Swedish furniture and homewares retailer continues Irish expansion with its biggest franchisee acquiring Greenogue Logistics Park in southwest Dublin
The retailer’s fitout of the building, which it said was “one of the most environmentally sustainable and energy efficient logistics facilities” in Ireland, will begin next week, said Marsha Smith, Ikea country deputy retail manager for the UK and Ireland.“We will start to receive stock into here towards the end of the year and then deliveries directly from here into customers’ homes will start early next year,” she said.
“That was the main objective, really, it was to provide us with a solution that meant we could be more efficient, we could be faster with deliveries and we could hold a lot more stock in Ireland,” Ms Smith said.Listen |The centre, which will hold 8,000 different Ikea products, will have the capacity to deliver 3 million items every year. Ikea forecasts that more than 300,000 orders will be delivered in its first year of operation, with this almost doubling within five years.
“We’ve been incredibly fortunate because we are seeing fantastic increases in both channels. We have the amazing store of Ballymun, that we are continuing to invest in. We are actually investing millions of euros this year and next year to make sure we keep that store to an amazing level,” Ms Smith said.
“We’re always looking, we’re always doing research, looking at where do we think another store will be successful, so watch this space.”
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