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Guy annoys girlfriend with puns at Ikea
Her reactions to his puns are hysterical.
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Ikea Wants You To Stop Throwing Away Your Ikea Furniture
Where does an Ikea product go when it approaches the end of its useful life? Maybe Craigslist, or the annual yard sale, or—for the optimistic or guilt-ridden—a storage unit. Probably the worst option of all? The landfill. But Steve Howard, the Scandinavian company’s chief sustainability officer, believes in a future where Ikea furniture never really dies at all. Instead, it gets reincarnated.
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Ikea to use packaging made from mushrooms that will decompose in a garden within weeks
Ikea is planning to use packaging made with mushrooms as an eco-friendly replacement for polystyrene. The furniture retailer is looking at using the biodegradable mycelium “fungi packaging” as part of its efforts to reduce waste and increase recycling, Joanna Yarrow, head of sustainability for Ikea in the U.K., said.
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The Weird Economics Of Ikea
Ikea is a behemoth. The home furnishing company uses 1 percent of the planet’s lumber, it says, and the 530 million cubic feet of wood used to make Ikea furniture each year pulls with its own kind of twisted gravity. For many, a sojourn to the enormous blue-and-yellow store winds up defining the space in which they sit, cook, eat and sleep. All that wood is turned into furniture that tries to bring a spare, modern aesthetic to the masses. “We’re talking about democratizing design,” Marty Marston, a product public relations manager at Ikea, told me.
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Ikea Lovingly Turned These 10 Children's Drawings Into Actual Plush Toys Winning designs will raise money for kids' charities By David Griner
Tо hеlр create this уеаr'ѕ lіnеuр оf Sоft Tоуѕ for Eduсаtіоn, global retailer Ikеа turnеd tо сrауоn-wіеldіng kids аrоund thе wоrld. Thе 10 wіnnіng еntrіеѕ hаvе been rесrеаtеd in lоvіng detail bу Ikеа'ѕ toy dеѕіgnеrѕ, and the creations are nоw оn ѕаlе аѕ раrt of thе сhаіn'ѕ аnnuаl fundraiser. Fоr еасh tоу рurсhаѕеd, Ikea will donate one еurо to сhіldrеn'ѕ еduсаtіоn рrоjесtѕ via Unісеf аnd Save thе Children. Sіnсе launching thе сhаrіtу еffоrt іn 2003, thе Ikеа Foundation has dоnаtеd mоrе thаn $90 million to global сhіldrеn'ѕ саuѕеѕ.
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Ikea is planning to sell a line of rugs made by Syrian refugees
Ikea is planning to sell a line of rugs and textiles made by Syrian refugees in 2019, in an effort to provide jobs to people displaced by the civil war. The move will create jobs for 200 refugees, most of them women, currently living in Jordan, according to CNN. Jesper Brodin, range and supply manager at Ikea, described the situation in Syria as “a major tragedy of our time” adding that Jordan has taken great responsibility in hosting people displaced by Syria’s civil war.
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How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world
Ikea's humble bookcase epitomises a relentless pursuit of lower costs and acceptable functionality.
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Ikea India Announces 26-Week Parental Leave For Both Men, Women
Furnishings company Ikea India has announced a new parental leave policy in which all employees, including men, will be entitled to six months of parental paid leave from this month. In addition to the 26 weeks leave, women employees will have an option of truncated work hours by 50 per cent for another 16 weeks, the Swedish furnishings heavyweight said. "I am delighted to share this news with all our co-workers in India who are working towards opening stores and building the Ikea brand," Ikea India Country HR Manager Anna-Carin Mansson said.
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Ikea donates doll beds for cats at animal shelter
Employees of an animal shelter in Canada thought it would be cute if they could get Ikea doll beds for their rescued cats to lounge in until they're adopted, and Ikea agreed. The Etobicoke Humane Society told The Toronto Star that Ikea donated 10 Duktig doll beds to the shelter. A video posted on YouTube shows shelter workers constructing the beds and the cats checking them out.
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This Ikea Bowl Has Been Setting Things on Fire
The innocent-looking “Blanda blank” is a pyromaniac.
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Ikea smart lightbulbs get HomeKit, Alexa and Google Home support
Ikea’s smart lighting system has received an update that makes its wireless hub compatible with Apple’s HomeKit, as well as with Amazon Alexa, and Google Home. This means if you have the hub and bulbs, you should be able to control them with your voice using any of those devices, as well as control them in Apple’s iOS Home app.
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Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
The Swedish home goods giant is looking for some digital help from the contract labor marketplace.
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Ikea has debuted an indoor farm that grows greens three times faster than a garden
Ikea is known for its flat-pack kitchen tables, islands, and cabinets. Now the home furnishings retailer is experimenting with products that allow people to harvest food at home. Space10, Ikea's innovation lab, has designed a prototype of a mini-farm that can grow greens and herbs indoors. Called Lokal, it uses a hydroponic farming system — allowing crops to grow on trays under LEDs in a climate-controlled box. Space10 debuted the device in September at the London Design Festival in Shoreditch.
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Ikea founder Kamprad dies at 91
The billionaire Swede Ingvar Kamprad founded the pioneering furniture retailer at the age of 17.
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Ikea fortune of $58.7 billion falls to no one after billionaire founder’s death
When Ikea’s Ingvar Kamprad died Saturday at age 91, he was ranked No. 8 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index thanks to his control of a global retail fortune valued at US$58.7 billion. His wealth will now be dissipated because of a unique structure put in place by Kamprad to secure the long-term independence and survival of the Ikea concept.
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IKEA flags selling solar panels “at cost” in Australia, industry reacts
News that Swedish furniture giant IKEA is planning to sell solar panels “at cost” in its Australian stores has been met with mixed responses from the local solar industry, with many expressing fears that it will further destabilise – and perhaps undermine – an already over-crowded solar retail and installation market.
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IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad left $23 billion to charity
IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad amassed 362 billion kronor ($46 billion) in wealth before he died. According to his will, half of that money will go to charity in Sweden, with the rest divided among his children.
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Ikea To Launch Vegan Soft Serve Ice-Cream In Its Stores
Swedish furniture giant Ikea has announced it will be adding vegan soft serve ice-cream to its bistro menu. Taking to Instagram to share the news, it revealed that the frozen treat should be on offer by Summer 2019. The brand shared a picture of ice-cream, captioning it: "100 percent plant-based, 100 percent delicious. Today we are sharing our ambitions to introduce plant-based ice cream to the IKEA Bistro."
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Child fires loaded gun found in sofa at Ikea
A child found something a little different at an Ikea store in Fishers, Indiana: A handgun inside a sofa.
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Ikea has a plan to fix the pollution crisis in India's cities
Ikea has come up with a plan to help some of the world's most polluted cities breathe easier. The global furniture giant will start making products out of agricultural waste in India, meaning farmers no longer have to burn it. The initiative, called "Better Air Now," will provide Indian farmers with a use for unwanted rice straw, which is often burned. Smoke from the fires is one of the major contributors to northern India's pollution crisis.
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