga who, after ten years at the top of the global giant with nearly 130 thousand. employees in 24 countries, resigns from the post at their own request. Ohlsson remains loyal to his employer: his career began 30 years ago in the Ikea store in the Swedish Linköping. He worked there in the carpets and carpets, where according to former colleagues, performed a good job. Not  to view boss  Ingka-Holding in the Netherlands. Ingka-Holding exercises control over the entire group, founded in 1943 in Sweden by Ingvar Kamprad Älmhult. Since that time, Ohlsson goes  in the top levels of the career was the head of Ikea in Sweden for 15 years and sits on the Board of the group. Recently, he served as vice president of Southern Europe and North America. On regarded as very mad  Ohlsson face huge task. Although in the last ten years of its predecessor, has doubled the number of Ikea stores worldwide, a turnover has increased three-fold to 21.3 billion euros - also suffers from Ikea now in decline due to customer reticence.