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 | | One of Ingvar Kamprad’s more interesting ideas in recent times was to open up an Ikea store in Haparanda, a town perched right up by the Finnish border. |
 | | Yesterday in a blizzard he drove back again with his Ikea flatpacks, full of excitement that soon a Billy bookcase would be in his hall, a Sultan mattress would grace his bed and his kitchen would carry the Rationell name. |
 | | ‘Ikea’s arrival in Haparanda is bigger news than the Russian revolution,’ said Maksimovic, a 45-year-old teacher, as he loaded £540 worth of shopping into a trailer hitched to his Lada. |
| www.thelocal.se /blog/20070108/83 (520 words) |