{"id":4619,"date":"2025-12-08T18:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/ikea-opens-its-farthest-store-from-sweden-in-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:46:37","slug":"ikea-opens-its-farthest-store-from-sweden-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/ikea-opens-its-farthest-store-from-sweden-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA opens its farthest store from Sweden in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

IKEA opened its first store in New Zealand<\/a> on Thursday, entering its 64th market and marking the furniture retailer\u2019s most distant outpost from its native Sweden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The long-awaited 366-square-foot store at the Sylvia Park shopping center in Auckland employs 500 people and is IKEA\u2019s 505th store.<\/p>\n

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IKEA\u2019s New Zealand expansion was announced in 2019 and comes 50 years after opening in neighboring Australia<\/a>. IKEA now operates in 64 markets around the world.<\/p>\n

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People line up outside the new IKEA store on Thursday.<\/span>Phil Walter \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

IKEA franchisee Ingka Group said the opening, which drew thousands of people, was special given New Zealand\u2019s distance from Sweden.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a real leap of faith, investment and friendship, showing we\u2019re not just exporting a store, we\u2019re planting roots for the long term, creating jobs, learning from local communities and tailoring our offer for Kiwi homes,\u201d Retail Manager Tolga Oncu said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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People enter the new shop in Auckland.<\/span>Phil Walter \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon<\/a> said IKEA\u2019s new store created jobs and competition which benefits consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IKEA opened its first store in New Zealand on Thursday, entering its 64th market and marking the furniture retailer\u2019s most distant outpost from its native Sweden. The long-awaited 366-square-foot store at the Sylvia Park shopping center in Auckland employs 500 people and is IKEA\u2019s 505th store. IKEA\u2019s New Zealand expansion was announced in 2019 and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}