Dutch furniture and household goods manufacturer IKEA, founded in Sweden, has extended its trademark rights in Russia until August 2033. This was reported by telegram channel Puree.
According to the information obtained by the channel, the company’s headquarters in the Netherlands applied to Rospatent on August 1, 2023. Approved February 2, 2024.
According to Mash, the Ikea package included a yellow-blue logo, a full list of the company’s services and the right to officially sell its products in Russia.
The channel suggested that this may be due to the fact that in the future it will be possible to return to the Russian market and thus no one will take over the name.
On March 3, 2022, the press service of the furniture and household goods manufacturer IKEA announced that the company has temporarily suspended its activities in Russia and Belarus. On June 15, they announced plans to lay off employees and sell all four factories in Russia. It was later reported that IKEA decided to liquidate one of its Russian structures, Ikea Purchasing Services Rus LLC.
It became like this in March 2023 knownIKEA’s last factory in Russia is in St. He said he sold it to the co-owner of decorative coatings manufacturer Slotex in St. Petersburg, Vadim Osipov.
Previously in Yekaterinburg seen Belarusian equivalent of IKEA.