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A return merchandise authorization (RMA), return authorization (RA) or return goods authorization (RGA) is a part of the process of returning a product to receive a refund, replacement, or repair to which buyer and seller agree during the product's warranty period. [1] [2]
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.
On 8 August 2008, IKEA UK launched a virtual mobile phone network called IKEA Family Mobile, which ran on T-Mobile. [135] At launch it was the cheapest pay-as-you-go network in the UK. [136] [137] In June 2015 the network announced that its services would cease to operate from 31 August 2015. [138]
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 group's Ingka Centres division has developed several shopping centres in which IKEA is the anchor tenant, including the MEGA malls in Russia. Beginning in 2020, the division has acquired existing complexes which will be renovated to include urban IKEA locations, including Kings Mall in London, 6x6 in San Francisco, and the retail podium of the Aura condominium towers in Toronto.
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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]
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 ]