Posted on 03/04/2022 12:01:21 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Nordic furniture retailer Ikea has joined other large European and American businesses to stop their operations in Russia and Belarus over the war against Ukraine, Swedish news portal TheLocal.se reports.
The decision announced on Thursday, March 3, is significant as it affects close to 15,000 employees, 17 stores and three production sites.
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Coca Cola has decided to stay, however. According to Russian state news agency TASS, Coca-Cola HBC Russia owns 10 plants for the production of soft drinks and juices in such cities as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Rostov region, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Vladivostok. It stated on Thursday, March 3, that it would continue operations in Russia.
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It’s the real thing.
Diabetes in a can.
Ikea is very very symbolic for Russians and the middle class values that emerged in recent decades...
It’s like a social pact...”Okay Putin, we’ll put up with your corruption...your oligarchs...but leave us our Ikea.”
Woka Cola. Not surprised.
For once some good news. Good for coke.
Diabetes in a bottle.
IKEA is the mainstay for that twit AOC who didn’t know what a garbage disposal was.
Well, I’ve had my last Coke for a while.
Next product, Coke Below Zero. For Siberia.
I like coke.
It’s refreshing.
It’s only diabetes in a can if someone actively makes it so by many actions, including but not limited to drinking it.
If one has a predisposition, one should completely refrain from drinking it and/or other similar beverages.
Good for coke. I see no reason for a US company to interfere in this fight.
Coke is dead to me......but I do thank them for this.....it’ll ensure I don’t drink their products anymore
Well...no Ikea crap for a while. I guess the war will last till Ikea products break and have to be replaced....like next week.
Didn’t Coca-Cola boycott Georgia for enacting modest election-integrity reforms?
The CEO of IKEA got elected Prime Minister of Sweden but he couldn’t
assemble his cabinet.
IKEA wrote the Russian battle plan, that’s why it’s taking forever.
Coca Cola stayed with Adolph...
Coca Cola stayed with Hirohito...
Coca Cola stayed with FDR...
Coca Cola stayed with LBJ...
Coca Cola stayed with Obama...
Coca Cola stayed with Biden...
Coca Cola stayed with Trudeau...
Coca Cola stayed with Xi...
All, except Hirohito, evil marxist scum...
Why wouldn’t Coca Cola stay with Vlad, a former communist?
Coca Cola’s new slogan: “Invasions go better with Coke.”
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