Ikea was founded in 1943 and has been the world’s largest furniture retailer since 2008. It has a successful business model focused on offering stylish flat-pack furniture at affordable prices. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Ikea and the home and DIY sector..
The home retailer is testing out their new experience in the Welcome to Bloxburg life-simulation game, where Roblox players can make and design homes.
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As Ikea UK&I boss Peter Jelkeby prepares to step down from his post and take over the lead job at the furniture giant’s operation in Germany, he speaks to Retail Week about how shoppers have changed, the moves by competitors that he has envied and the learnings he’ll be taking forward into his new job.
Retailers affected by the Cloudflare outage are now reported to be back up and running following payment and checkout issues.
The furniture retailer announced retail sales of £2.25bn in its 2025 financial year, which runs to August, down by 2.1% on the year before.
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