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Ikea joins companies stopping operations in Russia, while Coca Cola to stay
Baltic News Network ^ | 3/4/2022 | BNN

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cocacola; cocacola4putin; putin; russia; war
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Coca Cola has decided to stay, however. It stated on Thursday, March 3, that it would continue operations in Russia.
1 posted on 03/04/2022 12:01:21 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

It’s the real thing.


2 posted on 03/04/2022 12:03:04 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Diabetes in a can.


3 posted on 03/04/2022 12:03:56 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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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.”


4 posted on 03/04/2022 12:03:56 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: marcusmaximus

Woka Cola. Not surprised.


5 posted on 03/04/2022 12:04:11 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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For once some good news. Good for coke.


6 posted on 03/04/2022 12:05:28 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Diabetes in a bottle.


7 posted on 03/04/2022 12:05:54 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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IKEA is the mainstay for that twit AOC who didn’t know what a garbage disposal was.


8 posted on 03/04/2022 12:06:30 PM PST by Gaffer
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Well, I’ve had my last Coke for a while.


9 posted on 03/04/2022 12:06:56 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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Next product, Coke Below Zero. For Siberia.


10 posted on 03/04/2022 12:08:10 PM PST by Rocky (The forces of tyranny expand inexorably to fill the space made available for their existence. )
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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.


11 posted on 03/04/2022 12:09:18 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Good for coke. I see no reason for a US company to interfere in this fight.


12 posted on 03/04/2022 12:11:49 PM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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Coke is dead to me......but I do thank them for this.....it’ll ensure I don’t drink their products anymore


13 posted on 03/04/2022 12:17:00 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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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.


14 posted on 03/04/2022 12:17:11 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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15 posted on 03/04/2022 12:20:36 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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Didn’t Coca-Cola boycott Georgia for enacting modest election-integrity reforms?


16 posted on 03/04/2022 12:24:11 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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The CEO of IKEA got elected Prime Minister of Sweden but he couldn’t
assemble his cabinet.


17 posted on 03/04/2022 12:25:35 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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IKEA wrote the Russian battle plan, that’s why it’s taking forever.


18 posted on 03/04/2022 12:27:25 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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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?


19 posted on 03/04/2022 12:29:25 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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Coca Cola’s new slogan: “Invasions go better with Coke.”


20 posted on 03/04/2022 12:31:41 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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