IKEA's Social Work Group

IKEA Social Work Group is committed to protecting children's rights, so that children can have a healthy and safe childhood and receive high-quality education. Our main partners are two global children's rights organizations: UNICEF and Save the Children.

IKEA social work groups and their partners share common values, which are based on protecting children's rights and interests. IKEA Social Work Group is widely involved in various action plans to bring permanent changes to the lives of children and women in a comprehensive and integrated way; Committed to improving the health status of women and children, so that children have the opportunity to receive high-quality education, while enabling women to control their own destiny and create a better future for themselves and the community.

We have invested a lot in children's cause for a long time and made unremitting efforts in this regard, because we believe that we must work hard for the well-being of children and care for those children who need help most so that their wishes can be met.

The IKEA Social Work Group believes that with the accumulation of thousands of miles, we uphold the core values of IKEA and lead the pace of social work in a simple, economical, efficient and beneficial way.

IKEA Social Work Group takes South Asia, especially India, as a long-term focus, because children and women here need more care. IKEA has been operating here for many years and accumulated rich experience.

Shanghai Fuxi provides raw materials for many chain stores.

Including Starbucks Yoshinoya, furniture company IKEA is also among them.

According to @ China Business News, the processed food brands produced by Fuxi include McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Oriental White, Starbucks, Papa Johns, Yoshinoya, Dicos, 7- 1 1, Friday Restaurant, Burger King, Meiqile, Subway, IKEA, Wallace and Domino's. Three IKEA stores in Ghent, Belgium, Lille, France and Eindhoven, the Netherlands exploded one after another. After investigation, the explosion occurred in the same way, all caused by explosive devices hidden in the alarm clock in advance. Fortunately, no one died or caused great property damage.

Charlotte Lin Gelun, a spokeswoman for IKEA, said that two explosions occurred in the IKEA store in Ghent almost simultaneously before it closed on the evening of 30th. The store immediately evacuated customers and staff, and a security guard and a staff member suffered minor ear abrasions. The police have found an explosion alarm clock at the scene of the explosion, which is not a product sold by IKEA. The alarm clock is hidden near the boxed milk shelf on the first floor of the store. Lille's situation is similar to that of Eindhoven. Two explosions in Lille occurred in the dining center, with an interval of 15 minutes. Eindhoven's "alarm clock bomb" is hidden in the garbage. Lin Gelun said: "We have not received any threats. The sniffer dog searched three shops overnight and found no new danger. The three stores will still open as planned. "

It is said that Belgian police have begun to inspect six IKEA stores nationwide to prevent new explosions. Because the steel wire frame may break, scratch or stab children, the Consumer Product Safety Commission of the United States announced on 2011kloc-0/5 that IKEA, the world's largest household goods enterprise, will recall nearly 65,438+10,000 folding children's tents, and China is one of the recalled countries. The recalled children's tent is a cubic folding tent, model 90 192009 and brand Busa.

IKEA China official website has released relevant recall information, but did not mention the number of recalls in China. The exchange office of Shanghai IKEA Xuhui Store said that customers who have purchased the recalled products can get a full refund with the shopping invoice of the same day. 20 12 June, IKEA, a famous Swedish home building materials seller, was exposed to the existence of "overlord clause" in OEM, which caused heated discussion on the Internet. Ikea's home furnishing supplier, "use it if you want, and turn it off if you want".

substitute shoddy goods for good cargo

Houcheng Wood Industry is one of the suppliers of IKEA. The company mainly produces solid wood furniture, providing IKEA with poplar step stools, poplar bed legs, poplar rolling pins and other products. However, in recent years, the purchase price of IKEA is generally low. For example, the price of the poplar step stool in 99 yuan is only 42 yuan.

Li He, the head of Houcheng Wood Industry and a former IKEA purchasing employee, said: "Before suppliers quote, IKEA requires them to provide detailed cost analysis, and on this basis, only a profit margin of 5% is given. So in order to expand the profit margin, we will buy raw materials with lower prices. If the market price is 1 1,000 yuan, we will find raw material suppliers who can control the price around 800 yuan through our own channels. " Moreover, IKEA will limit the supply of products in terms of packaging strength, but there is still a certain range that can be "relaxed".

Ikea's low-cost acquisition strategy will lead to the widespread phenomenon of cutting corners in products provided by upstream enterprises, and some unqualified products will flow into the market under normal shipping conditions. For example, during his tenure, a domestic wood company replaced the vegetable oil of the designated brand of IKEA on the desktop with domestic vegetable oil, which was shoddy. Among them, many related products have entered the market, but IKEA has not recalled them.

An industry insider who did not want to be named said that the price difference of the same raw material factory would not exceed 10%, because the profit of the enterprise would be around 10%. As long as it exceeds this range, different materials must be used.

There is no quality inspection standard.

As a big seller in the home building materials industry, the quality problems caused by excessive cost deduction can not be ignored. However, IKEA does not strictly control the supply of goods. In order to shut down some suppliers, IKEA has some problems in the audit of supply quality, such as the sudden change of inspection methods and unclear inspection standards.

IKEA China suppliers responded that only some of them have implemented inspection standards, while others are still based on sampling inspection by IKEA employees. However, there is no specific answer to the proportion or standard of sample sampling. Before starting the third-party inspection process, the inspection is mainly based on IKEA's own spot checks. The so-called third-party inspection, IKEA has never known the relevant standards of suppliers. The testing standard of solid wood furniture should be very strict. Otherwise, it is difficult to define the process, material and even color difference, and different quality problems will occur in related products. When the media asked IKEA for relevant testing standards, it was rejected by IKEA on the grounds of "commercial competition secrets". 20 14 China On July 6th, foreign media reporters photographed China people sleeping on sofas or beds displayed in IKEA stores. It is reported that most of IKEA's consumers in China come from the middle class, including many customers who sleep in the store. In order to cater to the habits of consumers in China, shops do not stop similar behaviors, and even put signs on some furniture to invite customers to lie down and experience.