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Kallax (Meänkieli: Kalalaksi, lit. fish bay) [2] is a locality situated in Luleå Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 321 inhabitants in 2010. [1] Luleå Airport is situated near Kallax. The KALLAX shelf from IKEA is named after the village.
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]
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 IKEA's largest market. Berlin alone has four stores.
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.
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe is Romain Puertolas' debut novel, published in French as L' extraordinaire voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikéa on August 21, 2013, by Le Dilletante of Paris, France (ISBN 978-2842637767), [7] [8] and published in English (translated by Sam Taylor) on August 5, 2014, by Harvill Secker ...
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]
en – English, as shortest ISO 639 code. en-US – English as used in the United States (US is the ISO 3166‑1 country code for the United States) [2] es – Spanish, as shortest ISO 639 code. es-419 – Spanish appropriate for the Latin America and Caribbean region, using the UN M.49 region code; ISO 639‑1
French Guiana [a] is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies.Bordered by Suriname to the west and Brazil to the east and south, French Guiana covers a total area of 84,000 km 2 (32,000 sq mi) [2] [3] [7] and a land area of 83,534 km 2 (32,253 sq mi). [3]