Inter IKEA Systems collected € 631 million of franchise fees in 2004, but reported pre-tax profits of only € 225 million in 2004.

However, lack of first team football at his club Inter meant Davids also lost his place in the national team in October 2004, thus losing the captain's armband in the process, which was later handed to Edwin van der Sar.

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Facchetti was elected president of Inter on 19 January 2004.

Emre gradually became out of favour at Inter due to persistent injuries, and after making just nineteen appearances during the 2004 – 05 season, he became available for transfer.

* Audio interview of Battisti, by Isabelle Sommier, February 11, 2004, France Inter on Daniel Mermet's show

In his club career, Dino Baggio played for Torino ( 1989 – 91 ), Inter Milan ( 1991 – 92 ), Juventus ( 1992 – 94 ), Parma ( 1994 – 2000 ), Lazio ( 2000 – 03 and 2004 – 05 ), Blackburn Rovers ( 2003 – 04 ), Ancona ( 2004 ).

After a year at Inter Milan, Helveg moved on to play in England in the summer 2004.

He also guided the Italian clubs he managed to a record 5 consecutive Coppa Italia finals from 2004 to 2008, with Lazio once in 2004 and with Inter in the following four seasons.

Mancini managed Inter Milan from 2004 to 2008.

In early February 2004, Stanković played his debut match for Inter under head coach Alberto Zaccheroni, a Serie A clash at home against Siena that ended 4 – 0.

On 21 February 2004, he scored a spectacular goal directly from a corner kick to put Inter 1 – 0 up in Derby della Madonnina versus fierce rivals Milan.

The press reports of Stanković's pending arrival to Juve sparked the club's fans into protests and online petitions as they would neither forgive his turning down the club back in January 2004 nor his exuberant public celebrations after the 2005 – 06 Serie A title was stripped from Juve and handed to Inter following the Calciopoli scandal.

However, under his leadership Inter has since clinched 5 Serie A titles ( 2005 – 2006, 2006 – 07, 2007 – 08, 2008 – 09, and 2009 – 10 ), 4 Coppa Italia titles ( 2004 – 05, 2005 – 06, 2009 – 10, 2010 – 11 ), 4 Supercoppa Italiana titles ( 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 ), 1 UEFA Cup ( Europa League )( 1998 ) 1 UEFA Champions League title ( 2010 ) and 1 FIFA Club World Cup title ( 2010 ).

He was winner of the 2004 Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE for Johnny chien méchant.

In January 2004, Serbian player Dejan Stanković was signed by Inter from Lazio and Pandev was sent to the capital in exchange on a co-ownership deal, for a nominal fee of € 1, 000, but he remained at Ancona until end of 2003-04 season.

One of the moves it made around that time ( 2004 ) was the sale of 3 of Canada's largest natural gas treatment plants ( extracts natural gas liquids from it ) to Inter Pipeline Fund for US $ 540 million.

In the 2004 / 05 season he scored 12 goals for Inter Bratislava in the Corgoň Liga, before transferring in the 2005 / 06 season to Artmedia for 20 million Koruna.

* In the wake of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, IKEA Australia agreed to match dollar for dollar co-workers donations and donated all sales of the IKEA Blue Bag to the cause.

* In September 2004, when IKEA offered a limited number of free $ 150 vouchers at the opening of a new store in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, three people were crushed to death in a stampede that followed the store's opening.

* IKEA was refused planning permission for a future store in the United Kingdom in 2004 ( to be based in Stockport, near Manchester ) by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

IKEA was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 and 2005 by Working Mothers magazine.

In 2004, an IKEA store opened on the west end of the former Met Center site.

After controversy, a lawsuit, and a rival proposal for an IKEA store, a large Lowe's store was built and opened on April 30, 2004, with an adjacent public promenade overlooking the canal.

In 2004, an IKEA store opened on the west end of the property, and the new American Boulevard was rerouted through the east end of the property.

Tim Finn had resumed his solo career after leaving the group in 1992 and he also worked with Neil on a second Finn Brothers album, Everyone Is Here, which was released in 2004.

In 2004 the British hip hop group The Streets released A Grand Don't Come for Free, a concept album charting a period of the protagonists life in which he meets a girl, starts a relationship with her and then breaks up with her after finding out she has been cheating on him.

* Never Again — international genocide prevention group ; organized 2004 Rwanda Forum at the Imperial War Museum in London.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

Europe of Democracies and Diversities was a euro-sceptic political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2004.

Following the elections in 2004, the former MEPs of the group took MEPs from the new member countries on board and together, they registered the new group Independence and Democracy ( IND / DEM ).

Since 20 July 2004, ELDR is politically represented in the European Parliament by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ( ALDE ) parliamentary group, formed in conjunction with the European Democratic Party.

The ELDR Europarty allied with the European Democratic Party in 2004 to form the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, with a matching group in the European Parliament.

In 2004, 37 Members of the European Parliament ( MEPs ) from the UK, Poland, Denmark and Sweden founded a new European Parliament group called “ Independence and Democracy ” from the old Europe of Democracies and Diversities ( EDD ) group.

The June List, a eurosceptic list consisting of members from both the political right and left won three seats in the 2004 Elections to the European Parliament and sat in the EU-critical IND / DEM group in the European Parliament.

* 2004 – Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England.

Anti-capitalist art group the Space Hijackers, for example, did a piece in 2004 about the contradiction between the capitalistic elements of Banksy and his use of political imagery.

In December 2004, during the War in Afghanistan ( 2001-present ) | War in Afghanistan, a group of U. S. Army soldiers tries to free a HMMWV, which is stuck in the sands of southern Afghanistan.

Societal group representation in the MPR was eliminated in 2004 through further constitutional change.

A group of seventeen authors headed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported the discovery of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a male, in the Big Woods area of Arkansas in 2004 and 2005, publishing the report in the journal Science on 28 April 2005 ( Fitzpatrick et al., 2005 ).

According to the industry group Craft Yarn Council of America, the number of women knitters in the United States age 25 – 35 increased 150 % in the two years between 2002 and 2004.

Palau ( which withdrew from membership in 2004 ) is the only other Pacific developing nation that is not part of the group.

In 2004 they were permanently transformed into their own entity ( keeping the same name ) but having inherited another group of five very remote tropical islands,

On 10 September 2004, Mr Juncker became the semi-permanent President of the group of finance ministers from the 12 countries that share the euro, a role dubbed " Mr Euro ".

The Lake Eyre Yacht Club is a dedicated group of sailors who sail on the lake's floods, including recent trips in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009.

* In Neal Stephenson's 2004 novel The Confusion, a group of characters are detained and subjected to torture by Spanish religious authorities in 1600's Mexico, prompting one of them to exclaim, " I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

With the failure of the coup Hanenna initially escaped capture, and formed a group called the Knights of Change with Mohamed Ould Cheikhna, but he was arrested on October 9, 2004.