STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Furniture-maker
Ikea plans to hire tens of thousands of new workers as the company
continues to expand with dozens of stores opening around the world, the
company’s chief executive officer said in an interview published
yesterday.
“We have to hire at least around 10,000 people a year to meet our
ambition of continued growth,” Anders Dahlvig, CEO of the Ikea Group,
was quoted as saying in Swedish financial daily Dagens Industri.
Ikea’s U.S. headquarters are in Plymouth Meeting, Pa.
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Anders Dahlvig, IKEA CEO, IKEA expansion
“Ikea boss Anders Dahlvig said Monday the Swedish furniture giant was
confident of cracking Japan on its second attempt as thousands of
customers flocked to its new store east of Tokyo.
Ikea opened the
doors to one of its biggest stores, spanning 40,000 square metres
(430,000 square feet), with 10,000 product lines, 2,200 car parking
spaces, a child-care area and one of Tokyo’s largest restaurants.
The
new store, in Ikea’s trademark blue and yellow colours, marks Ikea’s
return to the world’s second-largest retail market after it withdrew 20
years ago having failed to win over Japan’s notoriously finicky
consumers.
“I think last time in the 1970s it was way too early to come to Japan,” said Dahlvig, Ikea group president and chief executive.”
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