IKEA
The name IKEA is a puzzle assembled from four pieces. The first two letters are the initials of Ingvar Kamprad. The E stands for Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born. The A stands for Agunnaryd, his hometown in Småland, in southern Sweden.
Kamprad was only 17 in 1943 when he founded IKEA as a mail-order sales business. Today the group designs and sells household goods and related services around the world.
How did a teenager's mail-order venture grow into a giant of furniture retail? Why do people value a piece of furniture more after they have assembled it themselves? And who actually owns a company arranged as a web of foundations and corporations spread across several countries?
Blue buildings trimmed in yellow, the colours of Sweden's national flag, are the usual signature of an IKEA store. Inside, a one-way path leads shoppers counter-clockwise along what the company calls the long natural way. The idea is that visitors see the entire store, rather than marching straight to one department as they would in a conventional shop. Shortcuts to other parts of the showroom are often available.
A showroom living room might hold a sofa, a television, a bookcase and a dining table, softened with plants, cushions, rugs, lamps, plates, glasses and cutlery. Rooms follow the order of a real home: living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bedrooms and children's rooms. Shoppers note what they like, then collect a cart and enter the open-shelf Market Hall for smaller items. The last stop is the self-service warehouse, where the showroom pieces wait in flat-pack form. Payment happens at the cash registers.
Two levels is the standard arrangement, with the showroom upstairs and the Market Hall and warehouse below. Single-level stores appear mostly where land costs less than building a second floor. Some stores keep extra stock in separate warehouses, and others use machine-controlled silos so large quantities can be reached throughout the selling day. Certain items, such as particular sofa colours, are not stocked in the store at all and travel from a warehouse to the customer's home or to the store.
Just before the registers, most stores keep a bargain corner, recently rebranded as re-shop and re-use. Returned, damaged and formerly displayed products are sold there at a significant discount. In March 2022 the corner took on an unusual role. IKEA left the Russian market so quickly that its warehouses held surplus goods earmarked for that country, and a number of stores elsewhere sold them at a discount near the bargain corner.
The cafe that opened beside the first Älmhult store grew into a full restaurant in 1960. Restaurants now operate in 38 countries, and the menu bends to local taste. Shoppers find shawarma in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, poutine in Canada, macarons in France and gelato in Italy. In Indonesia the Swedish meatball recipe is altered to meet halal requirements. Stores in Israel sell kosher food under rabbinical supervision, with separate dairy and meat areas. In many places the restaurant opens before the rest of the store and serves breakfast. By 2019, food accounted for 5% of IKEA's sales.
Plant-based meatballs made from potatoes, apples, pea protein and oats are now sold in every store. Journalist Avery Yale Kamila reports that testing began in 2014 and the launch followed in 2015, with vegan hot dogs tested from 2018.
Every store also has a children's play area named Småland. The word means small lands in Swedish, and it is also the province where Kamprad was born. Parents leave children at one gate and collect them at another entrance. Some stores give parents free pagers so staff can call them back early. Others use announcements over the public address system or phone calls. The largest Småland play area is in the Navi Mumbai store in India.
A bookcase shipped fully built carries an enormous amount of empty space, and that observation sits at the heart of IKEA's flat-pack approach. The company claims that letting customers assemble furniture cuts costs and packaging, because the boxes do not ship air. Flat packs are also easier for European customers to carry on public transport.
Kamprad calls the company's integrated approach to manufacturing and design democratic design. IKEA contends that it has pioneered sustainable thinking about mass consumer culture. It points to economies of scale and to manufacturing methods that hold down costs and resource use. One example is the extensive use of medium-density fibreboard, also called particle board.
Three pieces of furniture stand out. The Poäng armchair, the Billy bookcase and the Klippan sofa have each sold by the tens of millions since the late 1970s and early 1980s. A partnership with LEGO also produced a range of simple storage solutions for children and adults.
Social scientists have a name for the pleasure of building your own furniture, and it is the IKEA effect. Customers value an item more when they helped create it, compared with an identical pre-assembled one. The effect also applies to other kits, LEGO among them. It appears only after construction. Beforehand, people believe they would pay more for the pre-assembled version. Possible explanations include the enjoyment of assembly and a growing sense of competence after a successful build. If the item is taken apart again, or the builder fails to finish it, the added value disappears.
A group calling itself IKEA Hackers takes the idea further. Because the products are notably easy to modify, these DIY fans use them to make new and unique items. They have formed a community around the projects, and the company's sales benefit as well.
Ingvar Kamprad was dyslexic, and that fact shaped what a sofa is called. He found that proper names and words were easier to identify and remember than long product codes. As a result, IKEA products carry one-word names, occasionally two, mostly Swedish or otherwise Scandinavian in origin.
A special naming system sorts products by geography. Sofas and coffee tables take the names of places in Sweden. Textiles borrow from Denmark, and beds from Norway. Lamps are named after seas and lakes, while outdoor furniture gets the names of islands.
The system has produced some famous stumbles. A computer desk called jerker was discontinued in 2013. A foliar plant spray named fukta, which means moisten, raised eyebrows among English speakers. So did a workbench called fartfull, meaning speedy, and a table called lyckhem, pronounced roughly as look-em, which means bliss or a happy home. Often the confusion comes from readers who do not know how Swedish works. Even so, some names have been changed or withdrawn in certain markets.
Real places have suffered too. A toilet brush carries the name of the lake Bolmen, and a rubbish bin is named after the Norwegian village of Tofte. In November 2021 VisitSweden.com answered with a jocular campaign called Discover the Originals. It invited tourists to visit the locations that had received such unfortunate associations.
In 2013 a soft toy called Lufsig created a storm and sold out in Hong Kong and southern China, because it had been misnamed in Chinese.
On the 28th of October 1958, the first IKEA store opened in Älmhult, in Småland, under the name Möbel-IKÉA, where möbel means furniture in Swedish. Furniture itself had joined the mail-order range only five years after the founding. Älmhult remains the operational hub, home to product development, design, range management, global supply chain and sourcing, and the IKEA Museum.
Norway received a store in 1963, and Denmark followed in 1969. Switzerland came in 1973 as the first store outside Scandinavia. West Germany and Japan followed in 1974. Australia and Hong Kong opened in 1975, Canada in 1976, and Singapore, Spain and the Netherlands in 1978. The 1980s brought France in 1981, Belgium in 1984, the United States in 1985, the United Kingdom in 1987 and Italy in 1989.
Today 504 stores operate in 61 countries and 2 territories, and IKEA has been the world's largest furniture retailer since 2008. In fiscal year 2024 the company sold goods worth €45.1 billion. Germany and the United States, with 55 stores each, are the biggest markets, and three of the American stores are in Puerto Rico. The website lists about 12,000 products and drew over 4.6 billion visits in fiscal year 2024.
Japan in 1974 offered an early lesson in how not to expand. IKEA entered through a franchise with a local partner and withdrew in failure in 1986, even though Japan was then the second-largest economy in the world. The store layout had not been adapted to Japanese shoppers. Japanese households had no culture of assembling furniture, and many early customers had no way to haul flat packs to their small apartments. Before re-entering in 2006, management ran extensive local research. The new room displays resembled real Japanese apartments, including one for a typical Japanese teenage boy who likes baseball and computer games.
China called for a different adjustment. Stores there sit closer to public transport, because so many customers do not own cars. Some appear in downtown shopping centres as a mini-IKEA instead of in the usual suburban or airport locations. IKEA also tried pop-up stores on social media platforms, a first for the company, to reach new customers.
Shrinking the box became a strategy elsewhere. In Hong Kong, where shop space is limited and costly, IKEA opened four stores, all in multi-storey commercial buildings. In 2020 a store at Al Wahda Mall in Abu Dhabi opened at 2137 square metres, one of the smallest to date. The Harajuku store in Tokyo, opened the same year, spans seven floors and 2500 square metres and houses the chain's first and only konbini concept. In 2021 a Bali store called the Customer Meeting Point opened in a former Giant hypermarket. At 1200 square metres, it is the smallest so far. On the 1st of May 2025, a store opened in the former Topshop flagship at 214 Oxford Street in central London.
Other frontiers opened too. The Dominican Republic became the first Latin American market in February 2010, and a Mexico City store followed on the 8th of April 2021. In August 2018 the first Indian store opened in Hyderabad, and stores now stand in Bengaluru and Mumbai. In November 2021 the largest IKEA in the world opened at the Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City, Metro Manila, measuring 65000 square metres.
The closure of all 17 Russian stores was announced in March 2022, after the invasion of Ukraine. By October of that year, about 10,000 Russian employees had been laid off. In September 2023 Russia's Gazprombank bought the MEGA shopping centre chain that IKEA had owned and operated there. COVID-19 lockdowns also took a toll. The Guiyang store closed in April 2022, and a Shanghai store closed by July 2022.
The pandemic also helped end a long tradition. The annual catalogue, first published in Swedish in 1951, was once the company's main marketing tool and took up 70% of its marketing budget. At its peak in 2016, 200 million copies in 32 languages reached more than 50 markets. In December 2020 IKEA announced that both print and digital versions would stop, with the 2021 edition as the last, after 70 years in print.
South America finally gained a store on the 10th of August 2022, when IKEA opened in Chile. A second South American store followed in September 2023 in Bogotá, Colombia.
The TRÅDFRI smart lighting kit, launched as IKEA moved into the smart home in 2016, was one of the first signs of a new direction. A partnership with Philips Hue followed, and wireless charging furniture built Qi charging into everyday pieces. In December 2017 a collaboration with Sonos was announced to build speaker technology into furniture. The first results, sold as SYMFONISK, launched in August 2019 as two wireless speakers, one that doubled as a lamp and one shaped like a bookshelf speaker.
That partnership ended in January 2026, when IKEA and Sonos agreed that no new products would be co-developed. Bluetooth speakers named Vappeby, Solskydd and Kallsup replaced the line. They lack AirPlay 2 and WiFi, and critics found their sound quality lower. In November 2025 IKEA announced a range of smart devices built to work with Matter, to be released in stages from December 2025 until mid-2026. A hub called Dirigera takes the place of the Trådfri gateway.
On the 12th of September 2017, IKEA announced IKEA Place, an augmented reality app that shows products at true scale in a real room. It followed Apple's release of its ARKit technology. In March 2021 IKEA Studio, built with Apple, let customers design full-scale rooms on an iPhone. IKEA Kreativ arrived in June 2022 and uses technology from Geomagical Labs, a company that Ingka Group acquired in April 2020. As of 2024, Kreativ was available in more than 29 IKEA markets.
BoKlok, launched in Sweden in 1996 as a joint venture with Skanska, extends flat packs to houses and apartments. The aim is to lower the cost of a first-time buyer's home. It now operates in the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom, with confirmed English sites including London, Ashton-under-Lyne, Leeds, Gateshead, Warrington, Bristol and Liverpool.
At the end of September 2013, IKEA announced that solar panel kits for houses would be sold at 17 UK stores by mid-2014. A pilot at the Lakeside store had sold almost one photovoltaic system a day. The panels came from Solibro, a German subsidiary of the Chinese company Hanergy. IKEA ended that contract in November 2015 and began working with Solarcentury in April 2016.
In April 2019 the company began test marketing furniture rental. Inexpensive IKEA products were widely viewed as disposable, and younger buyers in particular wanted to reduce their environmental impact. Jesper Brodin, chief executive of Ingka Group, said: "climate change and unsustainable consumption are among the biggest challenges we face in society". The company planned to test rental in all 30 markets by 2020. In 2020 a Buy Back Friday campaign offered a new life for old furniture instead of Black Friday sales. In August 2024 a trial online marketplace called IKEA Preowned ran until December, centred on Oslo and Madrid.
Some ventures were stranger. On the 8th of August 2008, IKEA UK launched IKEA Family Mobile, a virtual phone network on T-Mobile that was the cheapest pay-as-you-go option at launch. It stopped operating on the 31st of August 2015. In mid-August 2012 the company announced a chain of 100 economy hotels in Europe, but by the 30th of April 2018 it owned only one, the IKEA Hotell in Älmhult. A planned hotel in the historic Pirelli Building in New Haven, Connecticut, with 165 rooms, never opened. The building was sold to developer Becker + Becker for $1.2 million and now operates as Hotel Marcel.
From 2016 to 2018 IKEA sold a commuter bicycle with a belt drive, the Sladda. In September 2017 it announced the purchase of TaskRabbit, which operates as an independent company. In March 2020 a side table called SÄVA arrived in packaging resembling a pizza box, a joint venture with Pizza Hut Hong Kong. The instructions suggested ordering a Swedish meatball pizza. In July 2020 the Harajuku concept store launched IKEA's first apparel line.
In 2016 IKEA Canada worked with the Setsuné Indigenous Fashion Incubator, co-founded by Sage Paul, on a collection called ÅTERSTÄLLA. Its name means to restore, heal or redecorate, and it was made entirely from salvaged IKEA textiles.
Two companies based in the Netherlands sit at the centre of IKEA's ownership, and they do different jobs. Ingka Holding B.V. owns the Ingka Group, which handles the centres, retail, customer fulfilment and other services around IKEA products. The brand itself belongs to Inter IKEA Systems B.V. IKEA stores operate under franchise from that company, which manages branding, design, manufacturing and supply. Ingka Group runs the majority of stores as a franchisee and pays royalties of 3%. Some stores belong to independent franchises.
Inter IKEA Systems is owned by Inter IKEA Holding B.V., which in turn belongs to the Interogo Foundation in Liechtenstein. Inter IKEA Holding was formerly registered in Luxembourg as Inter IKEA Holding SA. In 2016, Ingka Holding sold its design, manufacturing and logistics subsidiaries to Inter IKEA Holding.
The structure allowed Kamprad to keep tight control. The five-person executive committee of the Ingka Foundation was chaired by Kamprad. It appoints the board of Ingka Holding, approves changes to its bylaws and can preempt new share issues. If a member quits or dies, the other four choose a replacement. The bylaws also require the foundation to keep operating the group and allow shares to be sold only to another foundation with the same objectives.
In June 2013, at 87, Kamprad resigned from the board of Inter IKEA Holding SA. His youngest son, Mathias Kamprad, replaced Per Ludvigsson as chairman. Kamprad explained: "I see this as a good time for me to leave the board of Inter IKEA Group. By that we are also taking another step in the generation shift that has been ongoing for some years." Mathias and his two older brothers, who also hold leadership roles, work on the overall vision and long-term strategy.
The figures show why the arrangement draws attention. In fiscal year 2009 IKEA Group earned a net profit of €2.538 billion on sales of €21.846 billion. Because Ingka Holding is owned by a non-profit foundation, none of that profit is taxed. The Kamprad family cannot take the profit directly, but it collects a portion through franchise payments.
The numbers for Inter IKEA Systems raised questions. In 2004 it collected €631 million in franchise fees but reported pre-tax profits of only €225 million. One major expense was €590 million of other operating charges, which IKEA has refused to explain. Inter IKEA Systems appears to make large payments to I.I. Holding, which The Economist said is almost certain to be controlled by the Kamprad family. I.I. Holding made a profit of €328 million that year. Together, the Inter IKEA group and I.I. Holding reported combined profits of €553 million and paid €19 million in taxes, about 3.5 percent.
Critics have pressed the point. The EU noted in 2017 that the company had avoided millions of euros in taxes through arrangements involving the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. The Swiss non-profit Public Eye nominated IKEA for one of its awards for corporate irresponsibility in 2007. In February 2016 the Greens group in the European Parliament issued a report titled IKEA: Flat Pack Tax Avoidance. It was sent to Commissioners Pierre Moscovici and Margrethe Vestager.
In 2009 Sweden's largest television station, SVT, revealed that the three per cent collected from each store does not go to a charitable foundation in the Netherlands, as IKEA had said. Instead it reaches Interogo, which has amassed $12 billion and is controlled by the Kamprad family.
During the 1980s, according to declassified files, Romania's secret police, the Securitate, received six-figure payments from IKEA. The company agreed to overcharge for products made in Romania, and some of the overpayment went into an account controlled by the Securitate.
A second revelation came from East Germany. In the 1980s IKEA cut costs by using state-owned factories there, where political prisoners worked alongside criminals. The company commissioned a report from Ernst & Young after former prisoners sought compensation. In November 2012 IKEA admitted it had been aware of the possibility of forced labour and had failed to exercise enough control to avoid it. A summary of the report was released on the 16th of November 2012. In 2018 the company was accused of union busting when employees sought to organize.
The INGKA Foundation's net worth once exceeded that of the Gates Foundation, though most of the group's profit is spent on investment. IKEA backs international charitable causes, often with UNICEF. After the 2005 Kashmir earthquake it gave 500,000 blankets, and it provided furniture for over 100 bridge schools in Liberia. In 2013 it donated more than $2.6 million for Typhoon Haiyan relief in the Philippines. On the 3rd of March 2022 it announced €20 million for UNHCR to help Ukrainians, and it later gave €10 million to Doctors Without Borders for Syria after the 2023 earthquake.
The IKEA Social Initiative was formed in September 2005 under Marianne Barner. On the 23rd of February 2009, UNICEF announced it had become the agency's largest corporate partner, with commitments above US$180 million. Even so, The Economist called IKEA's giving meagre, barely a rounding error in the foundation's assets.
Formaldehyde scandals in the early 1980s and again in 1992 pushed the company toward environmental reform. In 1990 it invited Karl-Henrik Robèrt, founder of the Natural Step, to address its board. IKEA adopted the Natural Step framework, and an Environmental Action Plan followed in 1992. Measures included replacing PVC, minimizing formaldehyde and building an OGLA chair from 100% post-consumer plastic waste. Air-inflatable furniture cut transport weight and volume to about 15% of conventional furniture. In 2000 IKEA introduced a supplier code of conduct, and about 60 auditors now perform hundreds of supplier audits yearly.
Wood is the most contested subject. IKEA accounts for about 1% of world commercial-product wood use, which makes it the largest individual user. It claims that 99.5% of its wood is recycled or Forest Stewardship Council certified. Corporate Europe Observatory and Greenpeace have accused it of greenwashing and criticized its logging practices in Russian, Romanian and Ukrainian forests. The group owns about 136,000 acres of forest in the United States and about 450,000 acres in Europe. It is reported to have been Romania's largest private landowner since 2015. In January 2021 Ingka Investments bought about 4,386 hectares near the Altamaha River Basin in Georgia, to restore longleaf pine forest and protect the gopher tortoise.
In 2011 the company found that almost half of its pine and spruce use went into pallets. It began moving to paper pallets and a plastic system called OptiLedge. Since March 2013 it has stopped providing plastic bags to customers. From 2016 it has sold only energy-efficient LED bulbs and lamps.
In August 2008 IKEA created IKEA GreenTech, a €50 million venture capital fund based in Lund. It owns the 165 MW Cameron Wind farm in Texas and a 42 MW coastal wind farm in Finland. In September 2019 it announced a $2.8 billion investment in renewable energy infrastructure, aiming to make its entire supply chain climate positive by 2030.
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Common questions
Who founded IKEA and when?
Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943, when he was 17, as a mail-order sales business. He began reselling furniture five years later.
What does the name IKEA stand for?
IKEA is an acronym built from the initials of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd (the family farm where he was born) and Agunnaryd (his hometown in Småland, Sweden).
When and where did the first IKEA store open?
The first IKEA store opened in Älmhult, Småland, Sweden, on the 28th of October 1958 under the name Möbel-IKÉA. Älmhult is still the company's operational hub and home to the IKEA Museum.
How many IKEA stores are there and where are the biggest markets?
IKEA operates 504 stores in 61 countries and 2 territories. Germany and the United States are the biggest markets, with 55 stores each.
How are IKEA products named?
IKEA uses a naming system based mostly on Scandinavian words and places, because founder Ingvar Kamprad was dyslexic and found names easier to remember than codes. Sofas take Swedish place names, textiles Danish ones, beds Norwegian ones, lamps sea and lake names, and outdoor furniture island names.
Who owns IKEA?
IKEA is owned through a set of corporations and foundations. Ingka Holding B.V. owns the Ingka Group, which runs most stores, while Inter IKEA Systems B.V. owns the brand and is held through the Interogo Foundation in Liechtenstein.
What is the IKEA effect?
The IKEA effect is the tendency of customers to value an item more when they helped create it than an identical pre-assembled one. It appears only after construction and is lost if the item is taken apart or the build fails.
Why did IKEA leave Russia?
IKEA announced in March 2022 that it would close all 17 of its Russian stores after the invasion of Ukraine. About 10,000 Russian employees had been laid off by October 2022.
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- 193IKEA Indonesia Resmi Bangun Konsep Toko Baru di Mall Taman Anggrek28 October 2021
- 196NewsIKEA is coming to London. Here’s whenAshley Hyshka — 9 April 2026
- 199NewsIkea ForeverAmanda Fortini — 12 September 2016
- 200IKEA x LEGO Collaboration Releases Storage Boxes That Are Also ToysSonya Harris — 1 September 2020
- 201JournalThe IKEA effect: When labor leads to loveMichael I. Norton et al. — July 2012
- 202JournalBolstering and restoring feelings of competence via the IKEA effectDaniel Mochon et al. — December 2012
- 203JournalParticipatory Building Communities and the Production of Design KnowledgeSamuel Dodd — 2 January 2017
- 204The secret weapon your home's been missing – make it feel bespoke with the IKEA hack tips and tricks I swear byNatalie Jahangiry — 2026-04-16
- 205The Ikea-hacking companies you need to know aboutCharlotte McCaughan-Hawes — 2019-07-16
- 206Who is IKEA? Best Furniture CompanyIkea Furnitures
- 207The IKEA DictionaryLars Petrus
- 208NewsDo you speak Ikea?Jon Henley — 4 February 2008
- 209BookIKEA. Design och identitetEva Atle Bjarnestam — drängahuset Handelsbolag — 2009
- 210News'Fartfull' workbench, 'Jerker' desk: Is Ikea hiding a grin?17 August 2004
- 211Sweden reclaims Ikea product names: 'Bolmen, more than a toilet brush'Leslie Katz — CNET — 10 December 2021
- 212Lake Toiletbrush and the Curse of Ikea's Product NamesKottke.org — 20 December 2021
- 215NewsIkea's new app deletes your living room furniture so you can buy even moreMark Wilson — 2022-06-22
- 216Ikea acquires AI imaging startup Geomagical Labs to supercharge room visualisationsIngrid Lunden — 2020-04-02
- 217Ikea Launches Kreativ As An Innovative AI-Powered Interior Design PartnerOmair Pall — 2024-10-07
- 219Ikea Trådfri & Hue work together NOW!11 August 2017
- 221NewsSonos and Ikea are collaborating on sound products for the homeFitz Tepper — Oath Inc. — 6 December 2017
- 222NewsSonos Teams Up With Ikea for Smart Home AudioJanko Roettgers — 6 December 2017
- 226Ikea suger ut den sista livsgläjden ur det digitala hemmetM3 Chefredaktör — 2025-11-26
- 228IKEA lanserar 21 nya produkter för det smarta hemmet2026-05-01
- 230IKEA is about to launch an outdoor smart plug for the first time – you won't believe how cheap it isLizzie Wilmot — 2026-03-04
- 231Will IKEA discontinue SYMFONISK?2026-05-01
- 232NewsBuying a house? Pick up a flatpack at IkeaMartin Wainwright — 2 February 2005
- 233NewsIkea to sell solar panels in UK stores30 September 2013
- 234The latest appliance from IKEA: Solar power panelsLobello, Carmel — The Week Newspaper — 1 October 2013
- 236Solarcentury lands IKEA 'Solar Shops' contractLiam Stoker — 25 April 2016
- 237NewsIkea to start selling solar panels in U.K. stores25 April 2016
- 239IKEA to test furniture rental in 30 countries6 April 2019
- 241NewsShort Order: Ikea RestaurantBailey Trask
- 243NewsWhat, no meatballs? How Ikea caters to different global tastes9 August 2018
- 245IKEA Opens First Showroom in India Today9 August 2018
- 246Badatz Beit Yosef Restaurant ListingBadatz.com
- 247Courting ultra-Orthodox consumers, IKEA turns to kosher inspirationIra Tolchin Immergluck — December 2019
- 249NewsIkea redesigns restaurants as shoppers clamor for foodMiriam Valverde — April 28, 2016
- 250NewsIKEA to start serving salad grown at its stores4 April 2019
- 251Ikea's new meatless meatballs are coming to Europe in August27 February 2020
- 253Chipotle, IKEA mainstreaming meatless mealsAvery Yale Kamila — 25 June 2014
- 254Vegetarian hot dogs might be coming to IkeaJess Edwards — 19 February 2018
- 255Ikea Shelves Meat for ChristmasJames Hansen — 25 October 2019
- 256NewsA Cheap Date, With Child Care by IkeaMichelle Higgins — 10 June 2009
- 257NewsIKEA in Navi Mumbai: IKEA opens store in Navi MumbaiB. B. Nayak — 18 December 2020
- 258Ikea Tests Appetite for Secondhand Furniture With 'Preowned' MarketplacePYMNTS — 2024-08-26
- 261Ikea launches ready-made mobile phone serviceDan Milmo — 4 August 2014
- 262T-Mobile signs Ikea MVNO4 August 2008
- 265NewsIKEA moves into consumer electronics with China ventureAnna Ringstrom — 17 April 2012
- 266NewsIKEA to sell TVs integrated in its furnitureLouise Nordstom — 17 April 2012
- 267NewsIKEA to launch chain of budget hotels in Europe16 August 2012
- 268NewsIs IKEA about to open its first hotel outside of Sweden?30 April 2018
- 269NewsPirelli Hotel Plan Survives Surprise Attack15 November 2018
- 270360 State Builder Buys IKEA Hotel Site6 January 2020
- 273Rest In Peace, Ikea BikeAndrew Small — 5 June 2018
- 274NewsNo assembly required? Ikea to buy services site TaskRabbit28 September 2017
- 275NewsIKEA and Pizza Hut Collabed to Make a Table Inspired by the Stands in Pizza BoxesKelly Allen — 11 March 2020
- 276NewsIkea and Pizza Hut team up to create three-legged table that looks just like the 'saver' in your pizza box and meatball pizzaJessica Lindsay — 18 March 2020
- 277IKEA Acquires Geomagical Labs: Top Takeaways For Retailers And StartupsKashyap Kompella
- 279NewsIkea is releasing its first-ever apparel line in HarajukuEmma Steen — 21 July 2020
- 280NewsIKEA malls business to invest around $1.2 bln in India – executiveShilpa Jamkhandikar et al. — 8 December 2021
- 281Ikea Canada partners with Indigenous Fashion IncubatorJennifer Braun — 6 June 2017
- 282MagazineIKEA Garlic Presses2026
- 283NewsFlat-pack accounting11 May 2006
- 284Our owner1 September 2016
- 286Ingvar Kamprads son bort från maktposition17 October 2016
- 287NewsIKEA's new chairman likes PAX wardrobes, and that's about all we knowGina Chon — 5 June 2013
- 289NewsEU investigates Ikea after Dutch deals reduce tax bill by €1bnDaniel Boffey — 2017-12-18
- 290Berne Declaration Public Eye Awards, 2007 NominationsErklärung von Bern
- 292State-of-the-art distribution center for IKEA15 June 2018
- 293NewsIkea funds went to Romanian secret police in communist eraMatei Rosca — 2014-07-04
- 296NewsIkea Admits Forced Labor Was Used in 1980sNicholas Kulish — 16 November 2012
- 298NewsUnions accuse IKEA of undermining workers' rights in three marketsAnna Ringstrom — 27 September 2018
- 301Ikea and formaldehydeunknown (2003 to 6 February 2004)
- 302Formaldehyde and other VOC'sikeafans.com — February 1998
- 303NewsEco Etiquette: Should I Freak Out About Formaldehyde In Baby Furniture?Jennifer Grayson — 26 January 2011
- 304See Bartlett, Dessain, Sjöman (2006) – Ikea's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labour (A) in Harvard Business School
- 306IKEA Bikes (no, they're not made of plywood)Sherwood Stranieri — 17 July 2008
- 307Unveiling the Elegance: Transform Your Space with IKEA Bedroom Furniture Setsadmin — 2023-11-21
- 311Ikea Sets its Sights on the SunFuturethinktank.com (futurethink's innovation weblog) — 7 August 2008
- 312IKEA GreenTechGreen VC — 10 August 2008
- 313IKEA building its own personal wind farmCNET — 17 February 2011
- 315NewsSea change: Gulf Coast wind farms become vital to Texas energy mixRyan Maye Handy — 27 July 2017
- 316Ajos vindpark överlämnad till kund6 October 2017
- 317IKEA is investing $2.8billion in renewable energy infrastructureAnne Quito — 21 September 2019
- 318Are we being fooled by IKEA’s promise of a greener future?15 February 2024
- 321MagazineIkea's Race for the Last of Europe's Old-Growth ForestAlexander Sammon et al. — 16 February 2022
- 322Timber from unsustainable logging allegedly being sold in EU as ethicalHarvey — 23 June 2020
- 323NewsIkea sold children's furniture 'made of illegally-logged Russian wood'Jane Dalton
- 324IKEA: COP19's last minute guest to the corporate party13 November 2013
- 326Destruction: Certified2021
- 327NewsIkea acquires 42,000 acres of forestland in East TexasPaul Takahashi — 22 November 2019
- 328NewsIkea bought 11,000 acres of forest in Georgia to protect it from developmentAlaa Elassar — 31 January 2021
- 331IKEA Phases Out Wood PalletsPackaging Revolution — 3 November 2011
- 332The OptiLedge Offers Efficiencies for International ShipmentsPackaging Revolution — 8 December 2011
- 333OptiLedgeInter IKEA Systems B.V. — 2012
- 335Banverket – press releaseCision Wire — 29 June 2001
- 336Ikea becomes first retailer to install electric vehicle rapid chargers at all UK storesFiona Briggs — Retail Times
- 337IKEA promises rapid rollout of electric car chargersJames Murray — Business Green — 12 November 2013
- 339Foundation Fact SheetBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- 342Plant TreesIKEA — 12 June 2006
- 344Google transforms Poland office into help center for Ukrainian refugeesAmiah Taylor — Fortune — 7 March 2022
- 345BookSwedish Company IKEA Is Latest Global Brand to Donate to Ukrainian ReliefJustin Klawans — Newsweek — 3 March 2022
- 346NewsFundraisers for Syria, Turkey earthquake try to deliver aidThalia Beaty — 11 February 2023
- 348UNICEF's corporate partnershipsUnicef.org
- 356Ikea Foundation gives UNHCR US$62million for Somali refugees in Kenya UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency (Thailand)UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency (Thailand) — UNHCR — 2 September 2011
- 357IKEA History
- 359IKEA FAQ
- 362NewsIKEA turns the page on catalogue after seven decadesAnna Ringstrom — 7 December 2020
- 363Ikea to introduce UK magazine in FebruaryDaniel Farey-Jones
- 364NewsIkea's New App Flaunts What You'll Love Most About ARArielle Pardes — 20 September 2017
- 365NewsApple teases the future of augmented reality appsJack Regan — 29 August 2017
- 366Dining Room Table Ikea advertisementAdRespect Advertising Education Program — 1994
- 367Redecorate Your Life IKEA advertisementAdRespect Advertising Education Program — 1999
- 369Archive: 2003 Winners, London International Awards2008.liaawards.com
- 370Archive: 2003 Winners, ANDY AwardsAndyawards.com
- 372IKEA в метроmetkere.com
- 379Someone created a Twitter account of the IKEA shark going about life and it's adorableMae Yen Yap — 20 January 2020
- 380People Around the world are obsessed with this Plush Shark from IKEA26 October 2018
- 383VideoNANOWAR OF STEEL - Valhalleluja (ft. Angus McFife from Gloryhammer) Napalm RecordsNapalm Records — 2019-12-13
- 384Kamprads djärva satsning gick hemStellan Björk — 2020-04-17
- 385NewsEight surprising facts about 500 Days of Summer19 July 2019
- 386Virality erupts at IKEA in BurbankDan Neil — 2009-09-08
- 388MagazineFox orders pilot about an Ikea-like store selling haunted furnitureJames Hibberd — 5 August 2015
- 389Brilliant short story about being trapped in an infinite IKEARob Beschizza — 29 June 2017
- 390SCP-3008
- 391BEARS OUT OF THE BOX – Stefan Cebo – EuropeBooks23 January 2021
- 392BookBEARS OUT OF THE BOX Pocket Book – January 22, 2021Europa Ediciones — 22 January 2021
- 393IKEA