How IKEA is furnishing customers with greener lifestyles

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Swedish retailer is building on €1.5bn green energy investment to bring sustainable living to more than a billion customers across the world

IKEA's unique brand of affordable style has forged a special place in the British home. Chances are, most people reading this will have visited one of its 19 UK stores. You may be sitting on an IKEA chair...

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