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Top 100 company Ikea surprised all of its U.S. work force with shiny new bicycles as a holiday time thank you, according to a story on the CNN Money website.<\/p>\n

The gift of silver mountain bikes “is our way of saying, \u2018Thanks Ikea coworkers for being strongly committed to working together,'” Ikea U.S. President Mike Ward said in a statement.<\/p>\n

That amounts to 12,400 bikes. As befits Ikea, the CNN story said, some assembly is required.<\/p>\n

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Top 100 company Ikea surprised all of its U.S. work force with shiny new bicycles as a holiday time thank you, according to a story on the CNN Money website.<\/p>\n

The gift of silver mountain bikes “is our way of saying, \u2018Thanks Ikea coworkers for being strongly committed to working together,’” Ikea U.S. President Mike . . . → Read More: Ikea Gives Bicycles to all its U.S. Employees<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casual-furniture","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nIkea Gives Bicycles to all its U.S. Employees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ikea Gives Bicycles to all its U.S. Employees\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/pipefinepatiofurniture.com\/blog\/casual-furniture\/ikea-gives-bicycles-to-all-its-us-employees\" \/>\n<meta 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