Bay Area city to get one of 8 new US Ikea stores
furniture empireIngka Group, Ikea Retail’s Dutch holding company, said in a statement Thursday that it hoped to open eight large stores and nine smaller “plan and order points” in America over the next three years. The new outlets would create 2,000 jobs, it added.
Ikea plan and order points are aimed at customers who want to speak with a consultant on how to design their homes, as well as place orders.The exact locations of the new US stores have not yet been decided, an Ingka spokesperson told CNN, though the company intends to build up its presence on the east and west coasts, and invest more in the south of the country.
Tolga Öncü, head of Ikea Retail, said the company saw “endless opportunities to grow” in the United States. “More than ever before, we want to increase the density of our presence in the US, ramp up our fulfillment capacities, and make our range even more relevant to local customers’ needs and dreams,” he said.— not covered by the €2 billion investment — are set to open in San Francisco, California, and Arlington, Virginia, over the summer.
Ingka also said it planned to use part of its bumper investment to modernize its existing US Ikea stores to enable them to send out more parcels.
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