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
Index (retailer) closed all its Index branches in April 2005. Of these, 33 were sold to GUS plc, and around 800 Index employees were transferred to Argos. Argos also acquired the rights to Index.co.uk and the Index brand. Index (retailer) Index was a catalogue retailer in the United Kingdom, that was owned by Littlewoods from 1985 until 2005. Many Index stores were attached to Littlewoods stores. It was a well known retailer in the 1980s and the 1990s, but after sales began to decline in the 2000s, its popularity became disputable and it started losing many customers to its rival, Argos. During