Clint Engel
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PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea will relocate its North American corporate offices late this year to new space next to its Conshohocken store \u00e2\u20ac\u201d one exit down Interstate 476 from its current location in Plymouth Township.<\/p>\n
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The three-level, 75,000-sqare-foot headquarters is under construction on four acres along Alan Wood Road on the southwestern side of the 325,000-square-foot Conshohocken store, which replaced Ikea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Plymouth Meeting store in January 2003.
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When it opens in November or December, the facility will replace the roughly 60,000-square-foot current office and be home to about 350 employee in various departments including retail management, sales, marketing, retail expansion, distribution and purchasing.<\/p>\n
Ikea said the new space \u00e2\u20ac\u0153will accommodate the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current structure and allow it to meet the professional and technological needs that have arisen in the past 20 years.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Ikea began leasing space at it current location in 1986, gradually increasing it square footage until it acquired the property in 1995.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153While we conceptually are the same company we were 20 years ago, the size and functionality of our organization and office needs have grown and changed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Pernille Lopez, Ikea North America president. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is exciting to have a new office that we can plan from the ground up \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with plenty of meeting rooms, technological amenities and a more efficient use of space.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The company would not disclose its investment in the new building.<\/p>\n
Ikea operates more than 230 stores in 33 countries, including 27 in the United States and 11 in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Clint Engel 75,000 square foot building under way PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea will relocate its North American corporate offices late this year to new space next to its Conshohocken store \u00e2\u20ac\u201d one exit down Interstate 476 from its current location in Plymouth Township. The three-level, 75,000-sqare-foot headquarters is under construction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}