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Ikea Ikea is looking into the possibility of building a furniture superstore at the Crane engineering site in Ipswich, with the creation of up to 500 jobs. 03-Mar-2008 Ikea is considering plans to shed up to 300 management jobs from the 9,000-strong workforce in its UK home furnishings retailing business. 11-Jul-2007 Ikea is said to planning to set up a furniture superstore at the former Pirelli cable site in Southampton. 08-Jan-2007 Ikea is to sell prefabricated timber-framed houses in the UK, under the name of BoKloks, with the first being built in Gateshead and Glasgow from early 2007. 04-Dec-2006 Ikea is to submit plans for a new furniture store at the Holywood Exchange in Belfast, with the creation of 400 jobs. 25-Jan-2006 Ikea has won planning permission to build a new furniture store at Tameside in Manchester by October, with the creation of 500 jobs. 13-Jan-2006 Ikea has announced plans to open ten new furniture stores across the country over the next three years, with a greater emphasis on city centre sites. 11-Jan-2006 Ikea is planning to invest £150m in the expansion of its chain of UK furniture stores, including the introduction of mezzanine floors and up to 25 new stores over the next ten years. 10-Oct-2005 Ikea is planning to build a 230,000 sq ft furniture store in Coventry city centre, with the creation of 500 jobs. 07-Jul-2005 Ikea has won planning permission from Sefton Council to build a furniture store in Netherton, Merseyside, with the creation of up to 600 jobs. 04-Jul-2005 Ikea has submitted plans for a town centre store in Hillingdon, as part of a strategy to establish a chain of smaller furniture stores in towns and cities across the country. 20-Jun-2005 Ikea has identified nine suitable locations for a new small store format, which should help the furniture retailer avoid planning difficulties encountered with the larger format. 31-Jan-2005 Ikea is seeking permission to build a furniture superstore on the site of the former Peerless Edible oils factory on Merseyside, with the creation of 500 jobs. 02-Nov-2004 Ikea has announced plans to build a furniture distribution warehouse in Walsall, with the creation of 50 jobs. 01-Nov-2004 Ikea has submitted plans to build a furniture store in Doncaster, creating up to 500 jobs. 17-Sep-2004 Ikea has won permission to build a 300,000 sq ft furniture store in Edmonton, north London, by the end of 2004, with the creation of up to 500 jobs. 08-Dec-2003 Ikea has won permission to extend its furniture store in Warrington, with the creation of 100 jobs. 13-Nov-2003 Ikea has launched a recruitment drive for 380 staff for its new furniture store in Cardiff, which is due to open in November. 19-Jun-2003 Ikea has submitted plans to build a furniture store at Grange Park, near Northampton, with the creation of 600 jobs. 24-Sep-2002 Ikea is seeking permission to build a furniture distribution centre in Stanton, Suffolk, with the creation of 300 jobs. 29-Mar-2002 Ikea is planning to invest £50m extending its 11 UK stores by up to 25% over the next five years. 14-Jan-2002 Ikea is in discussions with the local council about possible sites for a new furniture store in Exeter, and sites are also being sought in Leicester, Luton, Milton Keynes, Sheffield, Gloucester and Brighton. 11-Jul-2001 Ikea has announced plans to invest £100m in two new furniture stores in Sheffield and Southampton and a distribution centre in Peterborough, with the creation of 1,450 jobs. 04-May-2001 Ikea is planning to develop a £40m central distribution hub at Hampton near Peterborough, to support the expansion of its chain of furniture stores. 02-Apr-2001 Ikea is planning to set up a £30m furniture store and call centre in Stockport by May 2003, with the creation of 600 jobs. 28-Mar-2001 Ikea is to open a new call centre for its furniture retailing business at Wath in South Yorkshire's Dearne Valley, with the creation of 150 jobs. 19-Mar-2001 Ikea has announced plans to build its first furniture store in Wales, creating 500 jobs at the Lattice gas works site next to the Cardiff Bay Retail Park. 05-Mar-2001 Ikea has won permission to build a £20m furniture store at the Braehead shopping centre near Glasgow, which will create about 500 jobs. 15-Nov-2000 Ikea is considering plans to build separate warehouses and showrooms in order to reduce queues at its existing furniture outlets and to reach its target of adding 20 new stores over the next ten years. 11-Sep-2000 Ikea is seeking a suitable site for a new furniture store in Sheffield, which will create up to 500 jobs. 17-Aug-2000 Ikea is planning to build 20 new furniture stores in the UK over the next ten years at a cost of £800m, with the creation of up to 12,000 jobs. 19-Jun-2000 Ikea is seeking permission to build a new furniture distribution centre at Armthorpe in South Yorkshire, with the creation of 200 jobs. 06-Mar-2000 Ikea has expressed interest in setting up a furniture store at the planned £50m Tipner retail development in Portsmouth, but the project has not yet been submitted to Portsmouth City Council for planning consent. 01-Jul-1999 Huntingdonshire District Council is to consider plans for a road and rail freight distribution centre at the former Alconbury airbase, and the furniture company Ikea has said it would create up to 200 jobs at the site. 11-Feb-1999 Ikea is planning to build a £20m furniture superstore in Glasgow. 04-Feb-1999 Ikea is planning to open a new furniture store in Eastville, Bristol, next April, creating 350 jobs. 02-Sep-1998 Ikea, the home furnishings retailer, has awarded a £20m contract to Christian Salvesen to operate its first UK distribution centre. 09-Feb-1998 Ikea is planning its first home furnishings store in the south west, having bought the Bristol stadium and Eastgate retail park. 19-Nov-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008