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The French branch of IKEA went on trial on 22 March 2021, for running an elaborate system to spy on staff members and job applicants by illegally using private detectives and police officers. [17] On 15 June 2021, IKEA France was found guilty of spying and ordered to pay €1.1m in fines and damages for these illegal practices.
The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created. The name refers to Swedish manufacturer and furniture retailer IKEA , which sells many items of furniture that require assembly .
After initial environmental issues like the highly publicized formaldehyde scandals in the early 1980s and 1992, [178] [179] [180] IKEA took a proactive stance on environmental issues and tried to prevent future incidents through a variety of measures. [181]
A product recall is a request from a manufacturer to return a product after the discovery of safety issues or product defects that might endanger the consumer or put the maker or seller at risk of legal action. Product recalls are one of a number of corrective actions that can be taken for products that are deemed to be unsafe.
This can result in more value being applied to an outcome than it actually has. An example of this is the IKEA effect, the tendency for people to place a disproportionately high value on objects that they partially assembled themselves, such as furniture from IKEA, regardless of the quality of the end product. [30]
One of two Russian suppliers of sausage to IKEA in Russia is found to contain horse meat despite its labelling. [119] 2013-03-08: Meat returned with green mould is cleaned, dried and resold in Polish plant to make sausages and ham. Exports to UK, Ireland, Germany and Lithuania. Three other Polish meat-processing plants were found to label horse ...
The IKEA Lack table in white. The Lack (stylized as LACK) is a table manufactured by IKEA since 1981. [1] Modifications.
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.