Ikea Store In Sweden Uses Facebook Photo Tags To Gain Publicity

A new Ikea store in Malmo, Sweden has turned to Facebook for help in promoting the new store and gaining widespread publicity. Advertising agency Forsman and Bodenfors launched an online campaign for Ikea with a...

New IKEA store in Southampton

IKEA opened recently their first shop in Southampton. It is the first shop they open in the South of England and people are arriving from all the nearby towns. I visited the place a couple of weeks after it opened,...

IKEA to Launch Leko Eco-Concept Car Made of Wood and Screws

There's an automotive rumor running around today and it's all about pairing assemble-it-yourself Swedish home furnishings and furniture manufacturer IKEA — with the launch of an eco-friendly compact concept car. ...

IKEA's Free Software Turns You Into An Interior Designer...

When it comes to designing your home, some people just got it. And then there are others, like me, who just don't.  If you fall into the second category, help is here. And it's free so that's always good....

Will your Restaurant serve Barack of Lamb on Inauguration Day?

If nothing else, it seems that the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States has unleashed a marketing blitz close in scope to the Super Bowl mania.At least it keeps the advertising crowd busy.In the past few hours alone, I noticed the Ikea Contest Embrace...

IKEA to Open Winnipeg Location

After years of rumoured speculation, IKEA announced on Tuesday plans to open a store in Winnipeg, Manitoba between late 2011 and early 2013. The company issued a press release highlighting the location of Kenaston...

IKEA Finds Location in Winnipeg, Manitoba

IKEA has confirmed that they have found a site that’s feasible for building a store in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada IKEA wouldn’t say where their planned location will be, and they have yet to file any papers...

Ikea Spoof commercial - desperate plea to get on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch

Cindy Martin, Founder of Cash for Creations, Inc., a company who pays teachers for their original ideas of educational visual aids, manufactures the products and sells them on-line, wants to be on The Big Idea...

Ikea trashes disposable bags

Ikea is doing their part to save the environment, and is banning all disposable bags from their stores.Starting today, across North Amercia, the furnishing giant will no longer be offering any kind of bags at any...

Future of Mobile Search: Virtual Shopping #1

Seventh post of this concept design: Looking Glass I’m pretty sure companies like Ikea would quickly start to use this device this way if it became really available.

Living at IKEA - Mark Malkoff

Last summer, he went to and consumed a product from all of New York's 171 Starbucks Coffee joints. This year, he's been booted out of his apartment for fumigation and decided that since all his furniture was from...

Armed robbers ram through IKEA window

"Armed robbers crashed a stolen four-wheel drive vehicle through the front window of an IKEA store in Madrid, packed with Christmas shoppers yesterday. Four hooded people jumped out of the vehicle and fired shots...

Hacking Ikea

"Winnie Lam was thinking about food when she made her Chocolate Sundae Toppings footstool, fashioned from a few bags of cotton pompoms hot-glued to an Ikea stool. “It came from staring into a bowl of ice cream one day,” said Ms. Lam, 31, who lives in Mountain View,...

Shop till you drop at Ikea ... then sleep over in the store

"OSLO (AFP) - No longer content to offer consumers Swedish meatballs and self-assembly shelves, Ikea in Norway is now offering weary shoppers the chance to sleep over in one of its Oslo showrooms free of charge."

Ikea to introduce anti-idling program, hybrid preferential parking spots

"Drivers of hybrid cars can expect to get a plum parking spot at Ikea stores in Canada thanks to a new program designed to reward green consumers. Starting May 16, the Swedish furniture retailer will dedicate two...

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