This will imply that the enterprise will cease promoting Marabou and Daim merchandise within the UK, candies which might be in style in Ikea’s native Sweden.
Ikea doesn’t promote Cadbury’s, so it is not going to affect that model.
It comes as dozens of Scandinavian corporations have reduce ties with Mondelez, which makes among the area’s hottest snacks, over the tax it paid to the Russian authorities final 12 months.
But Ikea insisted that the transfer was not in relation to the boycott.
“Ikea has for some years been focusing on Ikea-branded confectionery products and further developed its own chocolate and candy products,” a spokesperson for Ikea mentioned.
“The current Ikea range includes some different chocolate products from suppliers owned by Mondelez.
“Ikea will phase out the Mondelez products from the Ikea range.”
Scandinavian corporations have taken motion after Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) in May labelled Mondelez an “international sponsor of war”.
The NACP mentioned that in 2022, Mondelez’s Russian subsidiary paid round 61 million US {dollars} (£48 million) to the Russian Government in taxes. It made 339 million {dollars} (£267 million) of revenue within the nation.
Mondelez has three factories in Russia, the place it produces Oreo cookies, TUC crackers, Alpen Gold and Milka, amongst different in style objects.
Companies are blacklisted in the event that they haven’t introduced their withdrawal from the Russian market or in the event that they fail to take significant measures to cut back their operations in Russia
The firm’s manufacturers within the UK embody Maynard’s Bassetts, Philadelphia and Ritz, Belvita, Toblerone, and naturally, Cadbury’s.
In a letter printed by Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper, Agiya Zagrebelska, head of NACP’s sanctions division, mentioned earlier this month: “Our agency is consistent in how we decide who to blacklist.
“Companies are blacklisted if they have not announced their withdrawal from the Russian market or if they fail to take meaningful measures to reduce their operations in Russia.”
She added: “All taxes paid by your subsidiary Mondelez Rus are contributing to Putin’s war chest, funding additional waves of bombs against us.
“We suffer from unstable supply of electricity, water, internet, and worst of all, the loss and injury of family and friends in the war.”
The boycott in Scandinavia has been joined by native authorities in a few of Sweden’s largest cities, the nation’s prepare operator SJ, airways SAS and Norwegian Air, and the Norwegian Football Association, amongst many others.
Two weeks in the past, Mondelez mentioned that it might make its Russian enterprise stand-alone with a self-sufficient provide chain.
But Ms Zagrebelska mentioned that the promise was not sufficient to take away Mondelez from her listing.
It’s our understanding that IKEA has publicly confirmed that this resolution follows a long-term technique associated to the event of its personal confectionery merchandise underneath the Ikea model
Ukraine’s worldwide sponsor of conflict listing additionally contains French cosmetics firm Yves Rocher, shopper large Procter & Gamble, FTSE 100 packaging firm Mondi, and Chinese automobile firm Geely.
The withdrawal of Mondelez merchandise from Ikea cabinets in Scandinavia was reported final week.
A spokesperson for Mondelez mentioned: “It’s our understanding that IKEA has publicly confirmed that this decision follows a long-term strategy related to the development of its own confectionery products under the Ikea brand.”
