All Ikea articles – Page 15
-
News
Retail Diary: Hotel Chocolat's cocoa contracts and Kanye jets East to Ikea
Hotel Chocolat’s cocoa contracts, Screwfix’s mistaken identity, Kanye West flies East for Ikea visit and Greggs launches nappuccino pods.
-
News
Ikea's UK profits nearly triple after healthy rise in sales
Swedish home furnishings specialist Ikea’s UK profits nearly tripled last year after several years of earnings volatility.
-
News
Retail Diary: Ikea's king pins and My Local's Twitter beef
Ikea rewards long-serving staff with Allen key pins, My Local’s Twitter beef spills over and Majestic Wine changes its Stock Exchange ticker.
-
News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on supermarkets, Ikea and Amazon
Retail news round-up on February 11, 2016: Watchdog to ban misleading offers by supermarkets, Ikea recalls Lock and Hyby lamps and Amazon's share buy back.
-
News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on BHS, Burberry, Ikea and more
Retail news round-up on February 8, 2016: BHS overhaul to trigger store closures, Ikea loses trademark in Indonesia and Burberry's catwalk range to be available immediately.
-
Analysis
The top 10 m-commerce sites, according to OC&C’s Proposition Index
Marketplace eBay has the top mobile website in the retail industry, according to consumers, followed by Amazon and then Apple.
-
News
Retail diary: Beighton’s model behaviour and Ikea’s meatball dilemma
Asos boss Nick Beighton displays some model behaviour, Asda helps a shopper out of a hairy situation and Ikea’s meatball climate change dilemma.
-
Gallery
Store gallery: Stationery retailer Kikki.K makes UK debut in Covent Garden
Lifestyle brand Kikki.K has earmarked its new pop-up shop in Covent Garden as a template for its international expansion plans.
-
News
Ikea UK full-year sales up 11.3% as four new big stores planned
Ikea has revealed an 11.3% rise in full-year UK sales as it seeks to boost its presence with four new big-box stores and a new smaller format.
-
Cartoon
Blower’s retail cartoon: Ikea eyes BHS Oxford Street for high street debut
Retail Week cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on the news that Ikea is considering launching its first UK high street store on Oxford Street.
-
News
Ikea considering first high street store on Oxford Street
Ikea is in discussions about trialling one of its ‘order-and-collection point’ store formats in the current BHS building on Oxford Street.
-
News
Ikea US to open more stores as bricks-and-mortar sales climb 4.5%
Ikea US is planning to expand, opening up to five new stores by autumn 2017 as sales continue to flourish across North America.
-
News
Aldi gazumps rival Lidl by pledging to pay above the 'real' living wage
Aldi has gazumped discount rival Lidl’s new rates of pay by pledging to award its store staff at least £8.40 per hour from early next year.
-
News
Ikea partners with DreamWorks to create animation to accompany toy range
Ikea has teamed up with film studio DreamWorks to create a series of animated short films to accompany the launch of its toy collection.
-
Analysis
Morrisons pledges to pay all shopfloor staff more than Osborne's living wage
Morrisons will increase its hourly rate for store staff of all ages to £8.20, outstripping Chancellor George Osborne’s national living wage.
-
Analysis
Retail Diary: Maplin's Drone Academy and Retail Week's caption competition
Electricals retailer Maplin launches a Drone Academy, a Morrisons shopper puts the final kale in his diet coffin and enter our caption competition.
-
Video
Shortcuts: How Lidl is setting the agenda in the living wage debate
As retailers weigh up the repercussions of the living wage, Luke Tugby takes 60 seconds to explain how Lidl is forging its own path.
-
Analysis
Lidl to be first supermarket in UK to pay staff a 'real living wage'
Lidl has become the first UK supermarket to pledge to pay its staff a real living wage in a move that will hand pay rises to 9,000 workers.
-
Opinion
Comment: Ikea offers brilliant lessons in the detail of retail
My favourite retailer is Ikea. It such a successful business and it offers so much for companies to learn about focusing on details.
-
Analysis
The key themes to emerge from the 'Super Thursday' results day
From Morrisons and Dixons to Next and John Lewis, a slew of retailers updated today. Here are the themes, from the living wage to productivity.