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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.
As a franchisee, the Ingka Group pays 3% of royalties to Inter IKEA Systems. [21] [20] Inter IKEA Systems collected €631 million of franchise fees in 2004 but reported pre-tax profits of only €225 million in 2004. One of the major pre-tax expenses that Inter IKEA systems reported was €590 million of "other operating charges".
Rödeby is a locality situated in Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 3,402 inhabitants as of 2010. [1] It is located about 12 kilometers north of Karlskrona . Notable things found in Rödeby are Rödeby kyrka [ sv ] , Rödebyskolan ("The Rödeby School") and the local football team Rödeby AIF [ sv ] .
10 First IKEA outside Scandinavia. 5 Japan: 1974 Nagoya: 13 First IKEA outside of Europe. IKEA withdrew from the market in 1987 because of stagnant sales, [9] then returned in 2006 by opening a store in Funabashi, Chiba under a distribution partnership with the Mitsubishi Corporation. [10] [11] 6 Germany: 1974 Eching [12] (near Munich) 54
His business was mostly mail order. [10] 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.