Swedish furniture brand IKEA has created a peer-to-peer resale platform called IKEA Preowned as part of its aim to become a circular business by 2030. The secondhand marketplace, which allows people ...
I recently got rid of an Ikea cube storage unit I’d had for nearly a decade by participating in a time-honored New York tradition: I left it in my building lobby. By that evening, someone had taken it ...
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Rather than send those unwanted Kallax shelving units to landfill once you're done with them, you may soon be able to pocket some extra cash from Ikea. The furniture giant has decided to dip a toe ...
Ikea is planning to rival online furniture resale platforms such as Facebook Marketplace, eBay and Shpock with the launch of its new peer-to-peer marketplace. The Swedish giant is trialling a platform ...
How do you grow sales, when everyone who might want to buy your stuff, already is? Sell other people’s stuff. This appears to be the rationale behind last week's announcement that Ikea is considering ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ikea is taking on the likes of eBay, Craigslist and Gumtree with a peer-to-peer marketplace for customers to ...
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a statement from Dennis Wilmot and to recast an inaccurate headline. It was announced with great fanfare in the summer of 2016 that The ...
Swedish flatpack furniture retailer Ikea said Monday it had launched an online marketplace for its second-hand furniture, enabling customers to sell directly to each other. "We are testing a digital ...