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Ikea

May 2024

  • A hoarding on the building in the shape of an Ikea Frakta carrier bag

    Opening of Ikea’s Oxford Street store put back to spring 2025

    Company says latest delay at central London site bought for estimated £378m is due to water leaking into basement

February 2024

  • A portrait by Annie Leibovitz for Ikea with this work celebrating life in Berlin.

    Annie Leibovitz joins up with Ikea for ‘dream project’ about family life

    Project was ‘so powerful and emotional’, photographer says, with results showcased during Paris fashion week

December 2023

  • the ikea store at Greenwich, london

    Ikea warns Red Sea attacks could disrupt supplies and deliveries

  • Li Pamp, CEO of auction house Stockholms Auktionsverk, with Ikea items for sale

    Vintage Ikea furnishings fetch £32,000 at auction in Stockholm

November 2023

  • A worker cuts a granite slab on a construction site

    Ikea joins Bunnings in banning engineered stone products linked to silicosis

  • The Ikea-owned Livat shopping centre, in Hammersmith, London.

    Ikea owner buys Brighton shopping mall, its second in the UK

October 2023

  • Drumsheds, a new warehouse-style club venue housed in an old Ikea in Edmonton, London. The venue, which holds 15,000 people, has 608,000 square feet of space and hosts three separate dancefloors, along with a number of different bars and an outdoor space. London. Photograph by David Levene 7/10/23

    Flatpacks and floorfillers: how an Ikea became one of the world’s biggest nightclubs

    The furniture giant’s ex-London flagship is now a giant venue – boasting a Batman movie set and not a Billy bookcase in sight. Our writer hits the dancefloor on opening night to ‘chuck out his chintz’

May 2023

  • A Giretka driver at the Belgium-Netherlands border.

    Low pay, fuel fines, cramped cabs: drivers at haulier used by major retailers speak out

    Employees at Lithuanian freight operator Girteka complain of hard conditions on the road, including one who says he fell seriously ill but co-drove his truck 800 miles after emerging from hospital

March 2023

  • Ikea in Coventry

    Ikea UK makes agreement with EHRC to improve policies on sexual harassment

    Company will review processes after reports allegations not properly handled by management at store

February 2023

  • Two girls in front of flat-pack shelters sent by Ikea to earthquake-hit areas.

    Ikea Foundation sends shelters to Syria and Turkey as firms offer earthquake aid

    First relief housing units arrive in Hatay province, Amazon sends food and blankets and Allianz donates €6m

December 2022

  • Ikea store at Greenwich peninsula, south London

    Ikea UK profits fall by almost a fifth despite 12% increase in sales

    Higher energy bills, rising prices from suppliers and increased freight costs to blame, says retailer

October 2022

  • David Mitchell

    Why our furniture should last longer than our politicians

    David Mitchell
    Replacing things that aren’t broken helps push up GDP, but is absurd. Much like Tory economic policy

August 2022

  • Shanghai: Ikea shoppers flee from authorities trying to quarantine store – video

  • Customers queue outside H&M at the Metropolis shopping mall in Moscow.

    Massive queues in Moscow as shoppers take last chance to shop at H&M

July 2022

  • retail composite

    ‘Brexit to blame’: UK shoppers pay up to 50% more than those in EU

    From Zara to Ikea and Decathlon, stores charge more for same items, Guardian Money research finds

May 2022

  • Ikea store exterior

    Who pays the ‘real living wage’ in Britain – and who does not?

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    What have I learned from moving house? There are five stages of flatpack-furniture grief

    Arwa Mahdawi

April 2022

  • Yvonne Roberts

    Call that decor stylish? Great-aunt Rose might agree…

    Yvonne Roberts
  • the Ikea-owned Livat shopping centre in Hammersmith, west London.

    Ikea and H&M launch ‘ideas factory’ for local designers and creatives in London

March 2022

  • Customers queuing at Ikea Tottenham as it reopened to the public after the first Covid lockdown.

    Ikea plans to close Tottenham branch, putting 450 jobs at risk

    Retailer says it is adapting to ‘changing shopping behaviours’ and will do its best to protect jobs
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