IKEA Posted The Largest Sales Growth in The Retail Furniture Market!

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To nobody's surprise, well at least mine IKEA has posted the largest sales growth Nationally in 2007. IKEA Has not only taken a step back and corrected issues with their current furniture but made some serious changes for the future which are not linited to but include the use of organic ingredients in their food section. As the President of a Professional Furniture Assembly & Installation service I have seen the changes in their materials as well as the steps taken to correct issues that made assembly 10 times harder with the possibility of damaging the piece. When I first started this company I actually hated Ikea, but over the years have begun to love them compared to other small competitors you find in department stores that are for the most part JUNK!! It has came to the point with those department store bought furniture that unless it is a unique piece we tell the customer nicely we do not assemble these products. It actually boils down to basic math. Our industry n ormally charges 33.3% for assembly so if someone buys say a computer desk from ABC store and it cost $200.00 our charge would be about $66.00, but because the piece is so poorly made it takes the technician 4 hours to correct the mistakes, adjust the doors, drawers, and so forth so it is correct. So the technicians do not or will not do these jobs and the company doesn't make any money when and if they do. However, we rarelly see these issues with IKEA and that makes a big difference when we quote a price because we can look back on previous jobs to see how long it took John Doe to assemble this piece. There are better companies that sell RTA or Flatpack Furniture but 80% of our customers are IKEA customers. Here is a brief overview about the company that some of you might find intresteing,

How Swede it is. One of the world's top furniture retailers, IKEA International sells Scandinavian-style home furnishings and other housewares in about 270 stores in 35 countries. To cut transportation costs, IKEA uses flat packaging; customers assemble the products at home. The company designs its own furniture, which is made by about 1,300 suppliers in more than 50 countries. IKEA's stores feature playrooms for children and Swedish cuisine restaurants. It also sells by mail order and online. An acronym for founder Ingvar Kamprad and his boyhood home, Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd, IKEA began operating in Sweden in 1943. It is owned by Kamprad's Netherlands-based charitable foundation, Stichting Ingka.

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