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A Bad Week for … , March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

Ikea found itself embroiled in the scandal over tainted meat - with the row even stretching as far as its ever-crowded Hong Kong stores.

After meatballs, Ikea withdraws wiener sausages

28 Feb 2013

After withdrawing meatballs from stores across Europe, home furnishings giant Ikea yesterday said it would also pull wiener sausages made by the same supplier after its own tests confirmed "a few...

Ikea suspends sales of meatballs in Hong Kong

27 Feb 2013

Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has halted sales of its meatballs in Hong Kong, following similar moves elsewhere in the world, after overseas batches of the product were found to contain horse...

Ikea expands meatball recall to Hong Kong

26 Feb 2013

Swedish furniture giant Ikea, entangled in Europe’s widening meat scandal, withdrew meatballs from stores across Europe and in Asia, including Hong Kong, amid suspicions that they contained...

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Ikea halts meatball sales after horsemeat found

26 Feb 2013

Swedish furnishings giant Ikea says it is withdrawing meatballs from stores in 21 European countries amid concerns that they could contain horse meat.

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India likely to open door to Ikea

India is poised to approve furniture retailer Ikea's application to open stores as the nation seeks to lure more investment, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said.

"It should go through,"...

Ikea hits meatballs snag in India

Ikea's Swedish meatballs, gulped down in their thousands each weekend in store cafes around the world, are the subject of a bureaucratic tug-of-war in India that could hit local consumers' hopes...

Store de force: seconded nature

Living in Style celebrates the colours, contours and textures of tropical wood, writes Fox Daniels.

Ikea ‘regrets’ forced labour use in East Germany

Swedish furniture giant Ikea admitted on Friday that some of its suppliers in the 1970s used forced labour in former Communist East Germany and expressed regret that controls were less strict at...

The Week Explained: Ikea controversy

Inter Ikea Systems, that company that sells basic yet hard-to-assemble furniture, has suffered a double whammy in Saudi Arabia after airbrushing women out of pictures in its catalogues.

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Ikea blasted in Sweden for airbrushing women out of Saudi Arabia catalogue

The world's biggest furniture retailer has come under heavy criticism in its home market Sweden after it airbrushed women out of its latest catalogue in Saudi Arabia, raising questions about its...