Mumbai, Jul 27: IKEA (part of the Ingka Group), the world’s leading Swedish home furnishings retailer, will open the doors to its third store in city at R CITY Mall on Thursday.
The IKEA R CITY store is going to be IKEA’s fifth store in India.
With a planned investment of Rs 6,000 crore in Maharashtra. IKEA is expecting to attract close to four million visitors this year in Mumbai.
Spread across 72,000 sq ft, IKEA R CITY offers over 7,000 well-designed, affordable, good quality, functional and sustainable home furnishing products. And other 5,000 plus products that will be delivered to them, and they can buy 2,000 products directly from the stores.
The store will have iconic 15 room sets for ideas and inspirations to live a better life at home. It will also house a 150-seater restaurant serving a mix of Swedish. And Indian delicacies with many vegetarian options to choose from.
IKEA has employed 180 co-workers with 76 per cent local co-workers and plans to hire more people from the local neighborhood.
