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The 2014 novel The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by French author Romain Puertolas features a trip to an IKEA store in Paris, France. [267] The 2014 horror comedy novel Horrorstör is set in a haunted store called ORSK, modelled on IKEA, and the novel is designed to look like the IKEA catalogue. [268]
This is a timeline of Swedish history, ... Furniture company IKEA is founded by Ingvar Kamprad: 1954: 29 October: Sweden conducts its first television broadcast 1957:
The IKEA Museum is a museum located in Älmhult, Sweden, that opened to the public on June 30, 2016. [1] It presents the history of the Swedish furnishing company IKEA . [ 2 ] It replaced IKEA Through the Ages (located in the Corporate Culture Center 'Tillsammans'), a smaller 800 m 2 exhibition that showed 20 different room settings with IKEA ...
The acronym IKEA is made up of the initials of his name (Ingvar Kamprad) plus those of Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnaryd where he was raised. [ 8 ] [ 11 ] Between the founding of IKEA and his board resignation in 1946, Kamprad was an author.
IKEA opened first store in India with 37,000 m 2 (400,000 sq ft) in Hyderabad on 9 August 2018. [106] IKEA opened its second store in Navi Mumbai on 18 December 2020, [107] and its third outlet and first smaller format "city-store" in Worli, Mumbai on 9 December 2021. [108] IKEA plans to have 30 stores by 2028.
In 2014, IKEA hired 24-hour security to protect the goat and it was not damaged. [96] In 2015, an electrical fault on its lights caused it to burn down on its own. [ 97 ] In 2016, the goat was set alight by three arsonists who were later arrested and sentenced to pay a fine of ISK 150,000 (US$1,241.6) each.
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The IKEA Catalogue (US spelling: IKEA Catalog; Swedish: Ikea-katalogen) was a catalogue published annually by the Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA. First published in Swedish in 1951, [ 1 ] the catalogue was considered to be the main marketing tool of the company and, as of 2004, consumed 70% of its annual marketing budget. [ 2 ]