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IKEA's climate pledge is bigger than Sweden's

The Swedish furniture giant is spending staggering amounts on renewables and climate adaptation, putting entire countries to shame.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Would you lease an Ikea bookcase?

To keep its products out of landfills and in the homes of customers for longer, Ikea tests out a furniture leasing program in Switzerland.




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Artists transform old Ikea furniture into 'wildhomes' for urban wildlife

Birds, bees, bats and bees in one London park just got swank new digs courtesy of upcycled Ikea furniture.



  • Remodeling & Design

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After Rediscovering Warehouse Treasure Trove of 50,000 Face Masks, IKEA Donates Them All to Hospital

The masks had been left in the warehouse of the Swedish store to gather dust following the most recent bird flu outbreak.

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IKEA Publishes Meatball Recipe for Devoted Fans in Quarantine Pining After the Store’s Beloved Cafés

The Swedish furniture chain published the ingredients and instructions for the saucy meatball dish to their social media pages this week.

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IKEA to sponsor major university sporting event

Coventry University Students’ Union has secured IKEA as the major sponsor for the upcoming annual Varsity sporting event between Coventry University and Warwick University.




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Ikea takes online route in Pune

Currently, over 2,000 people work for Ikea India and the company aims to hire close to 15,000 “co-workers” by 2025.




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IKEA in UAE recalls 'Made in India' travel mugs that may contain harmful chemicals

"To ensure the safety of our customers, we are recalling all TROLIGTVIS travel mugs marked "Made in India". We urge customers to return the product to any of our stores for a full refund. We apologise for any inconvenience this recall may cause," the world's largest furniture retailer said.




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Ikea recalls 'Made in India' mugs due to excessive chemicals

“There are no medical issues and this is purely a proactive initiative keeping the safety of our customers in mind,” the Swedish furniture and home products retailer said on its website, urging consumers to stop using the Troligtvis-branded travel mugs immediately.




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Ikea may entice with malls next to its big stores

Ikea is exploring possibilities of building shopping malls and entertainment facilities next to some of its upcoming standalone stores, or developing multi-storey shopping centres with Ikea as an anchor store, depending on land availability, they said. The company will lease out mall space to other brands and retailers.




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Ikea all set to lock horns with Google & Amazon, partners with Swedish firm to break into audio device market

Home audio is not the only segment that the two firms are targeting. Other products in the range include lights, crockery, furniture, and other knick-knacks like a reflective raincoat and a cajón. Some of the devices like the speakers and smart lighting bulbs can be connected together.




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More custom duty from furniture to kitchenware: Multiple duties singe Ikea

Budget raised custom duties on wooden furniture, tableware etc. Ikea imports about 75% of its products.




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IKEA new CEO targets 'even more affordable' furniture as habits shift

"I think we could broaden the product range a bit in our lower price range," Abrahamsson Ring said, adding that new materials, production techniques and distribution methods would help make IKEA "even more affordable".




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Ikea probes Vadodara-based mug maker Shaily Engineering

The Ikea compliance team last week visited Vadodara-based Shaily Engineering, the company that had supplied the mugs, as part of the investigation, a source said. Ikea was prompted to recall the mugs after tests found excessive level of dibutyl phthalate (DBP), a substance that is used as plasticisers.




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IKEA reduces climate footprint for the first time

From the production of raw materials and products through to customers' use and disposal, emissions shrank 4.3% in the fiscal year to the end of August 2019 to 24.9 million tonnes CO2 equivalents, it said.




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Ikea not to pass on duty hike impact on imported furniture to customers

In the Union Budget 2020 announced on February 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced to increase customs duty on imported furniture from the present 20 per cent to 25 per cent. The move was aimed to protect the interest of the MSME segment. Ikea opened its first store in the country in Hyderabad in August 2018.




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IKEA to sell through third party for first time on Tmall in China

"We see this as a good opportunity to become accessible for many more in China, especially in light of what the Chinese digital environment looks like," Tolga Oncu, head of retail at Ingka, which owns most IKEA stores worldwide, told Reuters.




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Swedish IKEA store finds 50,000 forgotten face masks, gives them to local hospital

Johan Andersson, the store's logistics boss whose team found them, had just read that hospitals were suffering from a shortage of masks amid the coronavirus outbreak so he rang up Sahlgrenska University Hospital - Sweden's biggest - in Gothenburg and asked if they were interested.




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IKEA says visitors returning fast to reopened shopping centres in China and Germany

A majority of IKEA stores are or have been temporarily closed in recent months. A few stores in Germany and Israel, as well as the one in Wuhan, the city in China where the coronavirus was first discovered, reopened this week.




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Eyeing Rs 2k cr in revenue, Kurl-on says partnership with IKEA will prove beneficial

"Some part of Kurl-on's business did get cannibalized with the opening of IKEA's first store in Hyderabad, but it is not a cause of worry," Sudhakar Pai, Chairman and MD, Kurl-on says.




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How Dove chocolate, Applebee's and IKEA are tingling your senses

ASMR, or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, is a new phenomenon being embraced by brands everywhere, in an attempt to tingle your senses and open your wallet.



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The Ikea Dilemma

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To be clear: I'm *real good* at putting together Ikea furniture. The Expedit was designed as a psychological stress test for teams. 




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A small accent lamp from a most unlikely IKEA item

Leaky sauce bottle now leaks a soft warm glow. I used the ÖRTFYLLD as a soy sauce and vinegar bottle, but the one for soy sauce was leaking and rusting in the lid and bottle holder. That’s when I starting wondering … I had a lot of ideas on what I could do with the […]

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Q: Need help with IKEA PAX crooked toe kick

How do I correct wrongly assembled PAX toe kick? I have recently moved into my first own apartment and invested in a new IKEA Pax System. It consists of two separate corpuses, 100cm and 75cm, both 227cm high. We have already built them, screwed the two together and added the doors. Now to the problem:  On the […]

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7 ways to organise small items in IKEA drawers

Are small items getting lost in your IKEA drawers? The usual advice is to get a tray or dividers for drawers to organise smaller things into neat sections. However, not all IKEA drawers come with made-to-fit trays. But fear not, IKEAhackers readers have tray and drawer divider suggestions for the more popular IKEA drawers. So, […]

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See this guy’s striking IKEA makeover during lockdown

With nowhere else to go, 34-year old Fiq Said rolled up his sleeves during quarantine (Movement Control Order) and gave his bedroom an extreme IKEA makeover. While nothing is “hacked” as we’re used to around here, the transformation is startling. It proves in true IKEA fashion, you just need to plan and pick your pieces […]

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How to remove the arms from your IKEA POÄNG armchair

Remove the arms on POÄNG in 2 steps. I liked to type on my laptop while sitting in my old POÄNG. While it was mostly very comfy, my elbows were constrained by the armrests. They had to go. Buy POÄNG armchair | IKEA.com Materials and Tools: POÄNG armchair Wood Saw 4x 40mm screws Drill and […]

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IKEA shares meatball recipe so you can have it at home

DIY meatball recipe till the day we can go to IKEA again. If you’ve been missing the whole IKEA experience, you can now have a slice of it at home, in the form of its famous Swedish meatballs. IKEA recently released its signature recipe via Twitter, the cooking steps depicted in its usual assembly instruction […]

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IKEA bathroom vanity gets a luxurious live edge upgrade

I love the clean and simple lines of the IKEA GODMORGON sink and wall cabinets for the bathroom. However, they can sometimes look a little standard or low grade. In this IKEA hack, we upgraded the GODMORGON vanity look with a live edge white oak countertop, chrome handles, Kohler top-mount sinks and wall-mounted Grohe faucets […]

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From a simple IKEA STIG to a unique farmhouse stool

I’ve been transforming my house into a farmhouse style and I wanted to replace my IKEA STIG bar stools for more rustic ones. I even considered the INGOLF stools but I couldn’t find it in plain wood colour, just black or white. Besides, I couldn’t afford to buy new stools at this moment. So, I decided to grab what […]

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IKEA free backgrounds for more stylish zoom calls

Give your “home office” a virtual makeover with these free zoom backgrounds from IKEA. Just a few months ago, few of us imagined having a home office, let alone working from home full-time. But here we are. We’ve all probably sat in way too many zoom meetings … always tidying up before the call. Quickly, […]

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We are more premium than IKEA: Vasanth Kumar, Managing Director, Lifestyle International

We have co-branded partnerships and also engage in tie-ups with designers. Almost 80% of the business is protected through exclusive tie-ups, says Vasanth Kumar, Managing Director, Lifestyle International




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Around the world: From forever 21 files for bankruptcy to Ikea’s sale surge online

The chain will be shutting 300-350 stores as part of its global business overhaul.




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IKEA to cut 7,500 jobs, focus on e-commerce

Ikea Group, the owner of most IKEA furniture stores worldwide, plans to cut 7,500 jobs over the next couple of years, mainly administrative staff in central support functions, it said on Wednesday.




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Asus celebrates Mother’s Day with #LikeMotherLikeAsus campaign

The campaign highlights the consistent productivity of mothers to adorn multiple hats




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IKEA to Open Stores in Giheung, Geryong, and Busan

Global furniture and home furnishing company IKEA has earned 365 billion won in sales for the past one year in Korea. The company said that it would open a total of six stores in Korea starting with a second store in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, followed by Yongin (Gyeonggi) and Gyeryong (South Chungcheong) by 2020. Andre Schmidtgall, president of IKEA Korea, said on August 29 in a press briefing held in Bread Comma in Seoul's Yeonnam-dong that his company's sales revenue for the 2017 fiscal ye...




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Croydon Ikea towers to be lit up blue to honour NHS workers

The famous brick towers of the Croydon Ikea will light up in blue to show appreciation for NHS workers looking after the UK's coronavirus patients.




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IKEA refuses to comment on claims its 18 UK stores will reopen in 12 days

IKEA has refused to comment on reports its 18 UK stores will be reopening later this month.




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Monstrous feminine: Why we owe TV's unlikeable women to Girls

When Lena Dunham's selfish millennial Hannah Hovarth arrived on TV, critics couldn't believe how awful she was. But she bravely paved the way for truly dreadful anti-heroes like Killing Eve's Villanelle, says Annie Lord




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IKEA shares recipe for its famous Swedish meatballs

The six-step recipe includes the classic Swedish cream sauce




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Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, dies at 91

Ingvar Kamprad changed the industry, making good design affordable, accessible and desirable.




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IKEA is growing lettuce to serve in its restaurants

High-tech hydroponic containers allow for soil-less cultivation and a carefully controlled yield.




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Have we reached Peak Curtains? IKEA's head of sustainability thinks so.

We have lots of stuff, it's just unevenly distributed.




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IKEA is now selling solar systems, no Allen key required

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.




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Flatpack solar-powered refugee housing is IKEA's latest design

Most refugees live in refugee camps for an average of 12 years and most of that time it's in drafty, tattered tents. Now IKEA has a solar-powered camp house that is flatpack and quick to assemble.




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What's killing our kids these days? It isn't IKEA furniture

It's all over the news: IKEA does recall of MALM dressers for toppling over and killing children.




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IKEA recall: Don't blame the parents who didn't install the wall anchors, it's fundamentally bad design

IKEA had a choice to make it shallow and cheap or heavy and deep.




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Ikea deliveries now 100% electric in Shanghai

Well, that happened fast.




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IKEA to launch hackable, open-platform sofa that transforms with your needs

This sofa will convert into a number of uses, and will accommodate third-party add-ons like armrests, backrests, side tables and more.




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IKEA is rolling out urban stores for people who don't want to schlep to the 'burbs

They are sized between the tiny Manhattan "design studio" and their standard big boxes.