All Ikea articles – Page 12
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AnalysisWhy retailers are investing in experiential stores
Retailers are increasingly investing in experiential stores, providing shoppers with unforgettable experiences to encourage them to keep on visiting the high street.
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NewsIkea pledges to pay newly increased ‘real living wage’
Furniture retailer Ikea has pledged to pay its UK staff the voluntarily introduced ‘real living wage’ at the higher rate of £8.45 per hour.
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DataData: Top 50 retailers by online traffic in the UK
Retail Week exclusive: Department stores enjoy positive results in IMRG’s quarterly ranking of the top 50 retailers by website traffic.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How can struggling fashion retailers weather the storm?
This year has not been kind to fashion retailers with unpredictable weather, trading uncertainty and discount-addicted customers hitting performance.
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NewsIkea launches new UK pilot website to bolster ecommerce business
Ikea has given its website a makeover as part of its ambition to become more convenient to UK shoppers, with plans to roll it out globally.
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NewsIkea group sales jump as it prepares to enter India and Serbia
Ikea has hailed a year of “solid growth” as the furniture giant prepares to launch a bricks-and-mortar presence in two new markets.
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VideoWatch: Ikea cooks up large portion of retailtainment with London pop-up
Ikea has exploded into ‘retailtainment’ with the launch of a pop-up do-it-yourself restaurant and food store in London’s Shoreditch.
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AnalysisRetail Diary: Tin Foyle’s epic adventures and Ikea’s do-it-yourself dinners
Foyles’s ‘Tin Foyle’ has been making friends, Ikea is exploring an unconventional dining concept and Daphne Sherman ‘Buttons Down’.
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NewsStore gallery: A walk through Ikea's first shopping centre store
Ikea is trialling a range of order and collection points stores across the UK, and opened its fourth inside Westfield Stratford City today.
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VideoWatch: How Ikea has shrunk to fit in at Westfield Stratford City
Ikea has opened its first store in a UK shopping centre. How has the Swedish furniture retailer adapted to fit its new surroundings?
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CartoonBlower’s retail cartoon: Ikea unpacks itself in Westfield Stratford
Cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on Ikea’s new click-and-collect shop in Westfield Stratford, part of a trial of smaller stores across the UK
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OpinionThis week in retail: Ikea's new store format will satisfy consumers
Ikea has adapted its model in order to trade from much smaller branches, dubbed order and collection points.
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NewsAgenda: McColl's trading update and Ikea opens at Westfield Stratford
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days with a trading update from McColl’s and Ikea’s Westfield Stratford opening both on the agenda.
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NewsMothercare boss Newton-Jones poised to join board of Ikea parent group
Mothercare chief executive Mark Newton-Jones has been proposed to become the furniture giant’s first UK board executive.
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NewsStore gallery: Ikea's first small store in a city centre location
Ikea has opened its first order and collection point in a city centre location as it continues to trial smaller format stores across the UK.
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AnalysisBig box, little box, cardboard box: Why big retailers are shrinking
Big-box retailers are branching out of retail parks and adopting new channels such as smaller high street stores to target new shoppers.
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GalleryStore gallery: Inside Chris Dawson's The Range in Reading
As property pundit and The Range founder Chris Dawson enters Retail Week’s rich list, we take a look at what the retailer has to offer.
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AnalysisOpinion: What are the limits of celebrity retail endorsement?
With the news that Kanye West wants to team up with Ikea, John Ryan looks at other unlikely celebrity endorsements that could make an impact.
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NewsRetail diary: Ikea has bedroom plans for Kanye and Majestic chimes wine-time
Ikea has plans in the bedroom for Kanye West, Majestic chimes in wine o’clock and commuters get blown away by Currys PC World.
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DataData: The top 50 retailers by online traffic in the UK
June 2016: Amazon tops IMRG’s quarterly ranking of the top 50 retailers by website traffic.