As of October 2011, IKEA has 332 stores in 38 countries.

In Hong Kong, where shop space is limited and costly, IKEA has opened three outlets across the city, most of which have the one-way layout.

IKEA has extended its product range with the introduction of the IKEA food label.

IKEA has also expanded their product base to include flat-pack houses, in an effort to cut prices involved in a first-time buyer's home.

In common with some other retailers, IKEA has launched a loyalty card in some of its locations called " IKEA family ".

The company responsible for this liquidation traces back to the Interogo Foundation in Liechtenstein Ingvar Kamprad has confirmed that this foundation owns Inter IKEA Holding S. A. in Luxembourg and is controlled by the Kamprad family.

IKEA has refused to explain these charges, but Inter IKEA Systems appears to make large payments to I. I.

The Berne Declaration, a non-profit organisation in Switzerland that promotes corporate responsibility, has formally criticised IKEA for its tax avoidance strategies.

* IKEA has provided furniture for over 100 " bridge schools " in Liberia.

On 23 February 2009, at the ECOSOC event in New York, UNICEF announced that IKEA Social Initiative has become the agency's largest corporate partner, with total commitments of more than US $ 180 million.

In 2009, Sweden's largest television station, SVT, revealed that IKEA's money — the three per cent collection from each store — does not actually go to a charitable foundation in the Netherlands, as IKEA has said.

Inter IKEA is owned by a foundation in Liechtenstein, called Interogo, which has amassed twelve billion dollars, is controlled by the Kamprad family.

Today IKEA has around 60 IWAY auditors that performs hundreds of supplier audits every year.

More recently, IKEA has stopped providing plastic bags to customers, but offers reusable bags for sale.

IKEA has recycling bins for compact fluorescent lamps ( CFLs ), energy saving bulbs and batteries.

In order to make IKEA a more sustainable company a product life cycle has been created, and there is now a never ending list.

* IKEA has demolished historic buildings in at least one case for a parking area.

* As a teenager, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was directly involved in the pro-Nazi New Swedish Movement ( Nysvenska Rörelsen ) until at least 1948, causing tensions when IKEA began opening stores in Israel, although one source has claimed that the movement was not pro-Nazi.

* Former Norwegian prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has criticized IKEA for not depicting women assembling furniture in its instruction booklets, despite the fact that many sets of instructions do, in fact, show women.

IKEA Dublin has since opened on 27 July 2009.

Toilets in some IKEA WC-rooms have been outfitted with dual-function flushers.

IKEA's goals of sustainability and environmental design in their merchandise have sometimes been at odds with the impact a new IKEA store can have on a community.

* IKEA has been criticised by Citytv in Canada for charging as much as twice the price in their Canadian stores for the same items sold in their American stores, this despite the Canadian dollar reaching parity with the U. S. dollar.

Onis is possibly the only company to have ever been advertised by IKEA in such a fashion.

The record has since been broken by a Norwegian IKEA display.

" In addition, Kamprad has been known to visit IKEA for a " cheap meal.

Written in 1976, it has since been considered the fundamental ideology of the IKEA furniture retail concept.

IKEA purchased the former FH Lloyd steel plant from Triplex in 1988, and opened one of its first British stores on the site in January 1991, just 14 months after the development had been given the go-ahead.

Opposite the Megacenter, an IKEA has been constructed, replacing the smaller store a kilometre away in the adjoining suburb of Osborne Park.

He has also been an artist in advertising campaigns for numerous large organizations and corporations-including Greenpeace and IKEA.

Public sentiment against the practice has, in some countries, been strong enough that large retailers such as IKEA and Patagonia ( a clothing manufacturer ) have been forced to alter product lines to eliminate the use ( or possible use ) of live-plucked down.

At Herbert Dreilich's suggestion, the band replaced him with his 35-year-old son Claudius Dreilich, who had previously been manager of an IKEA furniture store in Austria.

After the company filed for bankruptcy, title sponsorship was taken over by Swedish Furniture and Housewares retailer IKEA, whose North American Home office has been in nearby Plymouth Meeting since 1982.

Eastville Stadium ( on the west bank of the Frome ) used to be the home of Bristol Rovers Football Club, as well as being a site for greyhound racing and speedway, but this site has now been developed by IKEA.

Lingonberry jam has been popularized in North America by the well-known IKEA superstores where it is sold in large quantities, including buckets.

IKEA products help customers to live a more sustainable life at home.

Communities such as Whistler and Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada and corporations such as Interface and IKEA have adopted the Natural Step and become more sustainable as a result.

IKEA store at Port Island in Kobe, Japan, one of the very few IKEA stores with direct mass transit access.

IKEA is the world's third-largest consumer of wood, behind The Home Depot and Lowe's.

They are often designed in a one-way layout, leading customers counter clockwise along what IKEA calls " the long natural way " designed to encourage the customer to see the store in its entirety ( as opposed to a traditional retail store, which allows a consumer to go directly to the section where the goods and services needed are displayed ).

The company as of April 2012 is in venture with Swedish furniture giant IKEA to provide the consumer electronics behind the Uppleva integrated HDTV and entertainment system product.