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the 1970s, with the first store outside Scandinavia opening in Switzerland (1973), followed by West Germany (1974). Amid a high level of success, the company's West German executives accidentally opened a store in Konstanz in 1973 instead of Koblenz. Later that decade, stores opened in other parts of the world, such as Japan (1974), Australia, Canada, Hong Kong (1975), and Singapore (1978). IKEA further expanded in the 1980s, opening stores in countries such as France and Spain (1981), Belgium (1984), the United States (1985), the United Kingdom (1987), and Italy (1989). The company later expanded into more countries in the
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the 1970s, with the first store outside Scandinavia opening in Switzerland (1973), followed by West Germany (1974). Amid a high level of success, the company's West German executives accidentally opened a store in Konstanz in 1973 instead of Koblenz. Later that decade, stores opened in other parts of the world, such as Japan (1974), Australia, Canada, Hong Kong (1975), and Singapore (1978). IKEA further expanded in the 1980s, opening stores in countries such as France and Spain (1981), Belgium (1984), the United States (1985), the United Kingdom (1987), and Italy (1989). The company later expanded into more countries in the
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in early 2017. Sears closed in July 2017. SouthBay Pavilion SouthBay Pavilion, formerly Carson Mall, is a partially enclosed shopping mall in Carson, California. Opened in 1973, it features IKEA, J. C. Penney, and Target as its anchor stores. SouthBay Pavilion is an International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) award-winning shopping center for its innovative marketing and event programs focused on community service and social responsibility. The mall development was announced in 1972 with J. C. Penney, Sears, and The Broadway along with a J. J. Newberry dime store. By 1985, Toys "R" Us was added. It was the first
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SouthBay Pavilion SouthBay Pavilion, formerly Carson Mall, is a partially enclosed shopping mall in Carson, California. Opened in 1973, it features IKEA, J. C. Penney, and Target as its anchor stores. SouthBay Pavilion is an International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) award-winning shopping center for its innovative marketing and event programs focused on community service and social responsibility. The mall development was announced in 1972 with J. C. Penney, Sears, and The Broadway along with a J. J. Newberry dime store. By 1985, Toys "R" Us was added. It was the first Toys "R" Us to be located in a
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1 November 2017 IKEA bought 10 acres of land in Gurugram to expand operations in Northern India. On 31 January 2017, IKEA announced that it will open a new store in Latvia. It will be the second store to open in the Baltic states. The store will be located near Riga and is planned to open in August 2018. On 10 August 2017, IKEA opened its first store in Serbia and 400th store overall. IKEA invested €70 million, and plans to open a second store in Belgrade in the future. On 16 November 2017, IKEA opened its third store in
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Malaysia in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. It was the largest store in Southeast Asia, spanning 502,815 sq ft. On 15 March 2018, IKEA opened its second store in Thailand in Bangkok, Thailand. It is now the largest store in Southeast Asia ahead of Johor Bahru, Malaysia, with a total area of 50,278 m and 1900 car park spaces. It's also the first store with cashiers installed on all floors. On September 5 2018 IKEA opened its first store in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The store is located in Salmabad. IKEA was awarded the Nordic Language Award of 2017 for introducing Scandinavian
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the renovated store now measures . In March 2013, IKEA opened its first outlet in Qatar, after a delay of several months. Like others in the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Doha outlet is operated by the Al-Futtaim Group. In August 2013, the first store in the Baltic States was opened in the Vilnius region of Lithuania. Construction of the store commenced in 2011 and the store employs over 200 people. It is the biggest furniture-selling mall in the Baltic states. In 2014, IKEA opened its first warehouse in Croatia, near Zagreb. The warehouse opened its doors on 21 August 2014.
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IKEA Museum The IKEA Museum is a museum located in Älmhult, Sweden, that opened to the public on June 30, 2016. It presents the history of the Swedish furnishing company IKEA. It replaced IKEA Through the Ages, a smaller 800 m exhibition that showed 20 different room settings with IKEA furniture and objects. The IKEA Museum is in the same building where the first IKEA store opened in 1958. The store moved to a new location in Älmhult in 2012. At this time, work began on converting the store into a museum, with an original planned opening date of 2015.
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The facade of the building was restored to recreate its original appearance. The museum has an area of 3500 m. IKEA Museum The IKEA Museum is a museum located in Älmhult, Sweden, that opened to the public on June 30, 2016. It presents the history of the Swedish furnishing company IKEA. It replaced IKEA Through the Ages, a smaller 800 m exhibition that showed 20 different room settings with IKEA furniture and objects. The IKEA Museum is in the same building where the first IKEA store opened in 1958. The store moved to a new location in Älmhult in 2012.
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1990s and 2000s. Germany, with 53 stores, is IKEA's biggest market, followed by the United States, with 50 stores. At the end of the 2009 financial year, the IKEA group operated 267 stores in 25 countries. The first IKEA store in Latin America opened on 17 February 2010 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. , the company's presence in developing countries remains minimal. In December 2014, the world's largest IKEA store at , opened near the KTX Gwangmyeong Station, located at the heart of South Korea's Seoul Capital Area. It opened the world's fourth largest store (and the largest standalone store
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new store opened in Southampton, of Red Funnel was re-painted in an entirely yellow and blue livery to celebrate the opening of the new IKEA store in Southampton. This is the first time a Red Funnel ferry has been re-painted out of its own red and white colour scheme. It stayed in these colours for 12 months as part of a deal between Red Funnel and IKEA to provide home delivery services to the Isle of Wight. It was repainted with Red Funnel's red and white livery when the deal ended in January 2010. In March 2010, IKEA developed an
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Elizabeth Center The Elizabeth Center is a power center located off Exit 13A on the New Jersey Turnpike in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The location near the exit is incorporated into the center's logo, as El13Abeth Center. The first tenant, IKEA, opened in 1990. It is right next to the Jersey Gardens mall and also located in an Urban Enterprise Zone. Built on a former landfill, in 1990 the Swedish-based home furnishings store, IKEA, opened. It became very successful, and by the mid-1990s, an Incredible Universe store opened next to IKEA. Toys "R" Us Kid's World, a prototype store also opened
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operations on 4 February 2017, and the grand opening of the new store took place on 8 February 2017. IKEA began constructing its first store in India on 11 August 2016. The 400,000 sq ft store in Hyderabad was built at a cost of , and opened on 9 August 2018. IKEA purchased 610,000 sq ft of land in Bengaluru, Karnataka next to a Namma Metro station where the company plans on opening their third store in India later the same year. The store in Bengaluru will be IKEA's biggest in Asia. The company began construction of its second Indian
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Ottawa and Heerlen with , or a "boutique" shop in Manhattan). A new format for a full-size, city centre store was introduced with the opening of the Manchester (United Kingdom) store, situated in Ashton-under-Lyne in 2006. Another store, in Coventry opened in December 2007. The store has seven floors and a different flow from other IKEA stores. IKEA's Southampton store which opened in February 2009 is also in the city centre and built in an urban style similar to the Coventry store. IKEA built these stores in response to UK government restrictions blocking retail establishment outside city centres. In Hong
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Ampere Way tram stop Ampere Way is a tram stop in the London Borough of Croydon, serving the Purley Way commercial area. Tramlink trams serve the stop, which is located opposite IKEA Croydon. When the stop opened, it was named "Ampere Way" in reference to the nearby former Croydon Power Station. The two chimneys from the old power station still exist in the grounds of the IKEA store. The station was renamed IKEA Ampere Way under a sponsorship deal on 18 October 2006, in order to promote the stop's location near IKEA's Croydon store. By March 2008, the station had
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for the construction of Brooklyn Commons, a $63 million entertainment and retail complex featuring a 22-screen multiplex cinema, a bowling alley, shops, restaurants and a 1,500-space parking lot. The Swedish furniture store IKEA planned to open a store on the site, but withdrew its proposal in 2001 after opposition from the community. IKEA was later given permission to build a store in adjacent Red Hook. The 9th Street site remained empty until 2004 when a large Lowe's store was built and opened, along with an adjacent public promenade overlooking the canal. By 1998, the neighborhoods around the canal (Carroll Gardens
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Norman, Next, T.K. Maxx and Bhs as likely tenants; all selling electric and/or homeware goods. In January 2006, IKEA announced its intention to build a 25,800 m (278,000 ft) store, its first in Northern Ireland. In May 2006, IKEA amended its application for a larger 29,000 m (312,000 ft) store. The application was approved in December 2006, work on the store began in January 2007, and the store opened on 13 December 2007. The store includes a five hundred seat Restaurant, Bistro and Swedish Shop and has parking for 1455 vehicles. Heating is provided by a 1.2 MW biomass boiler
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The International school is currently located at Haganässkolan. Älmhult Älmhult is a locality and the seat of Älmhult Municipality in Kronoberg County, Sweden with 8,955 inhabitants in 2010. It was in Älmhult that the first IKEA (the Swedish furniture company) store was built. IKEA continues to have a large corporate presence there. A museum of IKEA's history, the IKEA Museum, opened in the town on 30 June 2016. It was constructed to present the history of IKEA. The botanist Carl Linnaeus was born in Råshult, Stenbrohult, now part of Älmhult municipality. Älmhult has a local high school called Haganässkolan, and
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Älmhult Älmhult is a locality and the seat of Älmhult Municipality in Kronoberg County, Sweden with 8,955 inhabitants in 2010. It was in Älmhult that the first IKEA (the Swedish furniture company) store was built. IKEA continues to have a large corporate presence there. A museum of IKEA's history, the IKEA Museum, opened in the town on 30 June 2016. It was constructed to present the history of IKEA. The botanist Carl Linnaeus was born in Råshult, Stenbrohult, now part of Älmhult municipality. Älmhult has a local high school called Haganässkolan, and also an International School up to Grade 10.
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which goes to Leštane, only intermittently drives to Bubanj Potok). It will be the first IKEA store in Serbia and one of the largest in the region. As the store and the adjoining parking, with the 1,375 parking spots, will cover a lot of , while IKEA bought a neighboring lot of , too, future expansion is probable. The store was opened on 10 August 2017. It was announced that it will sell 9,500 products, of which only 2 will be actually made in Serbia: wooden cutting boards and rolling pins and the prices will correspond to those "in the
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Kaarst IKEA station Kaarst IKEA station is a Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn station in the town of Kaarst in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened as "Holzbüttgen" between 1954 and 1957 on the remaining part of the Neuss–Viersen railway, which was opened by the Rhenish Railway Company on 15 November 1877. It was reopened as "IKEA Kaarst" (after the nearby IKEA store) on 26 September 1999 and given its current name on 16 June 2002. The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 28 at 20 minute intervals The station is served by one taxibus service, 861 (Holzbüttgen/Sandfeld
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– Neusser Str), operated by "Busverkehr Rheinland" at 60 minute intervals. Kaarst IKEA station Kaarst IKEA station is a Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn station in the town of Kaarst in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened as "Holzbüttgen" between 1954 and 1957 on the remaining part of the Neuss–Viersen railway, which was opened by the Rhenish Railway Company on 15 November 1877. It was reopened as "IKEA Kaarst" (after the nearby IKEA store) on 26 September 1999 and given its current name on 16 June 2002. The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 28 at 20 minute
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climate, abbreviated "Csa" on climate maps. In March 2006, IKEA opened a store in West Sacramento near Reed Avenue and Interstate 80 in the Riverpoint Shopping Center. On November 15, 2007 a Home Depot opened in the Riverpoint Shopping Center, next to IKEA. Target opened a new store at the Southport Shopping Center directly across from Nugget Market, an upscale grocery store headquartered in Woodland, California. A Lowe's Home Improvement Center just west of Target, behind Arlington Oaks was completed in February 2008. West Sacramento is home to Sacramento-area CBS television station KOVR and The CW station KMAX-TV. Both stations,
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Kong, where shop space is limited and costly, IKEA has opened three outlets in the city, most of which have the one-way layout. They are part of shopping malls, and while being tiny compared to common store design, are huge by Hong Kong standards. In 2015, IKEA announced that it would be attempting a smaller store design at several locations in Canada. This modified store will feature only a display gallery and small warehouse. One location planned for Kitchener is in the place formerly occupied by a Sears Home store. The warehouses will not keep furniture stocked, and so customers
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The first KFC outlet in the UK was on Fishergate in Preston in May 1965, opened by the entrepreneur Ray Allen. Oldham claims to be the site of the first fried potatoes in the UK in 1860. The UK's biggest dance music festival takes place on the August Bank Holiday at Creamfields on Daresbury Estate. Ingvar Kamprad's IKEA opened its first UK store in Warrington on 1 October 1987; the UK was the 20th country at the time that IKEA had been established. The International Cheese Awards are held at the end of July in Nantwich. Liverpool and Manchester, the
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gap in the UK middle market of furniture retailing. The company started when Jorgen and Inger Linde opened a 10,000 m² warehouse south of Copenhagen in 1974 under the name of "JL Møbler" og "Tæpper A/S" . Three years later, it was renamed ILVA. ILVA opened its first United Kingdom store in 2006. It planned to open stores close to existing IKEA stores in order to boost their customer base. In July 2007 the Daily Telegraph reported that the company had run up losses of £11.5 million. The store was sold to the Icelandic retail group Rúmfatalagerinn in August 2007,
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mixed-use Empire development near Bob Hope Airport. In late 2012, IKEA announced plans to relocate to a new site in Burbank. Its original location was situated north of the Burbank Town Center mall. The new location was approved by the city in 2014 and is just north of Alameda Avenue and east of the Golden State Freeway. The new 456,000-square-foot store was completed in February 2017, and when it opened was the largest IKEA in the United States. Meantime, the old IKEA site north of the mall is getting its own makeover and will feature residential and retail space. Also,
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Gertz corporate staff was relocated to the 5th floor of the Broadway Mall location. In mid 1982, Allied merged its Gertz division into its Paramus, New Jersey based Stern's division. All former Gertz locations were re-branded as Stern's in early 1983, and a regional corporate staff remained at the Broadway Mall store. The store was then rebranded as Macy's in 2001 when Federated Department Stores folded their Stern's Division. In 1991, IKEA opened their second store in the New York Metropolitan Area at the mall (The Elizabeth, NJ store opened 1990). Until 2003, the store was not connected to the
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reverted to its former name. The tramstop is served by Tramlink 3 (Wimbledon-New Addington) and Tramlink 4 (Wimbledon-Elmers End). London Buses route 455 serves the tram stop. Ampere Way tram stop Ampere Way is a tram stop in the London Borough of Croydon, serving the Purley Way commercial area. Tramlink trams serve the stop, which is located opposite IKEA Croydon. When the stop opened, it was named "Ampere Way" in reference to the nearby former Croydon Power Station. The two chimneys from the old power station still exist in the grounds of the IKEA store. The station was renamed IKEA
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making it one of the largest users of wood in the retail sector. Most of IKEA's stores and factories were previously owned by INGKA, a holding company controlled by the Stichting INGKA Foundation, one of the 40 wealthiest foundations in the world. Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943 as a mostly mail-order sales business. It began to sell furniture five years later. The first Möbel-IKÉA store was opened in Älmhult, Småland, in 1958 (Möbel means "furniture" in Swedish). The first stores outside Sweden were opened in Norway (1963) and Denmark (1969). The stores spread to other parts of Europe in
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The supermarket chain Asda opened their biggest store in the UK in November of the same year. The Asda supercentre remains, to date, the largest Asda store ever built at over 120'000 sq.ft. And the Swedish furniture retailer IKEA built and opened large stores at Denbigh North on land formerly occupied by the Sanctuary Music Arena, the Irish Club, a sports ground and other sports facilities. Tesco responded by expanding its store at the north-east edge of Bletchley/Fenny Stratford. The sale of the land to Asda and IKEA provided the capital to develop Stadium MK. In subsequent developments, an hotel,
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in the world) in Goyang, Gyeonggi on October 2017 at 52,199 square meters. IKEA plans to open two more stores of such scale in the Seoul Capital Area, along with a store in Daejeon and Busan by 2020. The largest store in the Southern Hemisphere is located in Tempe, Sydney, Australia with an area of . The biggest store in North America is located in Montreal, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The store was opened in 1986 in the Ville-St-Laurent area, and was completely renovated and expanded in 2012-2013. Built in 1986, the store's initial area was , while
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the extension was to be built. The Next home store came after IKEA had originally had plans to build a store close to Meadowhall however Next won the bid to build on the land instead. A new IKEA store however began being built on land next to Meadowhall retail park in August 2016. The store opened on 28 September 2017. In October 2016 it was announced plans had been put forward for a £300 million leisure extension to be built with a new cinema to replace the Vue in the Oasis, a bowling arcade, trampoline park, new restaurants, shops and
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redevelopment area, a part of the wider Clyde Waterfront Regeneration project. The Braehead area includes: The shopping centre opened in late 1999. It comprises of retail and leisure floorspace. The centre has 110 shops in the main covered mall, and a further 10 in a retail park of larger stores. Braehead is also home to Renfrew's IKEA store which opened in 2001 and sits near the King George V Dock. At 29,000 m it is the largest IKEA store in Scotland and at the time of opening was the largest in the United Kingdom. Since opening, the centre has proved
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IPC Shopping Centre IPC Shopping Centre (formerly Ikano Power Centre) is a shopping centre anchored by IKEA near The Curve in Mutiara Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia. It opened in December 2003 and has 5 floors.It was known as the Ikano Power Centre back then. After extensive renovations done, it opened in November 2017 as IPC Shopping Centre. IKEA - Located beside the Shopping Centre Harvey Norman - Flagship Store, 1st and 2nd Floor Ben's Independent Grocer (B.I.G) - Supermarket, Lower Ground Floor Popular Bookstore Toys R Us Padini Concept Store Brands Outlet Victoria's Secret LC Waikiki Cotton On H&M Skechers ACE
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2008, the centre's 2-level Myer store was opened, which replaced the Myer store in Strathpine Centre that closed in 2007. IKEA opened their second Queensland store at Westfield North Lakes in November 2016. Stage 3 also has 60 additional stores, including Kmart, Rebel Sport, JB HI-FI and Cotton On. Westfield North Lakes Westfield North Lakes is a shopping centre in North Lakes on the northern outskirts of Brisbane. The centre first opened in on 7 August 2003 and initially included around 80 stores including Target and Coles. In early 2007, construction began on a major extension that was set to
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2015 IKEA stabbing attack The 2015 IKEA stabbing attack occurred on 10 August when Abraham Ukbagabir fatally stabbed two people in an IKEA store in the Erikslund Shopping Center in Västerås, Sweden as revenge for not being granted asylum in Sweden. The stabbing attracted worldwide attention. Ukbagabir was convicted of two first degree murder charges and sentenced to life in December 2015. The perpetrator, Abraham Ukbagabir, a 36-year-old Eritrean Christian, took a knife from the kitchenware department at IKEA in Västerås and began looking for Swedish-looking people to attack. He attacked two victims; Carola Herlin (55) and her son Emil
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every year. There is extensive car parking at the centre, it is mainly pay and display, and is close to the town's major supermarkets. Immediately adjacent to The Peel Centre, across the road is a smaller development, Portwood Court, complementing the centre. In 2003, IKEA announced plans to open a store on the other side of the Portwood Roundabout and M60, but were denied planning permission, and after numerous appeals they were finally turned down in 2005 by the then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. The first IKEA store in Greater Manchester opened in 2006, in neighbouring Ashton-under-Lyne. The Peel
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about 6,000 people. Red Hook also contains several parks. Red Hook has a large IKEA store () that opened on June 18, 2008, near the Gowanus Expressway. The building of IKEA was controversial. Opponents cited concerns including traffic congestion, a decrease in property values and destruction of this transit-oriented neighborhood and historically significant buildings in the area. Brooklyn artist Greg Lindquist exhibited a group of paintings in February 2008 in New York City that depicted the IKEA site in process, juxtaposing the maritime decay with the new construction. As part of the IKEA development, a number of Civil War era
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Knaresborough opened in 2012. It features low energy heating, an energy-saving lighting system and a living roof garden for wildlife and insects. The store is also home to Stanley's Coffee House & Kitchen. The Leeds Barker and Stonehouse store is located in the West Yorkshire Retail Park on Geldherd Road, Birstall and has two floors of furniture. Barker and Stonehouse Hull is located in the Junction Retail Park, St Andrews Quay The Barker and Stonehouse Nottingham store is located on Giltbrook Retail Park, Ikea Way. Barker and Stonehouse opened their first London store in 2013. The Battersea showroom is located
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Dhabi's largest malls, located close to IKEA. In January 2017, Forbes recognized Yas Mall as one of the top five shopping malls in Abu Dhabi. IKEA Yas Island is the flagship store and first retail outlet to open on Yas Island. The 33,000 sqm store with a total sales area of 19,150sqm is the largest IKEA store in the MENA region and includes a play area for kids. Previously located within the Marina Mall complex, the store was moved to Yas Island primarily due to limited room for expansion. The ACE Hardware Yas Island is the UAE’s second largest ACE
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ground of the state's football association, Penang FA. The stadium, which has a capacity of 40,000, also played host to national-level sporting events, such as the 2000 Sukma Games. Opened in 2016, Design Village, with a built-up area of , is the biggest outlet mall in Malaysia. Among the tenants within the mall are Gap, Timberland, Pierre Cardin, Padini, Adidas, Body Glove, Levi's, Guess, Samsonite, Esprit and Cotton On. In 2017, the construction of the IKEA Batu Kawan store was launched by the Chief Minister of Penang, Lim Guan Eng. Slated for completion by 2019, it is the first IKEA
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use different track gauges, requiring all freight wagons crossing the border to have their cargo reloaded or their bogies exchanged. There is a dual gauge track, in a and four rail gauntlet track formation, between Haparanda and Tornio. An IKEA retail store opened 15 November 2006 in a new commercial enterprise zone at the Haparanda-Tornio border, and is the northernmost IKEA store in the world. Though goods are priced in Swedish kronor only, instore signage is in both Swedish and Finnish. This single store attracts a claimed two million visitors every year, and has triggered "piggy-back" development of other large-scale
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Swedish home products retailer IKEA opened its first British store in the Burtonwood area of the town, bringing more than 200 retail jobs to the area. The first MMR vaccine to be administered in the UK was given by Dr Benjamin Paterson at Warrington General Hospital in 1971. History of Warrington The history of Warrington began when it was founded by the Romans at an important crossing place on the River Mersey. A new settlement was established by the Saxons. By the Middle Ages, Warrington had emerged as a market town at the lowest bridging point of the river. A
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part of a national trend towards out of town shopping. The retail parks were not formally recognised by Croydon Council until the publication of its 1997 Unitary Development Plan. The IKEA in Croydon is a 23,000 m² furniture store which opened in 1992, on the site of Croydon 'B' Power Station. The old power station chimneys, with the addition of illuminated bands in the store's blue-and-yellow colours, were retained as a prominent advertisement. The store was revamped during 2006, to make it the largest IKEA in Britain: it was re launched in May 2006, at a ceremony attended by Mayor
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Exchange (previously known as D5 or Harbour Exchange) on 14 November 1995. Planning permission was granted twice and then successfully challenged. The third time planning permission was granted it was again challenged, but this time unsuccessfully. Construction began in December 2002 and when completed the development consisted of an 11 unit 13,940 m (150,000 ft) retail warehouse centre, a Sainsbury's store and service station, and a B&Q store. A 29,000 m (312,000 ft) IKEA store opened on 13 December 2007. City Quays is a mixed-use commercial offices in City Quays 1 and City Quays 2 and includes shops, cafes, restaurants
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currently the biggest in Ashton. In 2006, after failing twice to gain permission, IKEA announced plans to build its first town centre-store in Ashton-under-Lyne. The store is expected to create 500 new jobs as well as attract other businesses to the area. The store opened on 19 October 2006 and covers . At the time of its creation, the store was the tallest in Britain. Amongst the facilities provided by Ashton Leisure Park are a 14-screen cinema, a bowling alley, and several restaurants. The St Petersfield area of Ashton underwent a £42M redevelopment and provided 2,000 jobs. The aim of
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place for the new megamall, and in 1992, it was opened to the public. Today, tenants of Mall of America, when combined, constitute the largest private-sector employer in Bloomington, employing about 13,000 people. In 1993, the Minnesota North Stars hockey team moved to Dallas, and a year later the Metropolitan Sports Center was demolished. In 2004, an IKEA store opened on the west end of the former Met Center site. The remainder of the property is planned to be the site for Mall of America Phase II. In May 2006 the Water Park of America opened, the ninth largest indoor
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Gangnam-gu, Seoul. It expanded rapidly and opened its 100th store in May 2006 in Gangnam Station. Its first international store was in the USA and opened April 2008 in Los Angeles. It opened its 200th store in May 2009. The Hollys Coffee Academy was opened in April 2011. Continuing to expand overseas its first store in the Philippines was opened in July 2011, the first store in China was opened in July 2012 in Shenzhen. and its first store in Thailand opened in 2013 in Bangkok Hollys Coffee Hollys Coffee (Korean: 할리스 커피) is a specialty coffee company headquartered in
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Speedway and Concord Mills Mall. University City is home to the University Research Park (located on the other side of I-85), one of the largest research parks in the state, and the PNC Music Pavilion. IKEA opened a store in University City on February 18, 2009. This is the first and only IKEA in the Carolinas. The University City area of Charlotte contains large companies such as TIAA-CREF which help contribute to the city's prowess in the financial industry. University City is also one of three Municipal Service Districts in Charlotte. University City has an estimated population of more than
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now occupying restored buildings. In 2009, IKEA opened Florida's largest IKEA store on 22nd Street just north of the Selmon Expressway. People were moving back to the area around once-vibrant 7th Avenue for the first time in many years. The recovery has not impacted different portions of historic Ybor City equally nor at the same rate. While the once-abandoned commercial district south of Interstate 4 underwent much redevelopment during the 1990s, populated areas north of I-4 and east of 22nd St. did not. Despite years of public and private attempts to spur economic growth, urban decay and high poverty have
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The shopping center in Zagreb with an area of is one of the five biggest in Europe and among the 10 biggest IKEA stores in the world. On 26 March 2015, a set of 19 storage buildings holding various film and TV props, owned by Western Studio Services, were demolished in favor of construction of the largest IKEA in the United States. Located in Burbank, California, this store replaced Burbank's existing IKEA located less than a mile away from the new construction site, which was nearly double the size of the existing store (456,000 sq ft). The existing store ceased
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Easy to Assemble Easy to Assemble is a web series created by and starring Illeana Douglas, and sponsored by furniture store IKEA. Douglas plays a fictional version of herself trying to quit acting and work a "real job" at the IKEA store in Burbank, California. She soon finds she cannot leave Hollywood behind when fellow actress Justine Bateman starts an internet talk show called "40 and Bitter" on the floor of IKEA. The series has had several notable guest stars, including Jeff Goldblum, Keanu Reeves, Jane Lynch, Justine Bateman, Tim Meadows, Cheri Oteri, Tom Arnold, Ed Begley Jr., Kevin Pollak,
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language and culture to a global audience. Founder Ingvar Kamprad died on 27 January 2018. In 2020, IKEA plans to open its largest store in the world in Manila, Philippines, which will have an area of . IKEA will enter Chile in 2020, Colombia and Peru in 2021 after reaching an agreement with the Chilean company Falabella. Older IKEA stores are usually blue buildings with yellow accents (also Sweden's national colours). They are often designed in a one-way layout, leading customers counter clockwise along what IKEA calls "the long natural way" designed to encourage the customer to see the store
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In 2015, an Argos in-store concession opened up inside the Sainsbury's. However, the SavaCentre name is still more commonly used than either Sainsbury's or the Calcot Retail Park by the locals. On the other side of the Porsche Centre, was the Pincents Lane Retail Park. This was anchored by a branch of Homebase, but also featuring a branch of Dunelm Mill, Carpetright, Utopia Nightclub and Reading Megabowl bowling alley. In 2015, the retail park was demolished (apart from the Dunelm Mill store) and a new branch of IKEA was opened in its place in July 2016. The original plan was
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on September 30, 2002. In 2003, the structure was demolished to make way for Japan's first large-format IKEA store, which opened on the site on April 24, 2006. SSAWS SSAWS, pronounced and officially known as , was an indoor ski slope in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan. The name was an acronym of "Spring Summer Autumn Winter Snow". Constructed by Mitsui at a cost of US$400 million, the ski slope opened on July 15, 1993. With a structural height of 100 meters (translating to a skiable vertical drop of 80 m), a width of 100 m and a length of 500 m,
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gave up in the United States market around 1993-1994. The first American Auchan (pronounced by Houstonians as “o-shawn”) store opened in western Houston on October 14, 1988. The hypermarket was located on a plot of land on Beltway 8, north of U.S. Route 59. The store was one of many hypermarkets to open in the U.S in the late 80's, after Walmart debuted Hypermart USA in December 1987, and Carrefour's Philadelphia store debuted in March 1988. David Kaplan of the "Houston Chronicle" said "it was fairly unusual and became something of a tourist attraction" when it had first opened, as
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and link malls were designed by Universal Design Studios and the East Mall was designed by Softroom. The redevelopment completed in 2 stages, the first stage opened on 29 October 2015 and the second stage opened on 5 May 2016. QIC also owns the adjacent Ringwood Market site - which was demolished at the end of 2009 to make way for a new retail/commercial development - and past plans for a westward expansion of 3 separate 5 storey buildings, including office space, underground parking, and boutique shops/dining along with the space for a 12,000 square metre retail store (Costco, IKEA
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than its normal stopping point at East Cowes. In January 2009 the ship was re-painted in an entirely yellow and blue overall livery to advertise the opening of a new IKEA store in Southampton. This was the first time a Red Funnel ferry was re-painted out of the company's own colour scheme. She stayed in these colours for 12 months as part of a deal between Red Funnel and IKEA to provide home delivery services to the Isle of Wight. In January 2010 she was re-painted back into the normal Red Funnel colour scheme when the deal came to an
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store in 2002. Circuit City has no plan to open this door in the formerly occupied by Toys "R" Us in 2003. Target instead replaced Toys "R" Us. In May 2003, the mall was sold to Hopkins Real Estate of Newport Beach. Renovation plans began on the mall, including demolition of the IKEA/Toys "R" Us wing for a Target store, which opened in 2005. 24 Hour Fitness also opened on an outparcel. Other additions included Old Navy and a relocation of Big 5. Vintage Real Estate purchased the mall in 2009. In 2005, Chuck E. Cheese's made a remodel. In
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metropolitan area. Over 700 businesses employ about 6900 workers. Of these 1% are in the agricultural sector, 22% in the industrial sector, and 77% in the service sector. The two large shopping centers "Shoppi" and "Tivoli" as well as the furniture store IKEA (the first store opened outside of Scandinavia, in 1973), form the backbone of the service economy. Several leading companies operate in Spreitenbach; the most notable are Zweifel Pomy-Chips (potato chips), Bridgestone (car tires), Johnson & Johnson (pharmacy/cosmetics), Nestlé (foodstuffs), Miele (household goods), and Globus (retail trade). The municipality is located near the A3 motorway, and an on
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$1.5 million. The City of Renton appropriated another $400,000 for the project. The naming rights were secured by IKEA for $500,000 and construction began in June 2002. The shared-use facility, known as the Renton Community IKEA Performing Arts Center, was completed in June 2003. When the school first opened, there were only 43 students: 17 freshmen, 19 sophomores, 3 juniors, and the 4 seniors who made up the first graduating class, in May 1911. By comparison, the largest graduating class, that of 1965, when Renton was still the only high school in the district, comprised 809 seniors. The nickname "Indians"
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by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system established by the U.S. Green Building Council. Icebreaker sells through wholesale channels, retail stores, and its website. It opened its first retail store at the Wellington International Airport in 2005. In 2007, Icebreaker opened its first overseas TouchLab retail stores in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Portland, Oregon, USA. In 2010, Icebreaker opened its first store in Auckland and its first independent store in Europe, in collaboration with Travel Store SARL as retail partner, at 21st Avenue Michel Croz, Chamonix, Mont-Blanc, France. The company opened its first store
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to Leslie Street; the portion from Provost to railway underpass used to be the main driveway to the IKEA store. Provost Drive has been extended under railway line to meet with Esther Shiner Boulevard and extends to the rear of the IKEA store. Near the development is the Bayview Village Shopping Centre, a large IKEA store, North York General Hospital, a Canadian Tire store, Toronto Fire Services Station 116, and a Toronto Transportation and Public Works yard. The developers have incorporated publicly-visible art into their buildings. For example, one of the towers displays a large installation by artist James Lahey,
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Anders Dahlvig Anders Dahlvig, born 1957 in Sweden, is the former president of the Swedish furniture store chain, IKEA. Dahlvig started working for IKEA in 1984 and has held various positions since, including Store Manager, Country Manager of United Kingdom and Vice President, Europe. He held the position of CEO between 1999 and 2009 and has received various recognitions for IKEA Group’s work to promote diversity. Dahlvig currently serves as Chairman of group parent company Inter-IKEA (2016). Dahlvig is a member of European Retail Round Table and received the Swedish award for Good Environmental Leadership in 2002 for his independent
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main mall, the maiden store of Swedish furniture retailer IKEA in the Philippines will open at the open carpark between SMX Convention Center and Mall of Asia Arena by late 2020. Once complete, it will be IKEA's largest store in the world with a floor space of . Duty Free Philippines Corporation (DPFC) announced last Monday, May 7, 2018 that it would open a luxury multilevel store in the SM Mall of Asia Complex. The target opening date was to be on June 30 but was inaugurated on October 17, 2018 and soft opened on October 18 at Pacific Drive,
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be used to obtain discounts on certain products found in-store. It is available worldwide. In conjunction with the card, IKEA also publishes and sells a printed quarterly magazine titled "IKEA Family Live" which supplements the card and catalogue. The magazine is already printed in thirteen languages and an English edition for the United Kingdom was launched in February 2007. It is expected to have a subscription of over 500,000. In September 12, 2017, IKEA announced the augmented reality app, IKEA Place, following by Apple's release of its ARkit technology and iOS 11. IKEA Place helps consumers to visualize true to
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In the beginning, Oleg himself flew to Singapore, then began to use air transport, but the turning point came when an Indian dealer Ashok Vasmani shipped him half container TVs on credit. Tinkoff went on to container transportation. Reduced profits from wholesale pushed Tinkoff towards launching his own store network. In 1994 "Petrosib" opened the first store under the Sony label on in St. Petersburg. Then – another one at . "Petrosib USA" opened in San Francisco. Success in retail inspired Tinkoff to combine shops under one name. "Technoshock" was opened in 1995 and offered expensive household appliances at the
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training officers and conscripts for using the new missiles. F 8 remained an active military base until the decommissioning in 1974 when it was opened for general aviation. The airfield is known today as Barkarby Airport and was used until 2010 for general aviation for hobby flyers and enthusiasts with small planes. The area around F8 has been heavily developed in the beginning of the 21st century, with a big Outlet shoppingcenter, Ikea store and numerous other stores. In 2010 the airfield was closed down permanently. The municipality is now building office and living areas on the former airfield and
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preserving the environment in and surrounding the rivers we row. Gentle Giant Rowing supports the rowing program for Somerville High School which also rows out of the Blessings Boathouse. Grimmons Park is a small playground on Gov. Winthrop Road, which opened in 1984 on the site of the former Grimmons Elementary School. The park underwent a major renovation in 2009, partially funded by a $1,000,000 grant from IKEA for improvement of parks throughout the city of Somerville (IKEA had been planning to open a store in nearby Assembly Square). Ten Hills, Somerville, Massachusetts Ten Hills is a neighborhood in the
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be the only one) failed spectacularly to bring down the building on live television. The NHL returned to Minnesota in 2000 when the expansion Minnesota Wild began play at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. Meanwhile, the Harlem Globetrotters, an annual visitor to the Met Center, moved on, as had a large portion of Met Center's concert business, to Target Center. For several years after the arena was demolished, the property served as an overflow lot for the Mall of America. In 2004, an IKEA store opened on the west end of the property, and the new American Boulevard was
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sold at 17 UK stores by mid-2014. The decision followed a successful pilot project at the Lakeside IKEA store, whereby one photovoltaic system was sold almost every day. The solar CIGS panels are manufactured by Solibro, a German-based subsidiary of the Chinese company Hanergy. By the end of 2014, IKEA began to sell Solibro's solar residential kits in the Netherlands and in Switzerland. In November 2015 IKEA ended its contract with Hanergy and in April 2016 started working with Solarcentury IKEA announced in April 2016, that it was doing a second attempt with SolarCity to sell solar panels in the
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12-kilometre stretch of highway are eight valley bridges as well as ten under- and overpasses. This new part was opened on 1 December 2007. Siegen is South Westphalia's service and administrative centre. Much of its industry is based on metalworking. Pedestrian precincts in Bahnhofsstraße ("Railway Station Street") and Kölner Tor ("Cologne Gate"), both downtown, have made shopping in Siegen very convenient, as have the shopping centres City-Galerie (opened in 1998) and "Sieg Carré" (opened in 2006, both downtown) and "Siegerlandzentrum" (Siegen-Weidenau), and the Marburger Straße shopping street (downtown). In 2005, an IKEA store and a Peek & Cloppenburg location opened.
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with 34,000 workers, followed by administrative and support jobs with 24,000 workers, manufacturing with 21,000 workers, and food service with 20,000 workers. As of July 2013, the city of St. Louis had 143,147 workers in its labor force with 127,687 employed, 15,460 unemployed, and an unemployment rate of 10.8 percent. Unemployment in May 2014 fell 0.1% to 7.2%, nearly one percent above the national rate of 6.3% in that month. The Swedish furniture retailer IKEA, opened a complex in the Central West End including a store that added approximately 300 jobs in Fall 2015. The company opened its new store
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event in four important Metro stations in Paris, in which furniture collections are displayed in high-traffic spots, giving potential customers a chance to check out the brand's products. The Metro walls were also filled with prints that showcase IKEA interiors. In September 2010, IKEA launched an advertisement for UK and Ireland called "Happy Inside" which had 100 cats lying on IKEA furniture in the flagship IKEA store in Wembley, London. In April 2011, an advertising campaign was launched aiming at discovering whether men or women are messier in the home. Created by Mother, the campaign will begin with a TV
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and 2016. Like many Dallas suburbs, Frisco is accumulating many retail properties, including Stonebriar Centre (opened August 2000), a 165-store regional mall, and IKEA (opened 2005), a furniture store with an area of . Retail establishments and restaurant chains line Preston Road, which is one of the major north-south-running traffic arteries in the city. Frisco took a different economic track than many surrounding cities and elected to use a fractional percent of local sales tax to fund the Frisco Economic Development Corporation (FEDC) rather than DART, the regional transportation body. The effectiveness of the FEDC, whose primary purpose is to
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penetrated also to tier 2 and tier 3 cities was D Mart, owned by Avenue Supermarkets Limited. An attempt was made to allow international large format retailers such as Walmart into the country. However, it was successfully opposed by small retailers citing job elimination due to increased efficiency and lowered prices due to fewer losses and lower costs. India's true Big box format store was opened by IKEA in city of Hyderabad. In Ireland, large merchandise stores in the style of U.S. superstores were not a part of the retail sector until the late 20th century. Dunnes Stores have traditionally
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camp at Padgate, a Royal Naval air base at Appleton Thorn (RNAS Stretton) and an army base at the Peninsula Barracks in O'Leary Street. The Territorial Army was based at the Bath Street drill hall until they moved to Peninsula Barracks. In October 1987, Swedish home products retailer IKEA opened its first British store in the Burtonwood area of the town, bringing more than 200 retail jobs to the area. Historically in Lancashire, Warrington was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1847 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Warrington acquired county borough status upon reaching a population of 50,000 in
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municipality's inhabitants work outside the municipality. Qatar's largest mall, Doha Festival City, was partially opened in Umm Salal Mohammed in April 2017. Valued at QR 6.4 billion, the mall will eventually have 540 retail stores covering an area of 244,000 square meters. IKEA was the first store to be commissioned in Doha Festival City, opening its doors in March 2013. In recent years, heavy industry companies have set up in or relocated from Doha Industrial Area to Umm Salal. Factors that account for this pattern involve the finer condition of the roads, fewer transportation costs and more affordable renting of
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museum at Råshult, still surrounded by the same meadows and fields it was 300 years ago. Allegedly, the area has a variety of different specimens of plants, likely to trigger the interest of a botanical minded youngster. The geography is probably not distinguished from its neighbouring municipalities however. Like all Småland municipalities they contain a variety of lakes, streams and above all forests. The first IKEA store was opened in Älmhult, by Ingvar Kamprad. Ingvar grew up in the municipality, in Agunnaryd. There are 5 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Älmhult Municipality. In the table the
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to manage the company's social involvements on a global level. IKEA Social Initiative is headed by Marianne Barner. The main partners of IKEA Social Initiative are UNICEF and Save the Children. On 23 February 2009, at the ECOSOC event in New York, UNICEF announced that IKEA Social Initiative has become the agency's largest corporate partner, with total commitments of more than US$180 million. Examples of involvements: In 2009, Sweden's largest television station, SVT, revealed that IKEA's money—the three per cent collection from each store—does not actually go to a charitable foundation in the Netherlands, as IKEA has said. Inter IKEA
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IKEA Heights IKEA Heights is a 2009 comedic melodrama web series created by Dave Seger, Paul Bartunek, Delbert Shoopman, Spencer Strauss, and Tom Kauffman for Channel 101. The series is a spoof of soap operas and filmed covertly inside the IKEA store in Burbank, California. IKEA Heights stars Randall Park, Whitney Avalon, and Matt Braunger. "Entertainment Weekly"'s Whitney Pastorek said of the series, "[IKEA Heights] is so brilliant and awesome that its glories can really only be diminished by additional words." Madeleine Löwenborg-Frick, a spokesperson for IKEA's Canadian branch, said of the series, "Absolutely, we think it’s funny. We see
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of the Italian central administration. Cagliari is also the main trade and industrial centre of the island, with numerous commercial sites and factories within its metropolitan boundaries. The Cagliari-Sarroch port system was the third in Italy for goods movements in 2014. The first department store, (La Rinascente) opened in 1931 in the centre of the city, and it is still open today. Nowadays there are many commercial centres in the metropolitan area (Le Vele, Santa Gilla, La Corte del Sole, Marconi) hosting many European chain stores such as Auchan, Metro AG, Lidl, MediaWorld, Euronics, Jysk, IKEA, Carrefour and Bata Shoes.
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Tower Records Tower Records is an international retail music franchise and online music store that was formerly based in Sacramento, California, USA. From 1960 until 2006, Tower operated retail stores in the United States, which closed when Tower Records filed for bankruptcy and liquidation. Tower.com was purchased by a separate entity and was not affected by the retail store closings. The corporate name was MTS Inc., but this was little-known compared to the much more widely recognized Tower Records. In 1960, Russell Solomon opened the first Tower Records store on Watt Avenue, in Sacramento, California. He named it for his
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all furniture is stocked at the store level, such as particular sofa colours needing to be shipped from a warehouse to the customer's home (for a delivery charge). The item can also be shipped from the warehouse to the store. Some stores charge an extra fee for this service, but not all. Notable items of IKEA furniture include the Poäng armchair, the Billy bookcase and the Klippan sofa, all of which have sold by the tens of millions since the late 1970s. IKEA products are identified by one-word (rarely two-word) names. Most of the names are Scandinavian in origin. Although
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by Brasfield & Gorrie. The Commons is home to many low-rise condominiums, apartments, townhomes, and a large man-made stormwater retention pond that is located within the median of 17th Street. The Village is located on the westernmost portion of Atlantic Station, along 16th Street, and comprises an IKEA store that opened in 2005, as well as two apartment complexes. Current tenants include Athleta, The Athlete's Foot, Atlanta Falcons Official Team Store, Atlanta United Official Team Store, AT&T, Banana Republic, Bath & Body Works, Cellairis, Dermalogica, Dillard's, DSW, Earth and Sky Creations, Express, The Eye Gallery, Fab'rik, Francesca's, Gap, H&M, Icing,
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scale IKEA products into real environment. IKEA's goals of sustainability and environmental design in its merchandise have sometimes been at odds with the impact a new IKEA store can have on a community. In particular, the size of proposed IKEA stores has often seen significant opposition from members of such communities. The following are a list of issues which have received negative media attention, both regarding the size of IKEA's stores and other controversies: IKEA has been criticised by Citytv in Canada for charging up to twice as much in their Canadian stores as for the same items sold in
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was published in 30 languages. Containing over 300 pages and about 12,000 products, it is distributed both by mail and in stores. Each edition of the catalogue takes about 10 months to develop from concept to final product. Most of the catalogue is produced by IKEA Communications AB in Älmhult, Sweden, the site of the original IKEA store and where IKEA Communications operates the largest photo studio in northern Europe (8,000 square meters in size). As of 2012, the studio employs 285 photographers, carpenters, interior designers and other personnel working full-time on photo shoots. The catalogue itself is printed on
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The next two units were opened in 1995 and let to Currys and PC World, and a Burger King fast food restaurant opened opposite. By this stage the area was known as Gallagher Retail Park and incorporated the nearby Ikea and Cargo Club stores. A further phase was completed in 2000, with Furniture Village, Furnitureland and ScS, while Currys moved to a new store in this phase (the largest electrical superstore in Europe on its completion) and their original unit was re-let to furniture retailer MFI, who remained there until the business went into liquidation eight years later. Pizza Hut
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the humour in it and we approach our own marketing with a similar tongue-in-cheek humour. But unauthorized filming in our stores isn’t a good thing. There’s proper channels that people who want to film in our stores can go through." IKEA Heights IKEA Heights is a 2009 comedic melodrama web series created by Dave Seger, Paul Bartunek, Delbert Shoopman, Spencer Strauss, and Tom Kauffman for Channel 101. The series is a spoof of soap operas and filmed covertly inside the IKEA store in Burbank, California. IKEA Heights stars Randall Park, Whitney Avalon, and Matt Braunger. "Entertainment Weekly"'s Whitney Pastorek said
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Jardine Insurance Brokers. By 1980 the firm had operations in southern Africa, Australia, China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, as well as the United States, and employed 37,000 people. During the following decade, Jardines continued to develop its portfolio of businesses. It expanded its motor interests to the United Kingdom, opened Hong Kong's first branded convenience store under the 7-Eleven franchise, acquired the Pizza Hut and IKEA franchises in Hong Kong and Taiwan and set up a joint venture with Mercedes-Benz in Southern China. Jardine Pacific was also established to
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The founder Oscar Farinetti received the "America Award" of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2013. On December 16, 2014 Eataly opened the first store at Zorlu Center in Istanbul. On May 19, 2015, Eataly opened its first store in the southern hemisphere in São Paulo. On November 26, 2015, Eataly opened in Munich, making it the first location in Germany. In November 2016, a 45,000 square foot Eataly location opened in the Boston Prudential Center, replacing an existing food court after extensive renovations. In June 2016, it was announced that an Eataly location would open in 2018 at the Park MGM
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(130,000 m²). Next to the mall's property is the third IKEA store built in the United States, the oldest still remaining. In addition to the Mall, 2,400 residential units have been built in the town center and 700,000 square feet (65,000 m²) of office and research and development space have been built. The White Marsh Library opened on January 25, 1988. It is part of the White Marsh Town Center, which includes the White Marsh Mall; the White Marsh Police Station, which opened in November 1987; the Nottingham Post Office, which opened in November 1990; and thousands of square feet
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"QWERTY"-style keyboard. Compucolor opened its first retail computer store in Norcross, Georgia USA in 1979. It was aptly named the "Compucolor Computer Store". The store had limited success in the six months of operation, and the store concept was abandoned. By 1983, Compucolor was out of business. Follow-on Compucolor II home/office computers were manufactured by Intelligent Systems Corporation, also of Norcross, Georgia USA. The computer and integrated monitor were built into a standard General Electric (GE) 13" color television set cabinet. These cabinets were procured without TV components and modified to house a custom set of video analog electronics, digital
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second store in Malaysia after Mutiara Damansara. Linked to the IKEA store is the "MyTown Shopping Centre", developed by the army-linked Boustead Group. There were many government quarters in this area since the 1930s, until demolition in 2011-2012 to make way for the construction of the aforementioned IKEA store and the Cochrane MRT station, part of the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line. Jalan Cochrane, Kuala Lumpur Jalan Cochrane is a road and a suburb in the Titiwangsa constituency of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was named after Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane (1876 - 1932), who served as British Resident of Perak (1929–1930)
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the gallery was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm in 2011-2012. She has presented research and lectures internationally at institutions including École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris, France; Parsons School of Design, New York, USA; the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark; Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany. Her book "Design by IKEA. A Cultural History" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) discussing the IKEA project, focusing on the 1980s and 1990s, when the company’s symbolic connection to Sweden was constructed and expressed in various ways. The ongoing commercial success has been founded on the
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also contains hills and woods. The district is known for many important businesses. It is also known for gardening. The Skaugum estate, where Crown Prince Haakon of Norway lives with his family, is situated here. The first IKEA store outside of Sweden opened at Slependen in Asker in 1963. There are many hiking/ sightseeing spots around Asker; such as Semsvannet lake and Drengsrud cultural path around the area. As part of the municipality reform process instigated by Minister of Local Government Jan Tore Sanner the municipalities of Asker, Hurum and Røyken evaluated if they should merge into a new common
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logistical hub for greater North Queensland. In June 2017 international Swedish furniture manufacturer and retailer IKEA opened a distribution point in the town's main business park. The town has a small shopping centre known as "Freshfields Plaza" whose major tenant is Woolworths, it also has a few specialty stores including a liquor store, hair and beauty store and a newsagency. Many of the towns retail stores, professional offices are clustered in the Main Street area. New developments are planned in coming years. One of the town's main industries is sugar growing. In the NW corner of the Central Business District
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RPX screens featuring Man of Steel in 3D. The IMAX & RPX also feature a separate entrance and concession stand. On January 4, 2015 it was announced via the Destiny USA website that Nordstrom, Inc. would be opening a Nordstrom Rack retail store. The 33,357-square-foot store opened in fall of 2015. The new store is located on the first level next to The Cheesecake Factory and across from the Armani Outlet. The Bon-Ton announced that it would close its store in the mall in late 2015. In June 2016, Sports Authority closed due to the company filing for bankruptcy. Destiny
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available as completed standard models. The majority of Super Dollfie models are now only available as limited editions, already assembled, painted, and fully clothed. Following the 2003 changes of the dolls, Volks expanded their business internationally. The same year they held the first Dolpa in South Korea, and also opened the first Korean store. In 2004 the Super Dollfie museum "Tenshi no Sato" was opened in Kyoto. In November 2005 Volks USA opened their first American Tenshi no Sumika store in Los Angeles, California, and they have been holding Dolpa events in New York City every summer since 2006. In
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store at Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra on 18 May 2017 and it is scheduled to open in January 2019. IKEA plans to open 5 stores in the state of Maharashtra and also build a distribution centre in Pune. Per Indian regulations, IKEA will have to locally source at least 30% of the products sold at its Indian stores. The company plans to open 25 stores across 8 cities in the country by 2025. It predicts that Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore will be the company's largest markets, while Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat and smaller cities will also receive IKEA stores. On
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