IKEA Germany
| IKEA Germany GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
| management | Dennis Balslev |
| Number of employees | 18,299 |
| sales | 5.007 billion euros |
| Branch | Furniture trade |
| Website | www.ikea.com |
| As of August 31, 2018 | |
The IKEA Germany GmbH & Co. KG is a German company in the furniture industry, which as at July 2017 nationwide 53 IKEA operates -Einrichtungshäuser. The company's headquarters are in Munich , the administration is in Hofheim am Taunus between Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main .
The company is part of the IKEA group ( INGKA Holding BV , Leiden , Netherlands ). In the 2012 financial year, around 14 percent (3.88 billion euros) of total group sales came from Germany.
Locations
The first IKEA furniture store in Germany opened on October 17, 1974 in Eching near Munich . In 1987 there were 18 houses: Berlin-Spandau , Kaltenkirchen , Stuhr , Großburgwedel , Löhne (closed on March 31, 1996), Kassel , Dorsten , Kamen , Kaarst , Cologne-Godorf , Walldorf , Hofheim am Taunus , Bous , Fürth , Stuttgart , Freiburg im Breisgau and Eching .
Since December 13, 2010, the second largest branch in the world has been located in Berlin-Lichtenberg on Landsberger Allee with a gross floor area of around 43,000 m². The furniture stores in Oldenburg and Rostock are the first in the world to have a glass extension for the extended plant area.
On March 14, 2014 a new furniture store was opened in Lübeck-Dänischburg , which follows a new concept in Germany. So here, in one unit with the furniture store, the LUV shopping center and a hardware store built on the same site were created.
A third furniture store was opened in Hamburg on June 30, 2014 . In the Altona district there is now the second IKEA department store in the city center, following the one in Essen that opened in 1993. In order to avoid excessive traffic chaos, you can borrow cargo bicycles here - also a novelty - to transport the goods home in an environmentally friendly manner. Since there are four S-Bahn and ten bus lines in the immediate vicinity of this furniture store , it is - according to IKEA - "an ideal location".
The 50th German IKEA store opened on August 13, 2015 in Kaiserslautern .
In September 2017 there were 53 IKEA furniture stores in Germany in Berlin (three branches), Bielefeld , Braunschweig , Bremerhaven , Chemnitz , Dortmund , Dresden , Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Eching , Erfurt , Essen , Frankfurt am Main , Freiburg im Breisgau , Fürth , Gersthofen , Großburgwedel , Hamburg (three branches), Hanau , Hanover , Hofheim am Taunus , Kaarst , Kaiserslautern , Kamen , Kassel , Kiel , Koblenz , Cologne (two branches), Leuna , Lübeck , Ludwigsburg , Magdeburg , Mannheim , Oldenburg , Osnabrück , Regensburg , Rostock , Saarlouis , Schönefeld , Siegen , Sindelfingen , Stuhr , Taufkirchen , Ulm , Walldorf , Wetzlar , Wuppertal and Würzburg . There is also a pick-up and ordering station in Ravensburg and a pick-up station in Leipzig.
On October 12, 2017, the most sustainable IKEA store in the world to date was opened in Kaarst. This is the new building of the existing branch.
A new branch is under construction in Karlsruhe and is due to open in 2020. The construction of the existing branches is planned in Essen and Eching.
Due to a new corporate strategy, the openings planned for 2019 and 2020 in Memmingen and Nuremberg will be stopped for the time being and new concepts will be reviewed. A planned building in Bottrop was not realized.
In the forty-year history of IKEA Germany, ten branches - in Kaltenkirchen , Stuhr , Löhne , Dorsten , Nuremberg , Fürth , Kamen , Kassel , Stuttgart , Bous and Kaarst - have been closed and replaced by furniture stores at other locations, with the branches in Kamen and Fürth have each moved to a new building on the opposite side of the street. The same was done with the tenth branch, which in Eching near Munich has moved only a few 100 meters further. The furniture store in Essen was opened for the Dorsten branch and is the first German store to be built in the immediate city center. In July 2010 the furniture store Düsseldorf-Reisholz opened its doors after a 13 month renovation period. Its 7,500 m² exhibition space is the world's largest among the Ikea branches. In October 2017, the new building of the smallest branch in Kaarst replaced it.
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IKEA Germany branches  Existing  Planned |
| Furniture store | opening | Sales area m² |
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| Augsburg (Gersthofen) | 2006 | 31,000 |
| Berlin-Lichtenberg | 2010 | 43,000 |
| Berlin-Spandau | 1979/2002 | 36,300 |
| Berlin-Tempelhof (Berlin-Schöneberg) | 2003 | 37,000 |
| Berlin-Waltersdorf (Schönefeld) | 1993 | 25,000 |
| Bielefeld | 1996/2002/2017 | 29,000 |
| Braunschweig | 1993/2002 | 27,000 |
| Brinkum | 1976 | 21,700 |
| Bremerhaven | 2015 | 18,000 |
| Chemnitz | 1994 | 20,400 |
| Dortmund | 1999/2007 | 29,500 |
| Dresden | 2001 | 27,500 |
| Duisburg | 2005 | 31,700 |
| Dusseldorf | 1999 | 39,000 |
| Erfurt | 2005 | 28,200 |
| eat | 1993 | 22,800 |
| Frankfurt | 2007 | 35,000 |
| Freiburg | 1981/2007 | 26,800 |
| Großburgwedel | 1976/2000 | 24,600 |
| Halle / Leipzig (Leuna) | 1994 | 23,100 |
| Hamburg-Altona | 2014 | 18,000 |
| Hamburg-Moorfleet | 2002 | 35,600 |
| Hamburg-Schnelsen | 1989 | 31,200 |
| Hanau | 1997 | 22,300 |
| Hanover EXPO Park | 2006 | 36,000 |
| Kaarst | 1979 | 13,000 |
| Kaarst (new building) | 2017 | 25,000 |
| Kaiserslautern | 2015 | 24,000 |
| Came | 1978/2004 | 29,100 |
| Karlsruhe | 2020 (under construction) | 25,500 |
| kassel | 1980/1994 | 25,300 |
| Kiel | 2002 | 29,300 |
| Koblenz | 2006 | 29,300 |
| Cologne Am Butzweilerhof | 2009 | 42,700 |
| Cologne-Godorf | 1975/2006 | 36,900 |
| Lübeck | 2014 | 25,500 |
| Ludwigsburg | 1998/2008 | 32,200 |
| Magdeburg | 2017 | 18,000 |
| Mannheim | 2004 | 34,600 |
| Munich-Brunnthal (Taufkirchen) | 2003 | 37,700 |
| Munich-Eching (Eching) | 1974/2001 | 32,300 |
| Nuremberg / Fürth (Fürth) | 1981/2004 | 34,600 |
| Oldenburg | 2007 | 37,000 |
| Osnabrück | 2005 | 28,000 |
| regensburg | 2001 | 24,300 |
| Rostock | 2007 | 28,000 |
| Saarlouis | 1981/2007 | 24,600 |
| Wins | 2005 | 24,900 |
| Sindelfingen | 1997/2008 | 34,300 |
| Ulm | 2003/2006 | 30,700 |
| Wallau (Hofheim am Taunus) | 1977/2001 | 34,300 |
| Walldorf | 1981 | 25,000 |
| Wetzlar | 2017 | 18,000 |
| Wuppertal | 2016 | 25,500 |
| Wurzburg | 2009 | 36,000 |
logistics
An important sales location is the world's largest distribution warehouse in Salzgitter until 2005 . 240,000 pallet spaces are available here. It was surpassed by the goods distribution center in Dortmund, which has been gradually expanded since 2003. Here, IKEA created a capacity of 430,000 pallet spaces on a floor area of around 200,000 square meters for 135 million euros on a former coal mine in Ellinghausen on the Dortmund-Ems Canal . In the first construction phase, three new halls were built (Hall Customer Distribution Center (CDC), European Low Flow (ELF) and Activity Dortmund (ADO)). The ELF is about 750 by 180 meters and was opened on September 21, 2007. In the second construction phase planned for autumn / winter 2007/2008, the ELF will first be copied in mirror image on a southern open space. In the future, the construction of the ADO II is also planned according to the same principle.
All European IKEA furniture stores are supplied with small-volume articles and activity goods from Dortmund. Direct sales over the Internet to Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands are also handled via the warehouse in Dortmund. It is also the location of IKEA IT and IKEA Trading .
IKEA products are sometimes transported from Sweden to Dortmund by rail . On June 27, 2002, the first IKEA Rail AB self-operated train drove from Älmhult to Duisburg . At the end of 2003, IKEA announced the liquidation of IKEA Rail AB . As a reason, IKEA cited a concentration on the core business. In the meantime, combined transport train connections between Norrköping and Wanne-Eickel operated several times a week by Hector Rail and DB Cargo are used.
IKEA Germany in the media
In collaboration with Arte , Eikon shot a five-part documentary soap about the construction of the IKEA branch near Erfurt in 2005 . Jeanette Eggert directed the ZDF commissioned production Der Osten möbelt auf .
The announcement by IKEA Germany that it will sell prefabricated houses in Germany in the future (there are already around 4,000 IKEA prefabricated houses in Northern Europe and Great Britain) caused a lot of media coverage. Because of the great demand, the lot decided on the first buyers.
criticism
The collective agreements in retail for IKEA Germany have been in effect since 2010. This resolves one of the points of criticism.
Exploitation of tax loopholes
IKEA is accused of aggressively exploiting tax loopholes in Germany, for example by taking out loans from the IKEA group abroad. This means that the interest on the debt can be deducted from taxes, resulting in savings of around 30 million euros per year. Furthermore, license fees are due for the individual IKEA products (around 60 million euros per year), which have to be paid to a foreign IKEA company in the Netherlands, where they are also taxed; as a result, the German tax authorities miss out on tax revenues. According to Lorenz Jarass , the group was able to reduce its tax burden from just under 40 percent to around 15 percent.
Supervision of employees and obstruction of works councils
In April 2008, the ZDF magazine Frontal21 reported that sick, elderly and single parents at IKEA are being put under pressure and works councils are being severely hindered in their work. The thin staffing levels lead to physical collapse of employees, and part-time workers are expected to have total flexibility with poor pay. According to research by the television magazine, IKEA employees are monitored with cameras without the consent of the works council and illegal logs are made about the health of employees. Superiors put massive pressure on works councils.
In a press release on April 29, 2008, IKEA commented on the allegations and accused Frontal 21 magazine of taking up events that had already happened several years ago. IKEA has already drawn personnel consequences in these cases. In addition, Thomas Ossowicki, Deputy Chairman of the General Works Council, was quoted as saying that at IKEA, contentious issues are resolved in a constructive and joint dialogue.
Corruption in the IKEA construction department
For more than 20 years, employees in the IKEA construction department took bribes from numerous contractors and distributed construction contracts for them. On August 16, 2005, the company's premises were ransacked by the prosecutor's office after an employee gave evidence. In the subsequent trials at the Frankfurt am Main regional court , several prison sentences and fines were imposed. IKEA then established anti- corruption measures in the company.
Use of unsustainable wood
The West German Broadcasting has in his series brand check produced a series about IKEA 2012th In this it was shown, among other things, that IKEA, despite alleged sustainable production, wood from areas endangered by overexploitation such as z. B. Siberia used, possibly even partly from illegal logging. In a further brand check in 2014, these allegations were not repeated, but the market check in SWR 2019 again raised allegations in the context of the purchase of forest areas by Ikea Resource Independence Forest Assets (IRI Forest Assets) in Romania . This is where Ikea gets 8 percent of its wood needs and is the largest private forest owner with over 30,000 hectares . When asked by SRF and SWR , IKEA confirmed that Romania was a “high-risk country” for the wood industry and property disputes existed, but that all laws were complied with and only certified wood was used.
Production in the GDR
Until 1990, IKEA Germany's suppliers were also combines of the GDR, which in turn also used the labor of prisoners. The inter- zone trade in IKEA had been kept secret for decades, and the Swedish news magazine Uppdrag Granskning ( Sveriges Television ) only brought the facts to the public in 2012.
Return of an animal welfare award
At the end of November 2017, IKEA Germany, as in eight other countries, had to return an animal welfare award because it had not met its voluntary commitments to improve broiler chickens. The company, which is one of the largest restaurant operators in Germany, received the “Good Chicken Award” in 2011 from the animal welfare organization Compassion in World Farming for its commitment to implement several animal welfare criteria within five years.
eMobility
Since 2015, IKEA has offered the option of charging electric vehicles at numerous locations . There are two charging stations at each location, each with connections for CHAdeMO , CCS and Type 2 available free of charge. All stations should be fully expanded by 2020.
Wind farms
IKEA Germany operates several wind parks u. A. in Zettingen Hambuch (6 systems with 13.8 MW), Winterspelt (6 systems with 12 MW) and Oberende (5 systems with 4.25 MW).
Notes on annual financial statements
- IKEA Group. Retrieved December 19, 2012 .
- INGKA HOLDING BV, Leiden, in the eBundesanzeiger, published on August 31, 2012
- IKEA Germany. Retrieved December 19, 2012 .
literature
- Tobias Wunschik: prison goods for the class enemy. Prisoner work in the GDR, east-west trade and state security (1970–1989). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-35080-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c IKEA locations ikea.com , July 22, 2017.
- ↑ Manfred Köhler: Ikea is toying with a new building in Darmstadt. In: faz.net . January 23, 2013, accessed June 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Manuel Bewarder : Blue and yellow shopping fever at minus five degrees. In: Welt Online , December 14, 2010.
- ↑ IKEA comes to Oldenburg - laying of the foundation stone for the 42nd furniture store in Germany ( Memento of May 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Press release at ikea.com
- ↑ The Ikea boom in Germany is waning , Handelsblatt of October 28, 2013
- ↑ 50th Ikea store opened in Kaiserslautern
- ↑ a b c "We will continue to grow in the future, but differently" IKEA wants to be closer to the city centers. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Düsseldorf Ikea is now the largest in the world. In: RP Online , July 9, 2010, accessed October 18, 2011.
- ↑ ikea.com - Expansion in Germany, accessed on July 22, 2017
- ↑ Expansion in Germany - IKEA. In: www.ikea.com. Retrieved December 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Expansion in Germany - IKEA. In: www.ikea.com. Retrieved December 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Message IKEA Rail started . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 8–9 / 2002, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 361.
- ↑ a b Message IKEA Rail at the end . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 12/2003, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 554.
- ↑ Gunnar Herrmann, Stefan Weber, Marc Widmann: And now the whole house. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 18, 2010.
- ↑ Collective agreements will apply to Ikea employees in the future. ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Verdi , March 2, 2010.
- ↑ Andreas Orth, Kim Otto, Volker Happe: The impossible furniture store: IKEA's completely legal tax tricks. In: Monitor via jarass.com , June 30, 2005 ( PDF ; 34 kB).
- ↑ Big Brother also listened to Ikea. In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 29, 2008.
- ↑ OPINION Frontal 21, Tuesday April 29, 2008, 9 p.m. In: ikea.com .
- ^ Corruption in Germany. ( Memento from September 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: ARD
- ↑ [Brand check broadcast only available on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wUBY-KU3eo ]
- ↑ RP ONLINE: Cologne: WDR showed the brand check Ikea of the RP readers. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Arno Frank: ARD brand check on Ikea: Scandals from the Grabbelkiste . In: Spiegel Online . August 25, 2014 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 30, 2019]).
- ↑ a b Market check checks IKEA. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Michael Gassmann: Large property: Ikea is putting its clean image at risk . October 4, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed September 30, 2019]).
- ↑ Andrew Müller: Forest expert on new climate study: "Afforestation alone is not enough" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 7, 2019, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed September 30, 2019]).
- ↑ Destroyed CO2 storage - Europe's last primeval forests fall victim to the timber mafia. July 3, 2019, accessed September 30, 2019 .
- ↑ GDR forced laborers are said to have produced Billy. In: Spiegel Online , April 30, 2012.
- ↑ Elk test for Ikea. In: Spiegel Online , May 4, 2012.
- ↑ Ikea is said to have used East German forced laborers. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 30, 2012.
- ↑ Good Chicken Award in Compassion in World Farming Food Business, accessed December 21, 2017
- ↑ Jack Alexander: IKEA withdraws its commitment to gold standard welfare for chickens. In: The Ecologist . November 30, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Philip Lymbery: IKEA withdraws commitment to higher welfare chicken. In: Compassion Blog. November 24, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
- ↑ IKEA supplies all 50 locations in Germany with triple chargers
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
