Tag Archives: IKEA

IKEA is opening its Croydon store’s Swedish Food Market from today (Tuesday March 31), in a move to help feed vulnerable customers and key workers. The Swedish Food Market – which typically sells Swedish food items and is located after the tills in every IKEA – is opening to key …

IKEA UK & Ireland announced today (Thursday March 19) that, as a precautionary measure against the ongoing risk of COVID-19, it will temporarily close its stores to customers at 6pm on Friday (March 20). IKEA country retail manager and chief sustainability officer Peter Jelkeby said: “These are extraordinary times, and …

IKEA has opened the first IKEA virtual store on the Chinese online commerce company Alibaba’s Tmall site. The homeware giant said the partnership enables it to ‘become more accessible for the many people in China and allows IKEA to test and learn how to meet customers in a new way’. …

IKEA UK has announced the proposed closure of its Coventry store in summer 2020. The West Midlands branch – one of 22 IKEA stores in the UK – was built in 2007 in the city centre and is one of the homeware giant’s earliest examples of testing a new format …

IKEA is expanding its TaskRabbit home assembly service to six new areas. Launching in Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Gateshead, Southampton and Exeter at the end of this month, TaskRabbit will be available in a total of 27 locations throughout the UK. IKEA’s relationship with TaskRabbit aims to help customers with their …

IKEA UK plans to open a new small store format at Hammersmith in West London. Due to launch in Spring 2021, the shop will sell the brand’s home furnishing range, with all products available to buy from the store for home delivery, and over 2,000 home furnishing accessories available to …

IKEA Group is investing Euro 200 million to speed up its work to become a ‘climate positive’ business. The funds will be used to transform the homeware chain’s supply chain into using 100% renewable energy (electricity, heating, cooling and other fuels) by 2030, by working in collaboration with direct suppliers; …

IKEA has announced that a highly-anticipated rug designed by Louis Vuitton’s creative director in collaboration with the Swedish homeware giant is available to buy this morning (Friday May 31). The “KEEP OFF” slogan rug, designed by Virgil Abloh, is priced at £400 and is only available to purchase online on …

IKEA has appointed Peter Jelkeby as country retail manager to lead the UK and Ireland business of the Swedish homeware giant. He succeeds Javier Quiñones, who joins IKEA USA as country retail manager. Swedish-born Peter is returning to IKEA following a career of over 20 years with the company in …

IKEA UK’s newest full-sized store, which opened at Greenwich in south-east London on February 7, has achieved an ‘Outstanding’ BREEAM UK New Construction certification: an accolade held by just 320 buildings around the world. IKEA Greenwich was designed and built to reach the highest BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment …