IKEA Plans Major Expansion
September 27th, 2006
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.
