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			<description><![CDATA[  Retailers are pressing ahead with tactics to seize shares in untapped countries and emerging markets.    ]]></description>
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			<title>The IKEA story</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When Swedish furniture house, IKEA contracted video editor, Sven-Gunnar Lennartsson, to create a film on the firm's heritage, he had to work with a lot of archived footage that was stored in different formats. We look at why Lennartsson turned to the EDIUS for help.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[After nearly 30 years at global furniture giant IKEA, Anders Moberg felt he wanted a new challenge.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Swedish furniture tycoon Thomas Lundgren is to divest his fortune into a school building project across the globe.]]></description>
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			<title>IKEA making moves toward electricals</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Customers may soon see electronics sold in stores as the Swedish furniture giant makes global expansion waves.]]></description>
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			<title>BoKlok below the belt for CABE</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Commission slams plan for Ikea prefabricated housing project, questioning how the scheme would fit in to the area.  ]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[With house prices in the UK booming, Swedish furniture manufacturer Ikea has developed an innovative low cost housing solution designed to help lower income families make their first step onto the property ladder. ]]></description>
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