UK country manager, Ikea

Almost impossibly youthful, even the rigours of a brutal recession in the home furnishings market haven’t been enough to put wrinkles on the face of the lanky Swede, who turns 35 this month. It won’t have been an easy time for Ikea in the UK, but it remains a business loved by British shoppers, one that Hansson has spent his entire working life in.

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