The American public service channel NPR draws attention to how the catalog was known for introducing the Swedish language to the world, as the department store's furniture followed a terminology with Swedish words and phrases.
The Canadian television channel CBC talks to a retail expert who explains that the catalog has an "iconic heritage" and compares the uproar when the lingerie brand Victoria Secret closed its paper catalog five years ago.
The British BBC takes the opportunity to recall the controversy that followed in 2012, when images of women were missing in a version distributed in Saudi Arabia.
The last Ikea catalog will be printed in 2021 in 40 million copies, writes Reuters. The largest was the Ikea catalog in 2016, when it was published in 200 million copies in 32 languages and in more than 50 markets, according to the furniture giant itself.