Furniture retail giant, Ikea, has made a controversial decision to massively cut sick pay for unvaccinated staff who have been forced to self-isolate for 10 days after contact with someone who has Covid. Ikea said that the policy only affects unvaccinated workers with ‘high levels of absence’. The average pay for Ikea shopfloor staff is
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Swedish homeware giant, Ikea, has taken on Topshops’ former flagship store on Oxford Street, London, paying £378 million for the iconic retail site in a transaction due to be completed in January 2022. The new London store is scheduled to open in autumn of 2023 and follows the already planned launch of a store in
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Ingka Centres and IKEA Canada (both part of Ingka Group) have announced plans to make IKEA more accessible to Torontonians with the retailer’s first downtown store in Toronto. On March 25 Ingka Centres (the shopping centres business of Ingka Group) acquired the Aura Retail Podium at 382 Yonge Street, where IKEA Canada will open a
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As if we needed more proof that 2020 is the year of seismic shifts, Swedish furniture retail giant, IKEA, has announced that this is the last year it will publish its big catalogue. First printed in Sweden in 1951, the publication is no longer deemed necessary to the company’s marketing efforts, which are moving further
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They say that sex sells so let’s see how IKEA does with this! The Swedish furniture retailer has compiled its own interior design take on Sanskrit sex classic, the Kama Sutra, to help customers find ‘ultimate satisfaction’ when designing their bedrooms. The 44 page long e-book has plenty of titillating illustrations to help get the
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Some of the UK’s biggest retailers have pledged their support for an action plan launched by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) called Better Retail, Better World. Those already signed up to the programme include John Lewis, Kingfisher, Sainsbury’s, M&S, Dixons Carphone, Next, Boots, Aldi, Co-op, House of Fraser, Fenwick, Ikea, Lidl, Morrisons, Ocado, WHSmith, Wilko,
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