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29 unusual facts about IKEA


A213 road

The road ends at Broad Green where many people carry on straight onto the unclassified road to reach the IKEA and Ampere Way retail park area in Purley Way.

Alfragide

In the extreme south of the parish is located in the first IKEA store in Portugal as part of a major shopping areas of Lisbon.

Ampere Way tram stop

The two chimneys from the old power station still exist in the grounds of an IKEA store, and they have IKEA coloured bands near their tops.

Backpage

Companies H&M, IKEA and Barnes & Noble cancelled ads for publications owned by then-Backpage owner Village Voice Media.

Bed size

Swedish Sizes are sold in the UK; in particular they are the standard sizes supplied by IKEA.

Bedford Dunstable plant

The two 1950s factories were rented out as distribution space, to companies that included IKEA.

Birstall, West Yorkshire

At its outskirts, there is also a retail park featuring an IKEA store, Toys R Us, Next and Showcase Cinemas complex.

East Palo Alto, California

Significant gentrification occurred in East Palo Alto from around 2000, with the construction of a large shopping center named Ravenswood 101 (including a Home Depot, a Best Buy, and an IKEA store) and several upscale housing communities (intended for high-earning Silicon Valley workers).

Eastville Stadium

The stadium still held greyhound racing up until 1997, before being demolished in 1998 to make way for an IKEA superstore.

Emantras

Emantras has aligned its business across verticals and now handles K12, Higher Ed & Career College, Virtual Schools, Publishing, Enterprise & Healthcare as of now, with clients which include Pearson Education, McGraw Hill, Cengage learning, Elsevier, Lufthansa, IKEA, Grundfos, Danfoss, Infosys, Toyota, Saint Gobain etc.

Fedyakovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

MEGA, the IKEA-owned Russian mall developer, chose the site for its first mall in Nizhny Novgorod metropolitan area.

Grant McCracken

He has been a consultant for many corporations, including the Coca-Cola Company, IKEA, Chrysler, Kraft, and Kimberly Clark.

Hey, Baby, What's Wrong

Criss (James Marsden) wants to give Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) a great Valentine's Day, and the two head to an IKEA to buy a dining room table to have dinner on.

IKEA Catalogue

The IKEA Catalogue (US spelling: IKEA Catalog; Swedish: Ikea-katalogen) is a catalogue published annually by the Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA.

Mark Malkoff

He made headlines in January 2008 when he moved into an IKEA store in Paramus, New Jersey for a week as his apartment was fumigated.

Mats Sundin

Attempting to entice him to sign with the Canucks, numerous Vancouver businesses extended Swedish-centred special offers, such as a Volvo and IKEA products.

Matthew Bronfman

As one of the largest American Jewish investors in the Israeli economy, Bronfman is also the main shareholder in IKEA Israel, Israel Discount Bank and the Shufersal supermarket chain.

Met Center

In 2004, an IKEA store opened on the west end of the property, and the new American Boulevard was rerouted through the east end of the property.

Nazism in Sweden

One of the most famous Swedes with links to nazism is the founder of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad.

New Town Plaza

Levels 5 & 6: IKEA flagship store in Hong Kong, in which a restaurant serving Swedish dishes is included

North Lakes, Queensland

A cinema complex is due for completion by end 2014, as is the states first and second Costco and IKEA respectively.

Northwest Plaza

Furniture retailer IKEA had also planned to open a store at the mall, but later withdrew its plans.

Paços de Ferreira

Sometimes referred to as the Capital do Móvel (capital of furniture), owing to the predominance of this industry within its territory, the municipality is location of IKEA's industrial operations within Portugal.

Persiaran Surian, Petaling Jaya

During weekends and public holidays, the driveway becomes a main popular route to Mutiara Damansara town centre such as The Curve, Ikano Power Centre, IKEA and Cathay Cineleisure.

Purley Way

It shut down in 1984, was demolished in 1991 and an IKEA store was opened on its site.

Santpoort-Zuid

En route to Amsterdam Central, the train stops at Bloemendaal, Haarlem, Haarlem-Spaarnwoude (for IKEA), and Amsterdam Sloterdijk (change for Schiphol Airport).

The Mall at Millenia

IKEA opened adjacent to the mall on November 14, 2007.

Tikhvin

Other industrial enterprises in the town include the manufacturing of furniture for IKEA, a construction company, a wood-chemical plant (producing rosin, resin, turpentine, and other such wood-based chemicals), a meat-packing plant, a dairy plant, a bread factory, and other light enterprises.

Wheeler Ridge, California

Today, there has been modest development in the Wheeler Ridge area, most notably the IKEA Distribution Center at the foot of the pass.


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Brand blunder

A name given by IKEA's Chinese website for its stuffed wolf toy Lufsig, Lo Mo Sai (路姆西), contained a homophone of Hai (閪), a Cantonese word meaning "vagina"; the name itself could be written as Lo Mo Hai (老母閪), meaning "mother's vagina".

Center for Organizational Performance

HPO Center (registered name: Center for Organizational Performance BV) is a small management consultancy firm, originated in Hilversum, Netherlands, in December 2007 as a result of a number of round-table talks with non-profit and profit organizations, such as Unilever, ABN AMRO, IKEA and Shell Downstream, during which performance management and a scientific study into High Performance Organizations (HPOs) by Dr. André de Waal were discussed.

Fedyakovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Open in October 2006, the megamall, anchored by an IKEA store and an Auchan hypermarket, has become one the region's premier retail facilities.

Gallery 400

The speakers in 2009 have included: Paul Hatch, TEAMS Design; Pierre Dorion, Artist; Maud Lavin, Art Historian; Peter Nicholson and Tiaa Hansson-Tuntland, The Foresight Initiative and IKEA; Jonathan Shaun and Elizabeth Redmond; 3.Zero and Independent Sustainability Consultant; C.E.B. Reas, Artist; Paul Murray, Herman Miller, Inc.

Giltbrook

The village is home to the Giltbrook Retail Park which has been developed due to the presence and popularity of Ikea, Decathlon and a Next store.

IKEA effect

Official experiment results on the IKEA effect were first published by Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School, Daniel Mochon of Yale University, and Dan Ariely of Duke University in 2011.

Museum of Croydon

The museum even includes things that the local IKEA in Purley Way sold when it first opened, such as furniture and the well-known catalogues.

North Circular Road

The next traffic lights are notable for the IKEA store on the northwest side and the Neasden temple to the southeast (not visible), and the road twists fairly sharply left to cross the railway, originally in order to avoid housing and to run across more empty land past the Welsh Harp Reservoir.

Ocoee High School

The Marching Band has performed in the Cotton Bowl Music Festival, the Florida Citrus Parade, the Ikea Thanksgiving Parade, multiple Under Armour Football All-American Games that were broadcast on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), multiple Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades at Universal Studios Florida, and the New York City Veteran's Day Parade.

Privately held company

KPMG, the UK accounting firms Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, IKEA, Trafigura, J C Bamford Excavators (JCB), Lidl, Aldi, LEGO, Bosch, Rolex and Victorinox are some examples of Europe's largest privately held companies.

San Sebastián de los Reyes

Major industrial companies have branches in San Sebastián de los Reyes, including IKEA, Leroy Merlin, PC City, Selther, Carrefour, Alternate, Media Markt, Telepizza, Antena 3, and many more.

Scala, Inc

The Company's multimedia software platform powers the digital signage networks of Rabobank, IKEA, Bloomberg Television, Burger King, T-Mobile, Virgin Megastores, Disneyland Resort Paris, McDonald's, Warner Bros., Shell, Esso, Ericsson, The Life Channel, and IBC-13.

STØR

A 1992 episode of The Simpsons called "Lisa the Beauty Queen" references STØR in a parody called "SHØP" which features a STØR-style building in IKEA's colors.

Thomas Smolej

ZOOM – Children's exhibition, Österreichischer Rundfunk, Servus TV, McDonald's, Nissan, Sony, ÖAMTC, Dulcolax, Alpla, 3, T-Mobile, IKEA, Kurier (Tageszeitung), Schwarzkopf (Haarkosmetik), Schartner Bombe, NÖ-Card, Vereinigte Bühnen Wien.

Turku Ring Road

The Turku Ring Road has businessess and markets alongside, including Biltema, Ikea, the Mylly shopping mall, and several other retail parks.

Vefja

The real breakthrough for Landsteinar International was when an agreement was signed with IKEA, Baugur and Adidas in 1999 to develop a warehouse management system in Navision to be used by all these companies.