Ikea Shanghai in Beicai is the largest IKEA in Asia, and covers 49,400 sq meters with 2000 parking spaces. It is the second largest IKEA found in the world. The IKEA Skarholmen close to Stockholm is the largest. The IKEA in Beicai town in Pudong is 1,300 sq meters bigger than the Xuhui IKEA that is currently found in Shanghai. Shanghai is the only city within China that has more than one of these superstores.
The Ikea Shanghai Beicai contains sixty different showrooms, including 57 fully furnished rooms and three entire home layouts using IKEA products. The store carries a full range of home furnishings which are both stylish and affordable. The Ikea Shanghai store in Beicai also includes a restaurant with seating for 760 people and a menu consisting of the Swedish dishes for which IKEA is famed, such as meatballs as well as local favorites like cold water shrimp, almond cake and marinated salmon.
The range of products for the home on offer at Ikea Shanghai include storage units and furniture for every room in the home, including beds, sofas, chairs, desks and other furnishings, along with rugs, textiles, a full line of Ikea children items, cutlery, glassware and other items for the kitchen and many other products for the home and office.
The Ikea Shanghai store offers their IKEA FAMILY members a complimentary coffee from the IKEA restaurant on Mondays to Fridays excluding holidays with their IKEA FAMILY card. IKEA also offers a rental transport for customers to get their new home furnishings to their home. A customer can also hire the services of IKEA to deliver their furnishings for them.
There are other services offered to customers at the Ikea Shanghai Beicai. Customers with children can use supervised playrooms where meals may also be provided, food warming facilities, pushchairs for young children as well as baby care rooms. Height and age restrictions apply to the use of these rooms and the facilities may be limited at especially busy times. Another services offered by the Ikea Shanghai is custom curtains. Shoppers may select their fabric from the textiles department and provide the staff with the measurements needed and custom curtains will be made - and if needed, they may be delivered as well, all for a nominal fee.
Ikea Shanghai also offers any customer low cost assembly services if they want to have their furniture assembled at their office or home. If a customer changes their mind about a product after purchasing, they can bring their unused product in the original packaging with the invoice or receipt back to the IKEA store within sixty days. Ikea Shanghai will exchange their product or refund the original payment. This does not apply to a bargain corner item, plants or altered merchandise.
The history of IKEA started back in 1926 when the founder, Ingvar Kamprad was born in Sweden. When he was 5 years old, he started to sell matches. By the 1940s and 1950s Ingvar developed IKEA as a furniture retailer for self assembly furniture design. By the 1980s IKEA had expanded towards the UK, France, Italy and USA. The 1990s saw the introduction of children's IKEA and in the 2000s IKEA expanded into Russia and Japan, with partnerships regarding environmental and social projects.
The new Ikea Shangai in Beicai is located in an area which is targeted for further commercial development during the upcoming 5 year plan for Shanghai and IKEA has announced its intentions to open an additional six stores in China in the next four years. Another IKEA store is planned for Shanghai, in the Baoshan district and is slated to open in 2014.
The Ikea Shanghai Beicai contains sixty different showrooms, including 57 fully furnished rooms and three entire home layouts using IKEA products. The store carries a full range of home furnishings which are both stylish and affordable. The Ikea Shanghai store in Beicai also includes a restaurant with seating for 760 people and a menu consisting of the Swedish dishes for which IKEA is famed, such as meatballs as well as local favorites like cold water shrimp, almond cake and marinated salmon.
The range of products for the home on offer at Ikea Shanghai include storage units and furniture for every room in the home, including beds, sofas, chairs, desks and other furnishings, along with rugs, textiles, a full line of Ikea children items, cutlery, glassware and other items for the kitchen and many other products for the home and office.
The Ikea Shanghai store offers their IKEA FAMILY members a complimentary coffee from the IKEA restaurant on Mondays to Fridays excluding holidays with their IKEA FAMILY card. IKEA also offers a rental transport for customers to get their new home furnishings to their home. A customer can also hire the services of IKEA to deliver their furnishings for them.
There are other services offered to customers at the Ikea Shanghai Beicai. Customers with children can use supervised playrooms where meals may also be provided, food warming facilities, pushchairs for young children as well as baby care rooms. Height and age restrictions apply to the use of these rooms and the facilities may be limited at especially busy times. Another services offered by the Ikea Shanghai is custom curtains. Shoppers may select their fabric from the textiles department and provide the staff with the measurements needed and custom curtains will be made - and if needed, they may be delivered as well, all for a nominal fee.
Ikea Shanghai also offers any customer low cost assembly services if they want to have their furniture assembled at their office or home. If a customer changes their mind about a product after purchasing, they can bring their unused product in the original packaging with the invoice or receipt back to the IKEA store within sixty days. Ikea Shanghai will exchange their product or refund the original payment. This does not apply to a bargain corner item, plants or altered merchandise.
The history of IKEA started back in 1926 when the founder, Ingvar Kamprad was born in Sweden. When he was 5 years old, he started to sell matches. By the 1940s and 1950s Ingvar developed IKEA as a furniture retailer for self assembly furniture design. By the 1980s IKEA had expanded towards the UK, France, Italy and USA. The 1990s saw the introduction of children's IKEA and in the 2000s IKEA expanded into Russia and Japan, with partnerships regarding environmental and social projects.
The new Ikea Shangai in Beicai is located in an area which is targeted for further commercial development during the upcoming 5 year plan for Shanghai and IKEA has announced its intentions to open an additional six stores in China in the next four years. Another IKEA store is planned for Shanghai, in the Baoshan district and is slated to open in 2014.
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