supposed to be four wheels only got two
it’s the place to go when you and your
partner wants an affordable piece of
build at your cell furniture that will
ultimately test the strength of your
relationship I have good taste in drapes
which I died on iwo jima and never met
you welcome to watchmojo.com Stallman
we’re counting down the five most
interesting facts that we could find
about the International home furnishings
giant IKEA I’m going back to those cute
Bowl I swear to God I will stab you
number five
IKEA furniture names are not just
gibberish the clips personal office unit
the hovertrax home X or bike or the
Johanna child’s sofa with the stream
green striped pattern in North America
at least many of us have a good time
poking fun at the funny sounding names
of IKEA products but IKEA actually has a
system for naming those things for
example sofas and coffee tables are
named after locations in Sweden IKEA is
home country and dining tables and
chairs are named after places in Finland
some furnishings are even titled after
occupations
like their bookcases and bathroom
furnishings are named after rivers and
lakes at least this is what many
websites report but I’m calling
shenanigans on this one some of these
claims line up sometimes like this
lovely sofa that is indeed named after a
place in Sweden but here are 20 tables
that are not named after a place in
Finland like they’re supposed to be but
after a place in Sweden and here’s a
bookshelf named not for an occupation
but for a place in Norway
maybe IKEA followed strict naming
guidelines at some point in the past but
as far as I can tell at the moment the
system is as complex as hey let’s give
everything to Scandinavian name well
that settles it everybody grab a broom
it’s shenanigan
number four IKEA is sensitive towards
the LGBTQ community usually while
socially progressive advertising
probably isn’t the first thing you think
of when you think of IKEA the company
has been both acclaimed and criticized
for its inclusion of gay and
transgendered people we were slightly
different taste I mean Steve’s more into
country it frightens me but at the same
time I have compassion in 1994 the
company ran what’s considered to be the
very first commercial featuring a gay
couple this was met with terrorist
threats towards the company forcing them
to pull the ad regardless they have
continued to include gay and lesbian
characters in their ad campaigns ever
since they’ve also featured transgender
individuals in their commercials and
while many of the ads are respectful
some are arguably less so like a tie ad
in 2013 that brought on accusations that
IKEA was perpetuating stereotypes one
mom where like a meal oh oh oh number
three part of Ikea is history is pretty
sketchy you know this place looks great
oh thanks man it’s all IKEA did the
whole place for 47 dollars while IKEA
has certainly cultivated a welcoming
image some of their work history has
been less than progressive absolutely
redecorated hide the past like they do
I’m just saying shiny beneath like in a
cure table in the past their items have
contained toxic chemicals like lead in
their drinking glasses and formaldehyde
in their wooden furniture if that wasn’t
enough IKEA had production facilities in
communist-controlled East Germany during
the 1980s and apportioned the employees
of these facilities were political
prisoners resulting in the use of forced
labor
so Islands prisoner I mean can I help
your value customer apparently the
practice of using forced East German
labor to reduce production costs was
widespread at the time IKEA seemed
fairly transparent about how they’ve
made changes to phase out toxic
chemicals in their products but the use
of slave labor is a little bit harder to
recover from but if you had a plan we
wouldn’t even be in this hellhole good
go wide with it go number two the IKEA
catalog is distributed more than the
Bible they think of us as a passe
archaic institution IKEA is bigger than
Jesus well maybe not but maybe
either way they certainly are popular
after all company uses a
1% of the world’s would supply every
year for their furniture and weight
wasn’t Jesus a carpenter came on akia’s
world-famous catalog accounts for 70% of
their marketing budget and is created in
their photo studio which is the largest
in Northern Europe now it’s hard to
pinpoint exactly how many Bibles are
distributed every year but it’s
estimated to be around 100 million the
IKEA catalog out distributes the Bible
by an ungodly amount more than 210
million copies are printed and
distributed on an annual basis and are
translated into 30 languages across 44
different countries number one IKEA is
technically a charitable foundation as a
forced labor wasn’t bad enough IKEA is
able to keep the prices so low because
they don’t pay nearly as much in taxes
as their competitors because technically
IKEA is a charity organization and the
second wealthiest in the world that its
corporate structure is incredibly
elaborate but in a nutshell IKEA is
owned by a private company Inca holding
which is owned by Dutch non-profit
stichting Inca Foundation which IKEA is
founder established in 1982 as a
tax-exempt organization since IKEA is
owned by a non-profit charitable
organization which are taxed far less
than for-profit corporations they’re
able to severely skimp on their taxes
reportedly they pay as little as three
point five percent tax on their profits
so what do you think about IKEA now
Akitas rise to go pick up newly single
vulnerable chicks do it’s positive
qualities outweigh its questionable ones
we’re more bigger than Jesus top tens
and the devil made me do it top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
I had it all even the glass dishes with
tiny bubbles and imperfections proof
that they were crafted by the honest
simple hard-working indigenous peoples
of wherever
it’s the place to go when you and your
partner wants an affordable piece of
build at your cell furniture that will
ultimately test the strength of your
relationship I have good taste in drapes
which I died on iwo jima and never met
you welcome to watchmojo.com Stallman
we’re counting down the five most
interesting facts that we could find
about the International home furnishings
giant IKEA I’m going back to those cute
Bowl I swear to God I will stab you
number five
IKEA furniture names are not just
gibberish the clips personal office unit
the hovertrax home X or bike or the
Johanna child’s sofa with the stream
green striped pattern in North America
at least many of us have a good time
poking fun at the funny sounding names
of IKEA products but IKEA actually has a
system for naming those things for
example sofas and coffee tables are
named after locations in Sweden IKEA is
home country and dining tables and
chairs are named after places in Finland
some furnishings are even titled after
occupations
like their bookcases and bathroom
furnishings are named after rivers and
lakes at least this is what many
websites report but I’m calling
shenanigans on this one some of these
claims line up sometimes like this
lovely sofa that is indeed named after a
place in Sweden but here are 20 tables
that are not named after a place in
Finland like they’re supposed to be but
after a place in Sweden and here’s a
bookshelf named not for an occupation
but for a place in Norway
maybe IKEA followed strict naming
guidelines at some point in the past but
as far as I can tell at the moment the
system is as complex as hey let’s give
everything to Scandinavian name well
that settles it everybody grab a broom
it’s shenanigan
number four IKEA is sensitive towards
the LGBTQ community usually while
socially progressive advertising
probably isn’t the first thing you think
of when you think of IKEA the company
has been both acclaimed and criticized
for its inclusion of gay and
transgendered people we were slightly
different taste I mean Steve’s more into
country it frightens me but at the same
time I have compassion in 1994 the
company ran what’s considered to be the
very first commercial featuring a gay
couple this was met with terrorist
threats towards the company forcing them
to pull the ad regardless they have
continued to include gay and lesbian
characters in their ad campaigns ever
since they’ve also featured transgender
individuals in their commercials and
while many of the ads are respectful
some are arguably less so like a tie ad
in 2013 that brought on accusations that
IKEA was perpetuating stereotypes one
mom where like a meal oh oh oh number
three part of Ikea is history is pretty
sketchy you know this place looks great
oh thanks man it’s all IKEA did the
whole place for 47 dollars while IKEA
has certainly cultivated a welcoming
image some of their work history has
been less than progressive absolutely
redecorated hide the past like they do
I’m just saying shiny beneath like in a
cure table in the past their items have
contained toxic chemicals like lead in
their drinking glasses and formaldehyde
in their wooden furniture if that wasn’t
enough IKEA had production facilities in
communist-controlled East Germany during
the 1980s and apportioned the employees
of these facilities were political
prisoners resulting in the use of forced
labor
so Islands prisoner I mean can I help
your value customer apparently the
practice of using forced East German
labor to reduce production costs was
widespread at the time IKEA seemed
fairly transparent about how they’ve
made changes to phase out toxic
chemicals in their products but the use
of slave labor is a little bit harder to
recover from but if you had a plan we
wouldn’t even be in this hellhole good
go wide with it go number two the IKEA
catalog is distributed more than the
Bible they think of us as a passe
archaic institution IKEA is bigger than
Jesus well maybe not but maybe
either way they certainly are popular
after all company uses a
1% of the world’s would supply every
year for their furniture and weight
wasn’t Jesus a carpenter came on akia’s
world-famous catalog accounts for 70% of
their marketing budget and is created in
their photo studio which is the largest
in Northern Europe now it’s hard to
pinpoint exactly how many Bibles are
distributed every year but it’s
estimated to be around 100 million the
IKEA catalog out distributes the Bible
by an ungodly amount more than 210
million copies are printed and
distributed on an annual basis and are
translated into 30 languages across 44
different countries number one IKEA is
technically a charitable foundation as a
forced labor wasn’t bad enough IKEA is
able to keep the prices so low because
they don’t pay nearly as much in taxes
as their competitors because technically
IKEA is a charity organization and the
second wealthiest in the world that its
corporate structure is incredibly
elaborate but in a nutshell IKEA is
owned by a private company Inca holding
which is owned by Dutch non-profit
stichting Inca Foundation which IKEA is
founder established in 1982 as a
tax-exempt organization since IKEA is
owned by a non-profit charitable
organization which are taxed far less
than for-profit corporations they’re
able to severely skimp on their taxes
reportedly they pay as little as three
point five percent tax on their profits
so what do you think about IKEA now
Akitas rise to go pick up newly single
vulnerable chicks do it’s positive
qualities outweigh its questionable ones
we’re more bigger than Jesus top tens
and the devil made me do it top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
I had it all even the glass dishes with
tiny bubbles and imperfections proof
that they were crafted by the honest
simple hard-working indigenous peoples
of wherever
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