MEGA shopping malls will remain open.
From March 4, the suspension of the work of the Swedish furniture concern IKEA will begin.
The company officially announced this in its press release, confirming that all Ingka Group stores in Russia and Belarus will be closed.
At the same time, MEGA shopping centers remain open in Russia, but IKEA stores will suspend work.
This is reported in the company’s press release.
“Inter IKEA suspends all production that IKEA Industry conducts in the Russian Federation. This also means that all deliveries from all our Russian subcontractors to IKEA Industry facilities have been suspended,” IKEA writes.
15 thousand people who work for IKEA will be hit. The company promised to keep them income and employment in the future. Support will be provided to both employees and their families.
In addition, IKEA and the IKEA Foundation donate more than 400 million Swedish kronor to help refugees from Ukraine. This is $41 million.
Online sales in stores will be stopped as early as March 4, 2022. Restrictions will last until May 31.
Earlier, Nike closed all its stores in Russia. Mitsubishi laid off employees of 141 service centers. The day before, ASOS stopped shipping its products to Russia. Announced the suspension of activities in the Russian Federation and Škoda.
On Thursday, March 3, Volkswagen announced that it had stopped production in Russia, deliveries to the country are immediately stopped.
In response to the sanctions, Russia stopped supplying rocket engines to the United States manufactured by NPO Energomash.
This was announced by the head of the state corporation “Roscosmos” Dmitry Rogozin on the air of the TV channel “Russia 24”.
As Topnews wrote earlier, experts predicted that due to sanctions, supplies from some countries will be replaced by products from others.
So, coffee, tea, cocoa and citrus fruits will be imported from countries that did not support anti-Russian sanctions. Now importers are urgently rebuilding their work.