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[edit] Place of Registration

IKEA is a Dutch, not Swedish, corporation. Since people often mistake this fact, it is important to stress it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.151.177 (talk) 20:26, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

No, IKEA is a Swedish company, registered in the Netherlands for tax reasons. P. S. Burton (talk) 14:59, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

IKEA is not a Swedish company. It is founded in Sweeden, but is today a Dutch company. Please, read the whole introduction. --Rerumirf (talk) 20:41, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Third largest consumer of wood in the world?

Keep seeing this asserted: is it true? If so, should it not be mentioned in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.2.38 (talk) 14:33, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Corporate structure

It has now been revealed by the SVT programme Uppdrag granskning that Inter Ikea is owned by Inter Ikea Holding SA which is in turn owned by the Liechtenstein-based Interogo Foundation which is controlled by Ingvar Kamprad who has never relinquished his control of the company. Kamprad has confirmed the existence of the foundation and the information has already been added to the Swedish language Wikipedia article about IKEA. I therefore think that it would be relevant to update the Corporate Structure section. Björn Knutson (talk) 20:41, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

>In some languages (such as Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, Greek, Spanish and Korean), "IKEA" is pronounced something like [iˈke.a][citation needed], but in English it is /aɪˈkiː.ə/, similar to the word "idea."

It's pronounced like [iˈke.a] in probably ALL latin alphabet based languages BUT English. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.53.252.100 (talk) 10:58, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Not to mention Greek and Cyrillic. —Tamfang (talk) 20:09, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

That is the beauty of English, our idiosyncratic, non-conformist way of pronouncing nearly every letter, whilst being blissfully unaware that anyone else does it differently, since we anglophones find it impossible to learn any other language while simultaneously whining and muttering that some people speak ours fluently albeit imperfectly.

Ah, English. Varlaam (talk) 18:28, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

[edit] the Netherlands Antilles

the entire references can be removed as those traceable organizations are now in Curaçao and Sint Maarten which are a special municipalities of The Netherlands Markthemac (talk) 02:07, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Curaçao and Sint Maarten are not special municipalities of The Netherlands.--Patrick (talk) 23:28, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

They are, the Netherlands Antilles no longer exist.Iamthestig (talk) 11:48, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism section

This section is awful and needs serious pruning, and has been tagged as such for a long time. We need to integrate anything encyclopedic into the main text of the article, and the rest should just go. --John (talk) 08:02, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Talk:IKEA

Contents

[edit] Place of Registration

[edit] Third largest consumer of wood in the world?

[edit] Corporate structure

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] the Netherlands Antilles

[edit] Criticism section

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