IKEA Catalogue catalogue. An English language edition for the United Kingdom was launched February 2007 with a subscription of over 500,000. IKEA Catalogue The IKEA Catalogue (US spelling: IKEA Catalog; Swedish: Ikea-katalogen) is a catalogue published annually by the Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA. First published in Swedish in 1951, the catalogue is considered to be the main marketing tool of the company and, as of 2004, consumes 70% of its annual marketing budget. Worldwide, approximately 208 million copies of the catalogue were printed in fiscal year 2013, more than double the number of Bibles expected to be printed in the same
Catalogue of Women can be seen to engage with the "Catalogue". In his epyllion on the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Catullus alludes to the theoxeny that the proem to the "Catalogue" presented as a defining characteristic of the heroic age and to the epithalamium of the couple that was sung in a later book. In the "Aeneid" Vergil closes his catalogue of combatants with the swift female warrior Camilla, alluding to the Hesiodic account of Iphiclus' speed in "a remarkably subtle nod to tradition in the best Alexandrian style." Ovid picked up on Vergil's allusion in the "Metamorphoses" with his treatment of