IKEA has revealed its plans for opening a new IKEA shopping center in the city of Gurgaon, which will be the first center to be opened in India. The Primary investment of this project is estimated a bit round of €400 million,  and the construction will start in early 2022. The new place is expected to generate more than 2500 jobs.

Peter Betzel, CEO, and CSO, IKEA India said, “We are happy to announce our very first establishment of brand new IKEA store in Gurugram in collaborating with Ingka Centres. India is an exciting country for IKEA, and we have a long-term commitment to reach many people with our omnichannel approach. Delhi NCR will be one of our biggest and most important markets in India and we can’t wait to meet and inspire the people in that region with a wide range of our beautiful, affordable, well-designed, and sustainable home furnishing products and solutions.”

“We welcome IKEA and Ingka Centres to the state of Haryana. We look forward to this partnership with IKEA and Ingka Centres to build organized home furnishing retail and meet the growing needs of consumers in the State and the region surrounded by. We strongly believe in the Heart 2 Heart Approach, over just having business relations with the investors. This step is yet another validation of our development plans for the region.” Haryana CM Manohar Lal said”.

Ingka Centres in February announced it had bought a plot in Noida on the outskirts of Delhi and planned to invest nearly 55 billion rupees in its first shopping centre in India. The Noida store would hopefully open shortly after Gurugram, Andersen said in an interview.IKEA opened its first store in India in 2018, in Hyderabad.