Showing posts with label Complementary goods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Complementary goods. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 April 2008

Housing downturn hits Ikea


A good example of the inter-relationship between markets and complementary goods in this article about Ikea, the Swedish furniture manufacturer. The housing downturn is important for our business and we feel it quite a lot," Anders Dahlvig, the chief executive, said at the World Retail Congress in Barcelona. "Our growth is going down slightly in the US, the UK and Germany. The downturn is affecting us quite a lot."