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    While on the subject, does anyone know if there's an Ikea in Italy
    somewhere? At least recently, their stuff has started having labels
    in Italian (and Finnish, too, so I assume they plan a branch in
    Finland).
    

    RE:-1
    
    Indeed, they have planned for over 20 years. That time they have
    possessed a piece of land to build their facilities. Unfortunately for
    us, the finnish furniture industry has been able to suspend their
    permission to build. However, it seems like IKEA would eventually get
    their permissions and licences and build a large "furniture market" in
    Espoo (about 20 kilometres to west from Helsinki) within a couple
    of years. 

    Jouko
    

    IKEA is a Digital customer; moreover, IKEA U.S. is even a customer
    of our management consultancy. You can read an interesting note
    on this in the TOP_MAPPING conference:
    
    	SHIRE::TOP_MAPPING
    	Note 2, reply 23 (2.23)
    
    The note states that IKEA has 7 stores in Canada and plans to have
    30 in the US by the early 1990's.
    
    Additional note of interest for you "Fortune" readers:
    
    Ingvar Kamperad (the founder and "I.K." of IKEA) is the only
    Scandinavian to make the Fortune list of world wide current billionaires
    (est wealth $1.5 billion). He is listed as "Swiss" (obviously, as
    all you faithful readers of this column know, being "Scandinavian"
    and a "billionaire" is a logical impossibility---our governments
    see to that).
    
    Regards
    
    One who has no expectations of making the list in the nesr future.
    
                                                        

    In that case..
    
    IKEA,
    Welcome to Finland.
    
    Tapio Leino
    Sales Rep.
    Manufacturing Industry Unit

This is the only location listed in the 1986 IKEA catalogue, but I think
there is at least a second store in the US by now:

    IKEA Pennsylvania Inc.
    Plymouth Meeting Mall
    Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

    (215) 834-0150

I got my catalogue by sending a dollar or two the above address, but you
better call first and check what the current procedures/rates are.

The catalogue lists most of the furniture available with pictures, descriptions
and prices. They do not do mailorder so you have to go to the store in order
to buy abything.

- Mikael

> They do not do mailorder so you have to go to the store in order
> to buy abything.

On the other hand, Swedish IKEA does do mailorder, so you could probably
work something out with a letter, some patience, and a lot of money.

Martin.

>> They do not do mailorder so you have to go to the store in order
>> to buy abything.

>On the other hand, Swedish IKEA does do mailorder, so you could probably
>work something out with a letter, some patience, and a lot of money.

I don't know about Swedish IKEA but IKEA in Germany passes the yearly catalog
out to every house/apartment/etc in Germany as far as I could tell.  Both
apartments I was in (F�rth/Bayern and Landshut) got them door-delivered and
every house and apartment building in town did too (at least the many 
appartment buildings we saw.)  And this wasn't just a little advertisement
flyer type of thing but a full 150-250 page glossy color catalog.  I wonder
how much it costs to pass out (60+ million folks in Germany, approx. 3 people
in a family/unit average = 20 million people units, take 10% of that for a
conservative estimate of households =) 2 million catalogs to the doorstep???
:-)


chad

Does this mean when IKEA gets up to steam with its NA/US store chain that
we'll get yearly catalogs too???  delivered???

PS: I kept my 1987 Ikea Katalog -- nice stuff

    The address in .5 is current, the charge is $2.
    

	There is an IKEA in southern France just outside of Marseille near
	the airport.  We like to go down there once or twice a year just to
	go shopping (from Valbonne).

		\rikki

    In the New York Times, Sunday, April 16, 1989 Career Opportunities
    section, there is an ad for decorators and managers.  IKEA is planning
    to open a store in Elizabeth, New Jeresy in the spring of 1990.

    From: [email protected]
    Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
    Subject: IKEA (was: Finnish Cloudberry Liqueur)
    Date: 15 May 90 14:20:17 GMT
    Organization: Penn State University
 
 
    In article <[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (Shahin Kahn) says:
    
    >And by the way, yes, Ikea is expanding in the US, I think.  They just
    >opened their 4th store (to my knowledge), so, pretty soon,
    >all american homes could be proud owners of Ikea products.
    >(There is one across the highway from the Newark airport in new jersey
    >where SAS flies into these days, a big blue box of a building!)
    >
    >Shahin.
 
    I think that the latest count of Ikea stores is five with more in the
    planning stages.  There are two in Pennsylvania (one in Norristown near
    Philadelphia, and one near Pittsburgh).  There is one in New Jersey as
    mentioned above and I believe that there are two in the Baltimore-
    Washington area.  The small food sections carry most of the food items
    that Swedes usually have a difficult time finding here in the states
    (lingonberry and cloudberry jams, Swedish mustard, Attiksprit (a type
    of vinegar), and Swedish brands of coffee, candy, cookies herring,
    cheese etc.). The selection is variable but improving at least at the
    Norristown store.
 
    Bryan Finn

    
    RE .-1
    
>>(There is one across the highway from the Newark airport in new jersey
>>where SAS flies into these days, a big blue box of a building!)
    
    	Yes it is! And it says "IKEA" in large yellow letters on the
    	outside of the building.  If you are flying into or out of
    	Newark Airport you have a good chance of seeing it while out
    	on the runway.   BTW - Its now open for business.

    From: [email protected] (Melvin Klassen)
    Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
    Subject: Re: Swenglish advertisement
    Date: 7 Mar 91 00:24:21 GMT
    Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
 
    In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Anne C. Elster)
    writes:

    >
    >Slogans in foreign languages happen over here in the US, too:

    They also happen in Canada.

    Ikea (importer of semi-assembled Swedish-made furniture) did a very
    humourous ad entirely in Swedish which was broadcast in British
    Columbia. The speaker talked about Ikea while he and the furniture
    moved along a conveyor belt.  As he tilted off one end of the belt, the
    camera panned to the opposite end of the belt, where he tilted into an
    upright position, and restarted his spiel. One bilingual
    (Canadian-Swedish) friend heard the commercial while doing her
    homework, understood it all, and then realized that what she had heard
    was not spoken in her primary language!

    
    Wow!  A note about IKEA!
    
    I work part-time at the Plymouth Meeting store in PA (outside
    Philadelphia) and have been since *before* it's opening day (the first
    to open in the USA), which means six fun years).  They're a great 
    company to work for!
    
    Anyway...so far there are 7 stores in the US - Plymouth Meeting, DC
    (south of the city), Baltimore MD, Pittsburgh PA, Long Island NY,
    Elizabeth NJ and Burbank CA.
    
    I also understand there's a map on one of the walls in one of the
    offices with all kinds of little markers indicating future IKEA
    sites in the US...
    
    If anyone's got any questions about store sites or whatever, let me
    know and I'll see what I can do!
    
    ---Marlene
       GRANPA::MWALLA
                                    

    From: [email protected] (Simon Tardell)
    Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
    Subject: Re: IKEA
    Date: 4 May 93 10:39:12 GMT
    Sender: [email protected] (Usenet)
    Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
 
    In <[email protected]> [email protected] (Adrian Lee) writes:
  
   >Can someone tell me what the letters IKEA (the furniture/homeware/etc. etc.
   >company) stand for?
 
    IK is the initials of Ingvar Kamprad, founder of the company, EA is
    from the 'socken' and village he's from ('socken' is something similar
    to parish, though generally bigger, I think). --  Simon Tardell, Ff88,
    [email protected]              

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    From: [email protected] (Asgeir Eiriksson)
    Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
    Subject: Re: IKEA
    Date: 4 May 1993 16:37:00 GMT
    Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
 
    From the 1993 IKEA catalog:
 
    ...

    Ingvar Kampard began to build his dream of a better work at the young
    age of 17, while still living at his family's farm called Elmtaryd, in
    the village of Agunnaryd. These initials spell IKEA, i.e. (Ingvar
    Kampard Elmtaryd Agunnaryd).
 
  'Asgeir
  --
  'Asgeir Th. Eiriksson
   Silicon Graphics Inc.
   Mountain View, CA

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    Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
    From: [email protected] (Rolf Manne)
    Subject: Re: IKEA
    Sender: [email protected] (Bergen University Newsaccount)
    Organization: University of Bergen
    Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 12:46:11 GMT
 
    He first sold furniture by mail-order from his garage, then advertised
    that people got get it still cheaper if they picked it up themselves.
    When the garage became too small he moved to the nearby town of �lmhult
    where the first big store was built. I remember from around 1960 that
    bus companies operated tour buses for IKEA customers to �lmhult from
    most of southern Sweden. The second store opened outside Stockholm in
    the middle 60's, I think.
 
    Rolf Manne
    e-mail: [email protected]

           STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- The founder of the home furnishing
    giant IKEA has sent a letter to some 25,000 employees worldwide
    explaining his past involvement with pro-Nazi groups, the company
    said Tuesday.
            Ingvar Kamprad, 68, was trying to head off any fallout from
    reports this week by the Stockholm daily Expressen. The paper
    uncovered Kamprad's name in the archives of a Swedish pro-Nazi
    activist who died recently.
            The archives showed that Kamprad had attended a number of
    meetings and had befriended the activist, Per Engdahl, starting in
    1945 and extending into the 1950s.
            The newspaper printed more details Tuesday, including the text
    of a 1950 note from Kamprad to the extremist leader in which
    Kamprad said he was ``proud'' to be involved with the groups.
            Kamprad admitted his involvement in a hand-written statement
    which was sent Monday to some 125 IKEA stores employing 25,000
    people around the world, said his assistant, Staffan Jeppsson.
            In the note, Kamprad called his activities ``a part of my life
    which I bitterly regret.''
            He said he cut off the contacts in the 1950s when he ``realized
    this was a mistake.'' Kamprad denied he ever was a formal member of
    the rightist groups and said he was drawn to Engdahl's vision of a
    non-communist, socialist Europe.
            ``The contact with with Engdahl lasted some time into the
    1950s, but became more and more one-sided,'' Kamprad wrote. ``However, I
    was not brave enough to put my foot down down.''
            ``You have been young yourself,'' he continued in the note to
    employees. ``Perhaps something happened during your own youth which
    you now, a long time afterwards, think was silly. In that case it
    will be easier for you to understand me.''
            At least one major newspaper came to the defense of the IKEA
    executive, who is admired by many Swedes for his business success.
    The paper Vestmanlands Lans Tidning criticized Expressen for
    picking on Kamprad when ``it would make more sense to take aim at
    those who have not woken up and changed their minds.''
            Kamprad opened his first store in 1958, selling disassembled,
    good-quality, inexpensive furniture in a big warehouse-style
    stores. The company has grown worldwide and Kamprad is listed as
    one of Sweden's richest men.
            About 125 stores operate in 26 countries under the IKEA name,
    including 13 in the United States. About 25 of the stores are
    franchised, while the rest are part of Kamprad's chain.
            The company announced this year that it plans to open up to
    five new stores in China within a few years, although the locations 
    have not been decided.
            The chain, which is privately held and has not disclosed its
    earnings, requires all employees to take its ``IKEA Way'' course
    that incorporates Kamprad's own teachings with special training in
    the store's philosophy of customer service, Jeppsson said.

    From: Christina Westerdal <[email protected]>
    Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
    Subject: Re: IKEA 
    Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 12:41:17 -0800
    Organization: University of Washington
 
    IKEA is located in Philidelphia, Washington D.C. (Woodbridge),
    Baltimore,  Pittsburg, New Jersy (Elizabeth), Los Angeles (Burbank,
    Fontana, Tustin,  City of Industry, and Carson), New York (Long
    Island), Houston, and Seattle  (Renton).  As for any future hopes of
    others, they are planning to build one in Chicago and in an article I
    read IKEA's overall plans are to have around 60 stores in the US.