List of IKEA stores
The original IKEA store was opened in Sweden in 1958. The first stores outside Sweden were opened in Norway (1963) and Denmark (1969). In the 1970s, stores spread to other parts of Europe, with the first store outside Scandinavia opening in Switzerland (1973), followed by Germany (1974). During the same decade, stores were opened in other parts of the world, including Japan, (1974), Australia and Hong Kong (1975), Canada (1976) and Singapore (1978). Germany, with 43 stores, is IKEA's biggest market, followed by the United States, with 35. IKEA now has 285 stores in 36 countries. However, the company has thus far not shown much of a presence in the developing countries.
The following List of IKEA stores is arranged by date of first store in each country.
Country |
Debut |
First store location |
No. Stores |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sweden |
1958 |
Älmhult |
17 |
Sweden has the world's largest IKEA (outside Stockholm; ). |
Norway |
1963 |
Asker (Nesbru) |
5 |
|
Denmark |
1969 |
Copenhagen (Ballerup) |
4 |
Ballerup store moved to Høje Tåstrup circa 1979. A 34.500 sq m large store to open on November 2009 in Odense |
Switzerland |
1973 |
Spreitenbach |
7 |
First IKEA outside of Scandinavia. |
Germany |
1974 |
Munich (Eching) |
43 |
IKEA's biggest market. |
Japan |
1974 |
Kobe |
4 |
A joint venture with a Japanese department store. IKEA withdrew from the market in 1986 because of stagnant sales, then returned in 2006 to Funabashi, Chiba under a distribution partnership with the Mitsubishi Corporation. Now in Japan there are four stores and in November 2008, one more store will open its doors. |
Australia |
1975 |
Sydney (Artarmon) |
5 |
The Sydney store moved to Rhodes during 2005-2006. Their stores in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide (Perth and Adelaide are a franchise owned by CEBAS Pty LTD). The Perth store has been relocated from Osborne Park to Innaloo as of 14 February 2008. |
Hong Kong |
1975 |
Kowloon (Tsim Sha Tsui) |
3 |
Original store is closed. As of 2007, IKEA has 3 stores and 1 warehouse in Hong Kong: Causeway Bay, Kowloon Bay, Shatin, and Sheung Shui. All are franchises owned by Dairy Farm International Holdings. |
Canada |
1976 |
Richmond, British Columbia |
11 |
Following opening of the Richmond (Metro Vancouver) store in 1976, stores were opened in Toronto (1977), Edmonton (1978), Calgary and Ottawa (1979) and Montreal (1982). As of 2008, there were a total of 11 stores in Canada spread among four provinces. |
Austria |
1977 |
Vienna (Vösendorf) |
6 |
A new store, the seventh of Austria, will have been opened by November 2008 in Klagenfurt. |
Singapore |
1978 |
Bukit Timah (Sixth Avenue) |
2 |
Original store moved to Katong in 1984, then to Alexandra Road in Queenstown in 1995. A second store opened in November 2006 in Tampines. |
The Netherlands |
1978 |
Sliedrecht |
12 |
Newest stores are in Haarlem and Amersfoort. The old store in Sliedrecht closed in 2006. |
Spain |
1980 |
Gran Canaria (Las Palmas) |
15 |
There are 11 stores on mainland Spain & 4 stores in the Canary Islands & the Balearic Islands. Website. |
Iceland |
1981 |
Reykjavík |
1 |
Replaced by a new store which opened in Garðabær in October 2006. |
France |
1981 |
Paris (Bobigny) |
23 |
With 7 stores, Paris has more IKEAs than any other city. |
Saudi Arabia |
1983 |
Jeddah |
3 |
Stores in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran. The Riyadh and Jeddah stores have been completely rebuilt in recent years. The store in Dhahran opened in 2008. |
Belgium |
1984 |
Brussels (Zaventem and Ternat) |
6 |
A new store, the seventh of Belgium, will have been opened by November 2008 in Gent. |
Kuwait |
1984 |
Kuwait City |
1 |
Opened in the industrial district of Shuwaikh in 1984; transferred to a significantly larger new facility at The Avenues (a shopping mall) in early 2007. |
United States |
1985 |
Plymouth Meeting |
35 |
Built in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania; has since moved to Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The original IKEA building is in the process of being demolished. Stores currently under development are Tampa in Florida and North Carolina's first store in Charlotte; the latest store opening as of August 2008 was IKEA's first store in New York City, namely in Brooklyn. On September 10, 2008, it was announced that IKEA would be opening a store in Centennial, Colorado. |
United Kingdom |
1987 |
Warrington, Cheshire |
18 |
The largest UK stores are in Croydon in London and at Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex, each with a capacity of . The newest stores were completed in December 2007 in Coventry city centre and at the Holywood Exchange in Belfast.. IKEA Leeds is in West Yorkshire In November 2007 a planning application was approved for an 18th store in Southampton, which opened on 12 February 2009. IKEA are also reported to be looking for a location in South Yorkshire. |
Italy |
1989 |
Milan (Cinisello Balsamo) |
15 |
Another 10 openings are planned for the next 5 years. |
Hungary |
1990 |
Budapest |
2 |
There are two stores in Hungary. One in the capital city Budapest and one in Budaörs. |
Poland |
1991 |
Warsaw (Janki) |
7 |
Warsaw has two stores (Janki & Targówek). There are also stores in Gdańsk, Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków, and Poznań. In August 2009 a new store will open in Łódź. |
Czech Republic |
1991 |
Prague (Budějovická) |
4 |
There are two IKEA stores in Prague - one at Zličín and one at Černý most. In the Czech Republic there are two more shops - in the second largest city of CZ, Brno, and in Ostrava. The first original store at Budějovická - Prague 4 was abandoned. Both Zličín and Černý most are located at the periphery of Prague and at the endstations of underground line B. |
United Arab Emirates |
1991 |
Dubai |
2 |
The U.A.E.'s stores are located in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The IKEA Store in Abu Dhabi is currently located at the Marina Mall. The Dubai store recently moved to the Festival Waterfront Centre. |
Slovakia |
1992 |
Bratislava |
1 |
Original store was closed upon the opening of a new store located in the Avion Shopping Park. |
Taiwan |
1994 |
Taipei |
4 |
|
Finland |
1996 |
Espoo |
3 |
New store in Vantaa in 2005, in Turku in 2008 and in Tampere 2009. Tampere store will be the biggest IKEA in Finland. |
Malaysia |
1996 |
Bandar Utama |
1 |
Re-located to Mutiara Damansara in 2003. The new IKEA store in Mutiara Damansara was the largest in Asia at that time with a shop floor area of approximately . |
China |
1998 |
Beijing |
6 |
Another two stores will have been opened by January 2009 in Dalian and Shanghai. |
Thailand |
2011 |
Bangkok |
1 |
Mega Bang Na will be on a 290-rai plot on the Bang Na-Trat KM 9, Kanchanaphisek outer ring road and will have a total space of about 200,000 square metres. Its features will include a 40,000-sq-m Ikea store, a department store, branded fashion outlets, restaurants, an IT centre, an entertainment centre and parking for 8,000 cars. Mr Huzell said Ikano plans to open two more Ikea stores in Thailand. |
Russia |
2000 |
Moscow (Khimki) |
11 |
There are 3 IKEA stores in Moscow (Khimki, Teply Stan and Belaya Dacha), 2 stores in St. Petersburg (Parnas and Dybenko), stores in Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don and Novaya Adygea (in Adygea near Krasnodar). There are also 11 MEGA malls developed by IKEA (3 in Moscow, 2 in St. Petersburg, in Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don and Novaya Adygea). IKEA stores and MEGA malls in Samara, Omsk, Ufa are under construction now. |
Israel |
2001 |
Netanya |
1 |
A second store was supposed to be constructed in Rishon LeZion. |
Greece |
2001 |
Thessaloniki |
3 |
First store opened in Thessaloniki on October 24, 2001. Second store opened in Athens (Airport Retail Park) on April 23, 2004. Third store, also in Athens (Egaleo), opened on March 26, 2008. Two new stores, in Larissa and Ioannina, are currently under development and are expected to open in 2009. Three more stores are planned by 2013: a third store in Athens (possibly in Elefsina) and two stores in smaller cities, possibly Heraklion and Patras. |
Portugal |
2004 |
Lisbon (Alfragide) |
2 |
Second store opened on July 31, 2007 in Matosinhos, with . |
Turkey |
2005 |
Istanbul |
4 |
There are two stores are in Istanbul (Bayrampaşa and Ümraniye), one store in İzmir (Bornova) and one store in Bursa (Osmangazi). |
Romania |
2007 |
Bucharest (Băneasa) |
1 |
store opened on March 21, 2007 in Baneasa "Feeria" Shopping Center. The second store will be opened in 2009, in Iaşi, in Era Shopping Park. Other stores are planned to be opened in Bucharest, Braşov, Cluj-Napoca, Constanţa, Galaţi and Timişoara by 2013. |
Cyprus |
2007 |
Nicosia (Strovolos) |
1 |
store opened in September 2007. |
Bulgaria |
2009 |
Sofia |
0 |
The first Bulgarian IKEA store is expected to open doors in 2009 in Sofia. |
Dominican Republic |
2009 |
Santo Domingo |
0 |
The first Dominican IKEA store is expected to open in 2009 in Santo Domingo. It will be the first IKEA store in Latin America. |
Ireland |
2009 |
Dublin (Ballymun) |
0 |
The first IKEA store in the Republic of Ireland, and the second on the island of Ireland, was intended to be opened in 2007 but due to conditions imposed by the local authority, its construction was severely delayed. On 2007-06-13 the Irish Planning Board, An Bord Pleanála, finally gave the go ahead for the store.. Although development of the store has commenced, conditions imposed by the Planning Board could force the completed store to remain closed until 2010. IKEA then opened their ROI homepage with a more ambitious opening date of 2009. and have since stated the store will be finished in February 2009, enabling them to open as soon as conditions allow them to do so. The IKEA Ireland site now states that the store is opening on the 27th July 2009. |
Serbia |
2011 |
Belgrade |
0 |
IKEA is reported to be looking for a site in Belgrade to open Serbia's first store. There are three possible lot locations all 25 ha in size. www.ikea.rs |
Ukraine |
Fall 2011 |
Odessa |
0 |
IKEA has acquired land for store in Odessa, but construction hasn't started yet. |
New Zealand |
TBA |
Manukau |
0 |
IKEA has bid for a 10 acre site next to the Pacific Events Centre. |