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IKEA's New Europe Empire
Country Year
Location N of stores
Poland
Czech Republic
Serbia
Slovakia
Russia
Turkey
Romania
Bulgaria
Lithuania
Croatia
Latvia
Estonia
Ukraine
Slovenia
1990 Janki (near 11 Warsaw)
1991 Budejovická 4 (Prague)
1991 Belgrade 1
1992 Bratislava 1
There are three stores in Warsaw and one per Gdańsk, Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków, Poznań, Łódź, Bydgoszcz, and Lublin. A store is being built in Szczecin, due to open in 2021.
There are two IKEA stores in Prague and one concept store: one at Zličín and one at Černý Most; both Zličín and Černý most are located at the periphery of Prague. The concept store was located on the Wenceslas square. The first original store at Budějovická - Prague 4 was abandoned.[when?] Outside of Prague there are two locations - in the country's second largest city, Brno, and in Ostrava. There are three stores planned within six years (Plzeň, Hradec Králové and a third location in Prague). In 2018 a concept store was opened on the Wenceslas square in down- town Prague and was closed at the end of 2019.
The first IKEA store in present-day Serbia was opened in 1991, but was closed
in 1992 due to UN sanctions over Yugoslavia. IKEA returned after 25 years and officially opened its first store on August 10, 2017. IKEA plans to develop a 40,000 square metres retail park in Belgrade, in addition to the department store in Bubanj Potok and furthermore open one more department store in Serbian capital and three more stores in cities of Novi Sad, Kragujevac and Niš for which the land has already been acquired back in 2013. Belgrade IKEA office is regional center for former Yugoslavia and Romania.
Original store was closed upon the opening of a new store in the Avion Shopping Park. There are two more stores planned in Slovakia, in Košice and Žilina.
Fourth market by revenue after Germany, the U.S. and Sweden. There are 3 IKEA
2000 Khimki 14
(near stores in Moscow (Khimki, Teply Stan and Belaya Dacha), 2 stores in St. Peters-
Moscow) burg (Parnas and Dybenko), stores in Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Novaya Adygea (in Adygea near Krasnodar), Samara,
2005 Istanbul 7
2007 Bucharest 2
2011 Sofia 1
2013 Vilnius 3
2014 Zagreb 1
2018 Riga 1
2019 Tallinn 1
2020 Kyiv 1
2021 Ljubljana 1
Omsk and Ufa. The IKEA stores in Russia are in connection with MEGA malls developed by IKEA. 5-6 new openings are planned by 2020.
There are three stores in Istanbul (Bayrampaşa, Kartal and Ümraniye), one store in İzmir (Bornova), one store in Bursa (Osmangazi), one store in Ankara (Mamak) and one store in Antalya (Kepez).
26,000 square metres (280,000 sq ft) store opened on March 21, 2007, in Băneasa retail park. A second 37,000 square metres (400,000 sq ft) store was opened in Bucharest on June 24, 2019. Stores planned to open in Timișoara, Brașov and Cluj-Napoca.
IKEA opened its first store in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on September 20, 2011. IKEA additionally runs three smaller stores called "order centers" with limited selections on location in Varna, Burgas, and Plovdiv. These stores also serve as online order pick up locations for deliveries from the main store in Sofia.
First IKEA in the Baltics. The first IKEA store in Lithuania was opened on August 14, 2013 in Vilnius. It has the capacity of 26,000 square metres and is also con- sidered to be one of the best projects in the history of IKEA. The store is located near Vilnius International Airport. The second and the third stores are located in Klaipeda and Kaunas.
The first IKEA in Croatia opened its doors on 21 August 2014 and with total area of 38,000 m2 (410,000 sq ft) is one of the five biggest in Europe and among 10 biggest IKEA stores in the world.
The first store in Latvia was opened on 30 August 2018 in Stopiņi near Riga.
IKEA Estonia launched its online store as well as its first brick-and-mortar loca- tion, a limited showroom and pickup point, in the Lasnamäe district of Tallinn on 29 August 2019. However, the first full-sized store is planned to be opened in 2023 at Kurna village in Rae Parish, outside of Tallinn area.
Multiple pick-up points and the online store with delivery.
First IKEA store in Slovenia was opened on February 25, 2021 next to BTC shop- ping city in Ljubljana.
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