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According to the Times of India, the Indian government will prohibit IKEA from selling food and, oddly, from providing financing to its domestic suppliers.
FORBES: IKEA In India: Heading Into Untapped Retail Terrain
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She also said that two weeks ago Ikea tested a range of frozen food products, including meatballs, and found no traces of horse meat.
NPR: Horse Meat Found In Ikea's Swedish Meatballs
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Food is not the only way IKEA connects with its local audience to compete with well run local competitors.
FORBES: IKEA Is A World-Wide Wonder
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Inspectors working for Czech food regulator SVS discovered the tainted products at the IKEA store in the city of Brno, 200 kilometers east of Prague.
WSJ: IKEA Meatballs Pulled After Horse-Meat Traces Found
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Last week Ikea withdrew a batch of frozen meatballs from sale in the food section of stores in the UK, and other European countries, after tests in the Czech Republic found traces of horsemeat in those products.
BBC: Horsemeat scandal: Four new products test positive
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Ikea said it was "committed to serving and selling high quality food that is safe, healthy and produced with care for the environment and the people who produce it".
BBC: Ikea store front
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Ikea has withdrawn a batch of frozen meatballs from sale in the food section of stores in the UK, and other European countries, after tests in the Czech Republic found traces of horsemeat.
BBC: Ikea store front
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You're standing at a bus-stop, the adverts come to life, you're looking at menu, you can see the food, instruction manuals can show you how to put the Ikea table together.
BBC: Aurasma: Augmented reality future or forgettable fun?
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Ikea's trademark blue-and-yellow stores typically feature a restaurant that serves traditional Swedish food, including meatballs served with boiled or mashed potatoes, gravy and lingonberry jam.
NPR: Horse Meat Found In Ikea's Swedish Meatballs
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Ikea insisted that it had not found any horsemeat during in-house tests on its own range of food products, carried out two weeks ago, but said new tests would now be carried out.
BBC: Horsemeat found in Ikea meatballs in Czech Republic