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IKEA

Inter IKEA Systems B.V.,[6][7] trading as IKEA (/aɪˈkiːə/ eye-KEE-ə, Swedish: [ɪˈkêːa]), is a Swedish multinational conglomerate that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad and currently legally headquartered in the Netherlands, IKEA has been the world's largest furniture retailer since 2008.[8][9][10][11][12] The brand used by the group is derived from an acronym that consists of the founder's initials, and those of Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnaryd (his hometown in Småland, southern Sweden).[13][14]

For the city in Nigeria, see Ikeja.

Trade name

IKEA

Private

Retail

28 July 1943 (1943-07-28)[1] in Sweden

Ingvar Kamprad

Leiden
,
Netherlands

462 (2023)[2]

Worldwide

Increase €44.6 billion (2021)[5]

2,246,000,000 Euro (2023) Edit this on Wikidata

1,639,000,000 Euro (2023) Edit this on Wikidata

23,001,000,000 Euro (2023) Edit this on Wikidata

219,000 (2023) Edit this on Wikidata

The group is primarily known for its modernist furniture designs, its simple approach to interior design, and its immersive shopping concept, based around a showroom of decorated room settings, in which customers can interact with the available articles onsite. In addition, the firm is known for its attention to cost control and continuous product development, notably, the ready-to-assemble model of furniture sales, and other elements which have allowed IKEA to establish lower prices than its competitors.


As of September 2023, there are 462 IKEA stores operating in 59 countries[15] and in fiscal year 2018, €38.8 billion (US$45.82 billion) worth of IKEA goods were sold.[16] For multiple reasons, including lowering taxes payable, IKEA uses a complicated corporate structure. Within this structure, all IKEA stores are operated under franchise from Inter IKEA Systems B.V. which handles branding, design, manufacturing, and supply. Another part of the IKEA group, Ingka Group, operates the majority of IKEA stores as a franchisee and pays royalties to Inter IKEA Systems B.V.[17][18] Some IKEA stores are also operated by independent franchises.[19] The IKEA website contains about 12,000 products and there were over 2.1 billion visitors to IKEA's websites in the year from September 2015 to August 2016.[20][21]

In the wake of the , IKEA Australia agreed to match dollar for dollar co-workers' donations and donated all sales of the IKEA Blue Bag to the cause.

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

After the , IKEA gave 500,000 blankets to the relief effort in the region.[200]

2005 Kashmir earthquake

IKEA has provided furniture for over 100 "bridge schools" in Liberia.

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Following the in China, IKEA Beijing sold an alligator toy for 40 yuan (US$5.83, €3.70) with all income going to the children in the earthquake struck area.

2008 Sichuan earthquake

In 2013, IKEA donated more than $2.6 million to UNICEF to help children and families affected by in the Philippines.

Typhoon Haiyan

The 1986 Swedish Jönssonligan dyker upp igen features a failed robbery of the IKEA store at Kungens Kurva by the eponymous gang.[252]

crime comedy film

The 2009 American film features the main characters flirting around the showroom of an IKEA store. It was filmed on-location at an IKEA store. One of the tracks from the film's score is entitled "Ikea" to reflect the scene.[253]

500 Days of Summer

, a 2009 comedic melodrama web series, was filmed without permission in an IKEA store.[254]

IKEA Heights

The 2014 novel The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by French author features a trip to an IKEA store in Paris, France.[255]

Romain Puertolas

The 2014 horror comedy novel is set in a haunted store called ORSK, modelled on IKEA, and the novel is designed to look like the IKEA catalogue.[256]

Horrorstör

The , an online collaborative writing project documenting fictional anomalies features an entry (numbered SCP-3008) originating in 2017 about an IKEA store which is notably bigger on the inside than its exterior implies, and from which escaping is difficult.[257][258] The interior of this store is populated by entities dressed in IKEA staff attire, resembling highly deformed, faceless humanoids, which are normally passive during the "day" (when the lights are switched on) but become aggressive during the "night" (when the lights are switched off).

SCP Foundation

A number of video games have been created based on SCP-3008.[259]

survival horror

The 2021 children's picture book Bears Out of The Box features IKEA's Fabler Bjorn doll, who is trying to venture outside the store.[261][262]

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In 2018, the company's plush toy shark "Blåhaj" was widely used in an internet meme,[248][249][250] with social media users posting humorous photos of it in their homes.[251]


The song "IKEA" was released by Jonathan Coulton on the album Smoking Monkey in 2003.


IKEA stores have been featured in many works of fiction. Some examples include:

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IKEA companies

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