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Ikea to sell eco-homes for Olympics

20.10.11
Ikea is building its first British housing development in Stratford beside the Olympic Park, where it plans to turn Londoners into eco-families... more

Using laptops in bed 'can ruin relationships'

26.08.11
Londoners are putting their relationships in jeopardy by using laptops in bed, a new study claims... more

Ikea in running to build homes next to stadium

27.07.11
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is close to a deal to buy a vast site next to the Olympic Park that would rival the athletes' village and boost the legacy of the Games area... more

Ikea is stymied in stores plan but it will keep cutting prices

04.07.11
Ikea's chief executive says he is looking to open three superstores in London but is struggling to obtain planning consent... more

Selling furniture turns banker into Made man

21.04.11
When most people move house and struggle to find decent furniture, they spend a few weeks moaning about the parking policy at Ikea or the prices at John Lewis, then forget about it... more

Pick Me Up shows graphic design is a fertile ground

18.03.11
Pick Me Up allows you to see artists at work, try their techniques and buy original prints and drawings for little more than a mass-produced print in Ikea... more

London shoppers find there's more to Sweden than Ikea

20.01.11
Shoppers have finally realised that Scandinavia is about more than just Ikea and meatballs. West End retailers are reporting a big surge in sales of products from the region... more

City Spy: Lack of answers in BBC pensions row

14.10.10
City Spy has already reported one suggestion to fill the pension deficit — by using the profits of commercial arm BBC Worldwide, which makes more than £100 million a year. And staff like it ... more

City Spy: Why Tory table manners upset the Square Mile

13.10.10
Much grumbling in the boardrooms at the treatment of big business at this year’s Conservative Party conference corporate dinner... more

Inside David Cameron's place

06.10.10
Downing Street has been transformed — no longer Labour’s ‘unhappy house at No 10’, it now buzzes with the key figures of clan Cameron and the Coalition, as Anne McElvoy reports... more

IKEA buys Stratford site for housing development

12.07.10
Swedish furniture giant IKEA has made its first major foray into the UK property market by buying up a site next to the Olympic Park... more

Muscling in on church schools is just stealing

22.03.10
Philip Pullman is getting hate mail from Christians, apparently, warning that the royalty on his new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, will be “eternal damnation"... more

Comedian on the dole Sanderson Jones is new face of Ikea adverts

24.02.10
Struggling comedian on the dole has become the eccentric new face of Ikea ... more

How the 'four Cs' could have saved banks from a lot of grief

25.01.10
City Comment: On the day that President Obama delivered his knockout blow to the banks, I was meeting a senior City figure. We both admitted to being totally perplexed by the banks — how intelligent people should get it so hopelessly wrong... more

Loss-making Habitat set to change hands

03.12.09
Home furnishing chain Habitat could have new owners by next week... more

Dunelm soars to highs as it keeps up good news on sales

03.11.09
Dunelm, the poor consumer’s Ikea, is continuing to be Planet Retail’s darling of the recession ... more

Speaker defends £20,000 revamp of rent-free home

05.08.09
Commons Speaker John Bercow was forced to defend spending £20,000 on refurbishments to his grace-and-favour official residence... more

The Importance of Being outside with Earnest

09.07.09
Irina Brown's production of The Importance of Being earnest points up the play's modern interest in social shifts and transformations.... more

Ikea plans more job cuts and brake on growth amid crisis

07.07.09
The economic crisis will take a further hard toll on staff at Ikea worldwide, with massive further job cuts in the pipeline, the group’s billionaire founder said today ... more

Ikea stages Flatpack: the opera

03.06.09
It is normally the scene of real-life domestic dramas about buying self-assembly furniture. But tonight the Ikea store in Wembley will be staging an opera.... more

How to win in the art of negotiation

11.05.09
Speak softly, be flexible and try to disguise your reactions, as when it comes to negotiating, power is everything... more

5p shopping bag and chocolate Santa Claus...

08.05.09
A series of eyebrow-raising expenses claims by unnamed MPs are revealed today. They include claims for carrier bags, sweets and kitchen accessories - and even pet food and horse manure... more

Retro chic never looked so comforting

24.03.09
It's a brave writer who makes optimistic predictions in this climate, but there is a hint that, unlike the stock and housing markets, the antiques market may not be collapsing... more

Relative of Madrid bomber held over Amsterdam plot

13.03.09
Dutch police have arrested seven people suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in Amsterdam, including a relative of one of the attackers who died in the 2004 bombings in Madrid... more

An almost touching night at the theatre

03.03.09
A couple are bickering in a poky room. She is trying to assemble an Ikea shelving unit with a spoon with little success... more

Pepsi cashes in with the Yes You Can

14.01.09
Leading American brands are launching Barack Obama-inspired campaigns ahead of next week's presidential inauguration... more

Hit-and-run driver hunted

03.12.08
Police released a picture of an 11-year-old boy killed after being hit twice in a hit and run smash outside a branch of Ikea... more

Rosebys heads trio in administration

26.09.08
The High Street was in crisis as the collapse in consumer confidence, the drying-up of bank lending and the looming end-of-the-month quarterly rent payments sent three groups crashing into administration... more

Mamma Mia, Osteria Emilia is bellissima

06.08.08
The classic starters at Osteria Emilia are delicious. But a sinfully good torta di ciocolatta was the highlight of Larushka Ivan-Zadeh's meal.... more

How to eat like a Norse

03.10.07
There's a new wave of cool Scandinavian eateries that offer more than smoked herring and meatballs.... more


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