2014 IKEA Catalogue to be launched in Thailand on August 27

[soomak]

Ikea ? They are responsible of 4% of Earth forest devastation..... Sick....

Source ?

Forbes if i remember ; if not here , a good start and easy to find

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eco-nomics/2012/06/06/ikea-under-fire-for-clearing-ancient-russian-forest/

This is from that article about Ikea: http://www.forbes.com/sites/eco-nomics/2012/06/06/ikea-under-fire-for-clearing-ancient-russian-forest/

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To produce them, the company logs about 1,400 acres of forest annually.

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1,400 acres = 2.1 square miles = 5.6 square kilometers

Total deforestation per year = 56,000 square miles = 145,000 square kilometers (http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/urgentissues/rainforests/rainforests-facts.xml)

So Ikea is responsible for 0.004% of the total deforestation per year.

You were only off by a factor of 1,000...

And that's assuming all their wood comes from natural forests (I believe they use farmed forests for some of their wood).

[bkk_mike]

ikea thailand only in thai even no english version, very strange

It's even more ridiculous than that.

Got our Thai catalogue in the post, and it has a flyer saying

"(For our English speaking friends, please visit http://www.IKEA.co.th/IKEAcatalogue2014 for more information)"

But the website it sends you to is in Thai, and there doesn't appear to be a way of choosing English anywhere.

(I did find a way of switching to English by changing the URL it sends you to - there's a string th_TH, if you change it to en_TH, it works, which makes the fact there's no option on screen to change the language even more odd...)

[swissie]

Furniture is strictly farang-stuff. If farang leaves on business for a few weeks, they push the furniture against the wall to make room for sitting on the floor. If there is enough space left, they will park the pick-up truck in the living room.

If the farang comes home earlier than planned, the farang will once more be confronted with this "cultural-difference-thing". But as we know, all cultural differences can be bridged over easily with the help of a functioning ATM-card. The farangs ATM-card, that is.

Cheers.

[itchybum]

Awesome....what time will it be released, can we line up for it...sleep outside the store ?

[maxme]

Could change the food while they are at it. At least try to make an effort in warming it...