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2. Ready-to-assemble furniture - Wikipedia

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   An unassembled IKEA flat-pack stool. Ready-to-assemble furniture (RTA), also known as knock-down furniture (KD), flat-pack furniture, or kit furniture, is a form of furniture that requires customer assembly. The separate components are packed for sale in cartons which also contain assembly instructions and sometimes hardware.

3. IKEA - Wikipedia

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   IKEA Concept Centre in Delft – the head office of Inter IKEA Systems B.V. which owns the IKEA trademark and concept. The net profit of IKEA Group (which does not include Inter IKEA systems) in fiscal year 2009 (after paying franchise fees to Inter IKEA systems) was €2.538 billion on sales of €21.846 billion. Because INGKA Holding is owned ...

4. IKEA Billy - Wikipedia

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   The cost to IKEA of the incident was estimated to be between $6 and $7 million. [7] In 1999, IKEA replaced the lacquer coating on the white bookcase with melamine foil. [1] In 2009 Bloomberg instigated a "Billy bookcase index", as an alternative to the Big Mac index, to compare relative price levels in different countries around the world. [8] [9]

5. Inter IKEA Holding - Wikipedia

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   Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is a holding company fully owned by Inter IKEA Holding and thus Interogo Foundation. It is the company that legally owns all of the IKEA brand's intellectual property (logo, word, trademarks, etc.). [14] Inter IKEA Systems is the IKEA franchisor. The company releases guides and manuals of various parts of the IKEA brand.

6. Framing (construction) - Wikipedia

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   Robinson's system called for standard 2×4 lumber, nailed together to form a sturdy, light skeleton. Builders were reluctant to adopt the new technology; however, by the 1880s, some form of 2×4 framing was standard. [25] Alternatively, a precursor to the balloon frame may have been used by the French in Missouri as much as 31 years earlier. [17]

7. Gridshell - Wikipedia

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   The steel gridshell by Vladimir Shukhov (during construction), Vyksa near Nizhny Novgorod, 1897 Multihalle in Mannheim, a wooden gridshell structure designed by Frei Otto Interior of the gridshell Savill Building Solidays Forum: a 350 m 2 glassfibre composite material elastic gridshell, Paris, France, 2011 Ephemeral Cathedral: a 400 m 2 glassfibre composite material elastic gridshell, Créteil ...

8. Cougar (MRAP) - Wikipedia

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   The Cougar is a mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) and infantry mobility vehicle structured to be resistant to landmines and improvised munitions.. It is a family of armored vehicles produced by Force Protection Inc, which manufactures ballistic and mine-protected vehicles.

9. Stichting INGKA Foundation - Wikipedia

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   The foundation owns the private Dutch company INGKA Holding, based in Leiden, which is the holding company that controls 372 of the 432 outlets of IKEA. [6]In an explanation of IKEA's complex corporate structure, Ingvar Kamprad stated to the authors of a Swedish documentary that tax efficiency was "a natural part of the company's low-cost culture". [2]