Company Profile for IKEA
IKEA International Group
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | Älmhult, Småland, Sweden (1943) |
| Headquarters | Delft, Netherlands |
| Industry | Retail |
| Key People | Mikael Ohlsson (Chairman and CEO) Omar Gulay (President and CEO, Inter IKEA Group) Sören Hansen(VP and CFO, Inter IKEA Group) |
| Products | Self-assembly furniture |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
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420 Alan Wood Rd.
Conshohocken, PA 19428
Toll free: 1-800-434-4532
www.ikea.com
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Didn't Notice Damage To IKEA Item Before Attaching Legs? Tough
By Laura Northrup on May 16, 2012 10:34 AM
52 Comments
If you want to get a refund for a damaged IKEA item, God help you if you take a few minutes to put it together first. Alan ordered a desk, which had a small dent in the side of the box. Figuring the item inside was fine, he put it together. This turned out to be a fatal mistake, since assembling an item means you're then unable to More »
Did IKEA Use East German Political Prisoners To Make Its Adorable Furniture?
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 2, 2012 11:00 AM
27 Comments
Putting together IKEA furniture is hard enough for people who go out and willingly buy it, knowing later they'll be gazing adoringly at the affordability of it all while digesting meatballs. But it would be much worse to be say, an East German political prisoner forced to manufacture the stuff before the fall of the Berlin Wall. More »
How Would You Like An IKEA HDTV For Your IKEA House Filled With IKEA Furniture?
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 17, 2012 2:00 PM
30 Comments
If you can already go whole hog and buy an entire house from IKEA to fill up with your IKEA shelves and bed frames and pictures of sailboats, why not watch TV on a new IKEA HDTV? It's built in to an IKEA TV unit, of course. More »
Now You Can Buy An Entire IKEA House For $86,500
By Chris Morran on March 2, 2012 4:45 PM
72 Comments
Not content with merely furnishing every room of your house with IKEA stuff? Well, if you have a bit of land and $86,500 to spend the home furnishings chain could provide you with an entire (albeit small) house in which to put your Ektorps and Malms. More »
Report: Ikea Paid French Police To Spy On Its Staff & Customers
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 1, 2012 11:00 AM
14 Comments
A French newspaper is claiming that those fresh-faced, furniture-loving Swedes at Ikea have been handing cash to police in exchange for files on its staff and customers. The claims say Ikea asked for checks on criminal records, vehicle registrations and more. More »
IKEA Finally Gets Around To Creating Assembly Videos
By Chris Morran on February 22, 2012 3:15 PM
42 Comments
If you've ever tried to furnish a home or apartment without breaking the bank, you've probably come face to face with one or more of IKEA's essentially wordless, diagrammatic assembly instruction booklets. And if you've tried to assemble something more complicated than an ottoman, you might have wished you could just watch someone else do it so you don't screw it up any further. More »
At IKEA, 'In Stock' Doesn't Mean 'We'll Actually Get It Down For You'
By Laura Northrup on January 9, 2012 11:33 AM
88 Comments
Michael wanted to drop $600 on a pair of wardrobes from IKEA, and even called ahead before driving out to the store to make sure the items were there. When he arrived, though, he learned that "in stock" doesn't actually mean "you can purchase it today," because someone would have to get a new pallet of wardrobes down from an upper level of the warehouse. That wasn't going to happen: a warehouse manager told Michael that they'd rather lose Michael's business rather than risk the safety of employees. While this emphasis on worker safety is refreshing, Michael thinks it's unfair. More »
Breaking The IKEA Catalog's Fourth Wall
By Laura Northrup on December 1, 2011 8:00 AM
24 Comments
What happens inside the pages of an IKEA catalog when no one's looking? Don't be silly. A catalog is just photographs, not a real-time portal into a secret world where real people are always standing very, very still to create a façade of domestic perfection on a budget. Or that's what they want you to think. More »
Ikea Redesigns Bookshelf To Hold More Non-Book Items
By Mary Beth Quirk on September 12, 2011 11:15 AM
36 Comments
Who needs a bookshelf with important, leather-bound books when you have so many other trinkets to store on shelves? Ikea is taking note of the move toward e-books and has responded to the increasingly electronic world by redesigning its BILLY bookshelf as more of a just, you know, things-shelf. More »
What If You Actually Lived Inside IKEA?
By Ben Popken on May 9, 2011 12:00 PM
25 Comments
Christian went on a trip to IKEA with his buddies and began to imagine, as many have upon seeing the different "sets" around the store recreating rooms in a house fully furnished by IKEA furniture, what would it be like if you actually lived inside the IKEA store? Since he's a really good photographer, he and his pals then staged a series of delightful photos bringing this concept to life. Very fun way of bringing IKEA's marketing metaphor to its literal conclusion. It also reminds me of this short sitcom about a family that lives in IKEA that came out last year. More »
