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Ikea the mail order company
Ikea started as a compnay that sold small items such as fountin pens, lighter, and bidners, The business was run out of a kitchen and advertised through news letters. -
Addition of furniture
By adding funitue to the news letter it generated imediate sucess. -
The first IKEA catalog is published
IKEA founder sees the opportunity to sell furniture on a larger scale using a catalog. The IKEA catalog that we know today is born. -
Furniture showroom opens in Älmhult, Sweden
This is an important moment in the development of the IKEA concept - for the first time customers can see and touch IKEA home furnishings before ordering them. -
Designing furniture for flat packs and self-assembly
competitors pressure for suppliers to boycott IKEA. -
The first IKEA store opens in Sweden
The first IKEA store in Älmhult has 6,700 square meters of home furnishings! At the time, it is the largest furniture display in Scandinavia. -
The first IKEA restaurant
The first IKEA restaurant opens in the IKEA store in Älmhult, Sweden. -
IKEA arrives in Norway
The first IKEA store outside Sweden opens in Oslo. -
IKEA store opens in Stockholm, Sweden
The store's success leads to the opening of a self-serve warehouse - an important part of the IKEA concept is born. -
Switzerland
Switzerland became one of the first non-Scandinavin market -
Germany
IKEA expands into germany, the largets market for IKEA -
The first environmental policy at IKEA
The IKEA Group develops an environmental policy to ensure that the company and its co-workers take environmental responsibility for all activities conducted within its business. -
New president and CEO
Ingvar Kamprad retires from Group Management to become an advisor to the parent company INGKA Holding B.V. Anders Moberg becomes President and CEO of the IKEA Group. -
the 1990's
1994- year ended in over 4.5 Billion in sales
with a net margin of 8.4%
worked with over 2,300 Suppliers
In 70 Countries
with a range of 11,200 products -
Social Wake-Up
Swedish TV documentry showed children in Pakistan working at weaving looms. -
Marianne Barner Delema
After two years with Ikea Marianne is faced a tough decison.
