Ikea Paying $6.5 Million To East German Prisoners Forced To Make Their Furniture
IKEA will pay $6.5 million to a German government fund to compensate victims of forced labor in East Germany during the Cold War. Political and criminal prisoners were forced to produce IKEA furniture ...
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IKEA will pay 6 million euros to East German prisoners forced to build their furniture in landmark move
Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move campaigners ...
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Plato's Myths
For us, on the contrary, the term 'myth' denotes a false belief. Between the archaic notion of myth and ours stands Plato's. This volume is a collection of ten studies by eminent scholars that focus ...
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Philosophers justifying slavery
The Greek philosopher Plato thought similarly that it was right for the 'better' to rule over the 'inferior'. ...nature herself intimates that it is just for the better to have more than the worse ...
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Ikea’s Future-Proofing Strategy Depends On Understanding Consumers’ Emotional Needs
Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. Ikea celebrated its 80th anniversary last year, having grown to be the world’s largest furniture retailer, with a reported ...
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IKEA's brand new smart plug is now available – here's how much it costs
IKEA has launched its new smart plug in several countries worldwide, including the US and France. It has energy monitoring capabilities that allow users to keep track of power usage. We're not ...
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Plato's Charmides
Mouzala, Melina G. 2024. Soul as Principle in Plato’s Charmides: A Reading of Plato’s Anthropological Ontology Based on Hermias Alexandrinus on Plato’s Phaedrus. Philosophies, Vol. 9, Issue. 3, p. 77.
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Ikea starts buy-back scheme offering vouchers for old furniture
The secondhand areas in Ikea stores will be called Circular Hubs Ikea has launched its long-awaited furniture buy-back and re-sale scheme, in an attempt to reduce the number of products going to ...
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Ikea posts first drop in revenue since 2020 after cutting prices
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ikea spent more than €2bn last year on lowering the prices of some of its most popular furniture ...
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What is Plato’s Symposium, the classic book drawn into the Gender Queer culture wars?
Australian Catholic University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the ...
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IKEA calls for more Chinese stimulus measures
LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Swedish furniture retailer IKEA urged China on Thursday to deploy further stimulus, after the government announced a package of measures to reinvigorate an economy ...