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Study claims Ikea's 'maze' is selling ploy
IKEA has pioneered an ingenious architectural strategy intended to encourage customers to buy as much flat-packed furniture as possible, according to research by a leading urban design expert.
Ikea reports global profits of £2.36bn
Flat pack furniture giant Ikea, which is seeking to shed its reputation as a secretive company, continued its programme of increasing transparency yesterday by unveiling record profits of €2.69 billion (£2.26bn).
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Ikea bucks trend as sales edge up to £1.2bn
Secretive Swedish retail giant Ikea yesterday bucked a difficult year for the home furnishings sector to post a modest rise in sales at its UK business.
Ikea assembles modest sales rise in 'tough' conditions
FLAT-PACK furniture giant Ikea has scraped out a modest rise in sales despite a "tough" economic backdrop.
Looking back at a decade of IKEA
FROM flatpack furniture to meatballs and little plastic containers you never realised you really needed, to assorted cushions, ethnic inspired rugs and duvet covers with unpronounceable names, it all adds up to just one little four letter word.
Ikana say that? Ikea threatens to sue
A SMALL Scottish furniture company has been threatened with legal action by Ikea over a sales slogan which pokes gentle fun at the Swedish retail giant.
Ikea walking all over us, say angry Danes
POWER games between Scandinavian neighbours are nothing new – generations of monarchs fought bitter battles over land for the best part of a millennium.
Skulduggery afoot at Ikea
IS IKEA, the iconic Scandinavian design emporium, nasty to the Danes? Those who buy their furniture and household products there will know that traditionally it gives each design range the name of a Scandinavian town, animal or geographical feature.
Ikea earnings fall 8 per cent
SWEDISH furniture giant IKEA saw its pre-tax profit drop eight per cent last year to £90.2 million.
Ikea blames 'challenging' times for job cuts
IKEA has shocked the UK retail sector with news it plans to cut 300 managerial positions due to "challenging" trading conditions in the home furnishing sector, although the firm has yet to say where the cuts, expected to be in January 2008, will be made.
IKEA to cut 300 managerial jobs in surprise overhaul
HOME furnishings giant IKEA is to axe 300 managerial posts in the UK as part of a "restructuring" of its British stores.
Aberdeen fails to lure IKEA
FURNITURE giant IKEA has decided against opening a store in Aberdeen, it emerged yesterday.
Flat-pack feast
IKEA'S budget breakfast beats the four biggest supermarket chains on price.
Ikea staff get on their bikes
THE 9000 UK employees of Swedish furniture giant Ikea have been given a folding bike as their Christmas present from the firm.
IKEA wheels out workers' gifts for a green Christmas
IKEA has given out folding bikes to thousands of employees to encourage them to cycle to work.
You've built the kit furniture - now you can try IKEA's kit homes
IKEA, the Swedish flatpack furniture chain, is set to bring its all-in-one Scandinavian kit-homes to Edinburgh, with prices below £100,000.
Ikea homes in on the Scots housing market
IKEA, the Swedish flat-pack furniture group, is to start building timber-frame kit homes across Britain to help tackle the shortage of affordable housing.
Ikea starts online trials
FURNITURE chain Ikea is to begin internal trials of its online shopping service this week.
Ikea aims to furnish some festive fun
FURNITURE giant Ikea has announced the line-up for its full Winter Festival programme.
IKEA plans ice rink at Edinburgh store
THE furniture giant IKEA plans to compete with Edinburgh's Winter Festival by creating an ice rink in the car park of its Straiton store - a move dismissed by Hogmanay events boss Pete Irvine as "desperate".
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