Ikea, a multinational mammoth masked in modesty
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As Swedish do-it-yourself furniture giant Ikea conquers more and more ground, the company is struggling to make its austere founding ideals mesh with life as a multinational mammoth.
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The shoes may be cute, but there's a scary stock lurking behind them.
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This isn't South Korea or Germany. Wal-Mart goes all in, facing new challenges.
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Sometimes the biggest rewards are hiding out of sight.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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Similar strategies finely tuned over the past sixty years have made Ikea's flatpack furniture and H and M's affordable fashion major Swedish export successes the world over, as the two groups continue to expand year after year.
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Pampering knows no limit in the land of the high-tech commode
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CHIC is in. As consumer electronics and IT manu
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Furniture maker Ikea plans to hire tens of thousands of new workers as the company continues to expand with dozens of new stores opening around the world, the company's chief executive said in an interview published Monday.
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Swedish furniture chain Ikea  announces it its to replace its company car fleet with hybrid vehicles.
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Company claims the HDTV is the biggest of its kind.
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Whatever it is (Radio Shack for rich people? The Sharp -est Image?), the Apple Store isn't what it used to be, even a year or so ago. The initial thrills, the feelings of i-comfort and i-belonging, still await you behind its translucent facade, especially now, in the gizmodic spree of the Christmas...
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Caitlin Magnusson's laptop was on the top shelf of her closet, sealed in flowery wrapping paper, covered in duct tape and caged in a box. But every morning she would wake up in her dorm room and still turn to her desk to reach for it. It had become muscular memory.
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Several people are injured as thousands of customers flock to the opening of a new Ikea store in north London.
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The home furnishings retailer is showing improvement in a difficult year.
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Drama unfolds: uninvited to an Armani show.
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.