All Ikea articles – Page 27
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NewsIkea breaks with history to reveal annual results
Furniture giant Ikea has broken its traditional habit and issued full-year results in acknowledgement of widespread interest in the business.
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NewsIkea eyes Reading for next store
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is preparing a planning application for a new store in Calcot, near Reading. It would be its first store opening in the UK and Ireland in more than a year.
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AnalysisCarrier bag usage
UK retailers are succeeding on their own initiative in reducing carrier bag usage, so why is compulsory legislation needed to ban them?
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NewsIn Focus: Steinhoff
Furniture is retail’s hardest hit sector in a recession. High-profile names such as MFI, Land of Leather and The Pier have disappeared, ScS went into administration but survived and all have struggled. But one group seems to have bucked the trend, at least in turning itself around from four years ...
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NewsRetail recovery remains on course despite VAT rise
Leading retailers have reacted with relief to this week’s emergency Budget and are confident that it won’t derail the retail recovery.
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Ikea to harmonise merchandise management systems
Ikea’s global franchise manager, Inter Ikea Systems, has started a new initiative to harmonise merchandise management systems across its international franchisee network.he Swedish home improvement retail franchiser has named K3 Business Technology Group as sole provider of Ikea’s core retail system.
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Ikea postpones Ukraine expansion plan
Ikea has postponed a plan to build a network of stores in Ukraine.Oksana Belaichuk, Ikea’s public relations director for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, said: “The leadership of the Ikea group of companies has decided to suspend the search for new land plots and temporarily postpone the plan ...
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Ikea seeks 12 new stores in Spain
Ikea will open its first store in the northern region of Galicia in July.The furniture and furnishings retailer has invested e60m (£52m) in the store on a 323,000 sq ft site and it will create 400 jobs.The Spanish press has reported that Ikea wants to open 12 new stores in ...
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AnalysisA cycle of recycling
Retailers are taking a two-pronged strategy of reducing their own waste while encouraging their customers to recycle more too
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AnalysisConsumer Finance: Credit where credit’s due
The credit market has faced a shake-up, but with in-store credit still accounting for billions in sales providers are innovating to offer better point-of-sale finance.
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AnalysisRetail iPhone apps: Mobile commerce on the move?
Can the upsurge in mobile phone apps from retailers turn the hype of mobile commerce into a reality, or are they just a passing fad?
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Ikea to launch first Latin American store
Ikea has opened its first store in Latin America. The store is located on a 753,500 sq ft plot in the Dominican Republic’s capital Santo Domingo.The store cost $85m (£54.5m) to build and will provide as many as 2,500 direct and indirect jobs.
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OpinionWatch and learn
Retailers are beginning to emulate the idea-incubating cultures that exist within the most successful technology companies, but there is still some way to go before they admit that failure is not always defeat.
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AnalysisWhat it’s like to work at… IKEA UK & Ireland
The inside view from human resources operations manager Cathy Donnelly
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NewsIkea buys retail park near Reading
Swedish furniture giant Ikea has bought a retail park in Theale, near Reading.
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NewsKingfisher appoints former global Ikea boss as non exec
Ikea’s former global chief executive Anders Dahlvig is to join DIY giant Kingfisher as a non-executive director.
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NewsIkea: VAT cut had no sales impact
Ikea, the world’s biggest furniture retailer, said last year’s VAT cut did nothing to stimulate its UK sales and that the planned rise next year will be equally insignificant.
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NewsTrade buyers circle as Habitat pursues sale
International trade buyers are circling struggling furniture retailer Habitat as its owner considers whether to sell the business.