Jun 28, 2008

IKEA is a Dutch company

I just found out IKEA is a Dutch company:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA

"INGKA Holding B.V. is the parent company for all IKEA Group companies, including the industrial group Swedwood, which manufactures IKEA furniture, the sales companies that run IKEA stores, as well as purchasing and supply functions, and IKEA of Sweden, which is responsible for the design and development of products in the IKEA range. INGKA Holding BV is wholly owned by Stichting INGKA Foundation, which is a non-profit foundation registered in Leiden in the Netherlands. Inter IKEA Systems B.V. in Delft, also in the Netherlands, owns the IKEA concept and trademark, and there is a franchising agreement with every IKEA store in the world."

I think that most of us think that it's a Swedish company.

This is why it's important to have a smart, friendly and predictable financial system. Important International companies are moving their HQ in countries like Netherlands because of that. Even some important companies that do their business in Romania are headquartered in Netherlands, like Rompetrol for example.

1 comments:

Vlad Alexa Mancini said...

"This is why it's important to have a smart, friendly and predictable financial system"

my view exactly , but either it is extremely hard to implement one , or the authorities are too dumb to care , i believe that is why they invented corporate government lobyists in the us

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