One chain, Lifestyle's Home Centre, which is controlled by Dubai's Landmark Group, has 12 home-furnishing superstores across India that sell most of the same items as IKEA, including sofas, bedroom sets, and kitchen and bathroom items.

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Little Bear and Franklin are catching up, with dozens of licensees making items like bedroom slippers.

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The court was told Rees crept into his victim's bedroom and stole the items from her bedside table at her home in Penlan, Swansea.

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Three intruders, who had set off the home security alarm, came into the walk-in closet in her parents' bedroom, apparently looking for items to steal from the Chula Vista, California, home.

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In the three bedroom apartment from which founder Sahil Baghla and his team run the business, they stock only 20 different items, half of which are different color t-shirts that get sent to the printer as the orders arrive.

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