A map that shows you how IKEA's stores grew globally in 70 years over the world

ByUlf Bodin

About 70 years from the establishment of IKEA in 1943 to the present as 2014, the IKEA store is born around the world. 8 stores have already opened in Japan, but how have you deployed the IKEA store all over the world? That means that the map that understands by pushing the play button is "IKEA store openings"is.

IKEA store openings
http://mike-barker.com/ikea/


IKEA Click the rebirth button to see the history of 70 years. You can manually operate by scrolling with the mouse.


I founded IKEA in 1943. The chronology on the right side flows ... ...


Fifteen years after its founding, in 1958, the yellow spot fell down on the map and it became the first shop in SwedenÄlmhultThe store is open.


This is the first store

ByFile: IKEA Store Elmhult.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 10 years or so, we opened 7 stores mainly in Northern Europe. You can zoom in to the place you right clicked on the map and zoom out by left click.


The first Swiss Zurich shop opened in 1973.ScandinaviaIKEA will be born in Hong Kong shops, Australia and Canada.


Due to its low price and design, IKEA has become a popular furniture store all over the world and the Philadelphia shop, which will be the first US shop in the United States for the first time in 1985, opens.


IKEA, which will advance worldwide one after another in 3 to 5 stores a year, has opened a German · Essen store, which is the 100th store to commemorate in 1993.


In just ten years thereafter, the IKEA store around the world has grown to 200 stores twice.


Tokyo funabashi store & Kohoku store finally landed in Japan in 2006. It is now IKEA, which is familiar in Japan, but it seems that it was considerably late development on a global scale.


Kobe Port Island shop opened in 2008 after two years.

I went to "IKEA Port Island" in Kansai's first shop ~ entrance edition ~ - GIGAZINE
http://gigazine.net/news/20080414_ikea_open/


I went to "IKEA Port Island" in the Kansai first-run store ~ ​​In-store edition ~ - GIGAZINE
http://gigazine.net/news/20080414_ikea_shopping/


I went to "IKEA Port Island" in the Kansai first-run store ~ ​​meal version - - GIGAZINE
http://gigazine.net/news/20080414_ikea_food/


I went to "IKEA Port Island" in Kansai's first shop ~ Escape edition ~ - GIGAZINE
http://gigazine.net/news/20080414_ikea_escape/


The number of stores is only two years and 50 stores have also increased, and if you zoom out, you can see that the stores are concentrated in Europe.


In 2009 the Tokyo Shinmisato store opens and the number of stores to 300 stores. Momentum does not know where to stay.


As of 2014, IKEA stores around the world total 338 stores. Looking at the world map, we have not advanced to Africa, South America, Russia, Asia is only Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, so we have plenty of room for further development in the future.


By the way, the IKEA store in Japan is currently in Tokyo 2014Tachikawa storeKanagawaKohoku storeSaitamaShinmisato store· ChibaFunabashi store·Sendai store·Kobe store·OsakaTsuruhama store·FukuokaShingu branchIt is 7 stores in total.