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IKEA (/ aɪ ˈ k iː ə / eye-KEE-ə, Swedish:), is a multinational conglomerate founded in Sweden [6] [7] that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, household goods, and various related services.
IKEA plans to have six stores in the country by 2020, four in the Seoul Capital Area, one in Daejeon and one in Busan. [100] The third store opened in Giheung-gu, Yongin on December 12, 2019. [101] The fourth store opened in Gijang County, Busan on February 13, 2020, making the first IKEA store located outside of the Seoul Capital Area. [102 ...
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.
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.
English: This is a PDF version of the Introduction to Sociology Wikibook This file was created with MediaWiki to LaTeX . The LaTeX source code is attached to the PDF file (see imprint).
The sociology of culture grew from the intersection between sociology, as shaped by early theorists like Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, and anthropology where researchers pioneered ethnographic strategies for describing and analyzing a variety of cultures around the world. Part of the legacy of the early development of the field is still felt in ...
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 .
7% of the wood that becomes IKEA furniture comes from Belarus, where the state owns all of the country's forests. IKEA has been accused of financing President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko's repression against political opponents, with Anna Sundström, Secretary-General of the Olof Palme International Center, arguing that the money ...