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IKEA likes to sell itself as a principled, sustainable furniture producer. But has its low-cost, high-volume business model meant that it has had to compromise environmental concerns for money? Peter Salisbury reports

IkeaHackers.net is a site about modifications on and repurposing of Ikea products. Hacks, as we call it here, may be as simple as adding an embellishment, some others may require power tools and lots of ingenuity.

Americans demand low prices and giant warehouse stores where they can buy anything they want. We may not like it, but big box retailers are a part of life.

The Swedish retailer's tongue-twisting Scandinavian product names can sometimes have racy meanings in other languages. In Thailand, some local linguists are toning down the translations.

Ikea changed the world of furniture forever by making a slightly lower quality product a lot cheaper. Flimsier material, some assembly required, and rock-bottom prices turned out to be something consumers were hungering for. Now Ikea has a compelling idea ...

Ikea's forthcoming Uppleva television-meets-entertainment center might be something of an underdog, but it has some unique selling points beyond mere Swedish style.

IKEA is the world's largest furniture store. In fact, the company is so big, it is estimated that around 10% of all Europeans alive today were conceived on an IKEA bed.