Ikea In Hyderabad

Ikea said it will open its second Indian store on December 18, seeking to woo the nation's growing middle class with Swedish functionality and a dash of local masala.

A fire alarm at the IKEA store in Hyderabad on Sunday night triggered panic and led hundreds of customers and employees to rush out of the store, police said. Later, it proved to be a false alarm.

After a gap of nearly five months, vegetarian biryani returned to the menu of Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA on Thursday.

The country's software capital Bengaluru will have a massive IKEA store -- the third in the county - by 2020. The Swedish furniture and home products giant had opened its first store in Hyderabad two months ago. The second is expected to come up at Mumbai next year.

A little over two weeks after a customer tweeted that he found a caterpillar in a plate of biryani served at a restaurant of the newly-opened IKEA store in Hyderabad, another customer has gone to town with a video of what he claims is an insect crawling in a piece of cake he ordered from the same restaurant.

IKEA India on Wednesday said it has stopped selling vegetable biryani and samosa in its 1,000 seater restaurant located at its store in Hyderabad, days after a customer allegedly found a worm in the food served to him.

Three weeks ago, the queues crawled as people made a beeline for the newly opened Ikea showroom in Hyderabad. But last week, a customer claimed he found a different crawler in the in-house restaurant of the Swedish furniture giant's first Indian store.

There was a large crowd that impatiently waited to take a sneak peek of the IKEA store in India, Hyderabad, leading to a stampede-like situation.

It seemed all roads led to India's first IKEA store that opened in Hyderabad today. Outside was a huge traffic jam and inside people were lapping up a global shopping experience with a local touch. The Swedish home furnishing giant's debut is the direct outcome of less stringent foreign investment norms in India.

Ikea spent 12 years studying India and visited 1,000 homes in major cities to see how its people lived. Today, as a few dozen early shoppers walked through the doors as the emporium opened in Hyderabad, the acid test began of whether the furniture giant understands what Indian consumers want.

Buoyed by the rapid growth of the retail sector, leading Swedish home furnishings retailer IKEA plans to increase its investments in the country.

Five years, commitment of 30 per cent local sourcing and a planned investment of Rs 10,500 crore is what Swedish furniture retailer Ikea had to make to launch its first store in India. The long-awaited Ikea store opened on Thursday in a 13-acre complex in the heart of HITEC City, Hyderabad. It has not been an easy journey - Ikea India launch was mu...

Before IKEA opened doors to its Instagrammable Hyderabad store, the Swedish furniture giant's first in the country, there was the traditional staff brekkie at its 1,000-seat cafeteria, among India's largest. The co-worker breakfast is in line with the brand's values, including togetherness and team spirit.

Iconic Swedish homeware brand IKEA opened its first store in India today, in Hyderabad, five years after it was allowed to invest in the country's single-brand retail sector. Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao inaugurated the store. The first of the eager shoppers - nearly 200 of them - rushed in through the lobby of the 4 lakh-square feet store as...

Ikea's first Indian outlet opened on Thursday, with more than 200 eager shoppers queueing in the underground car park to escape the heat as a military band played a crowd-pleasing medley inside.

Ikea said it will open its second Indian store on December 18, seeking to woo the nation's growing middle class with Swedish functionality and a dash of local masala.

A fire alarm at the IKEA store in Hyderabad on Sunday night triggered panic and led hundreds of customers and employees to rush out of the store, police said. Later, it proved to be a false alarm.

After a gap of nearly five months, vegetarian biryani returned to the menu of Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA on Thursday.

The country's software capital Bengaluru will have a massive IKEA store -- the third in the county - by 2020. The Swedish furniture and home products giant had opened its first store in Hyderabad two months ago. The second is expected to come up at Mumbai next year.

A little over two weeks after a customer tweeted that he found a caterpillar in a plate of biryani served at a restaurant of the newly-opened IKEA store in Hyderabad, another customer has gone to town with a video of what he claims is an insect crawling in a piece of cake he ordered from the same restaurant.

IKEA India on Wednesday said it has stopped selling vegetable biryani and samosa in its 1,000 seater restaurant located at its store in Hyderabad, days after a customer allegedly found a worm in the food served to him.

Three weeks ago, the queues crawled as people made a beeline for the newly opened Ikea showroom in Hyderabad. But last week, a customer claimed he found a different crawler in the in-house restaurant of the Swedish furniture giant's first Indian store.

There was a large crowd that impatiently waited to take a sneak peek of the IKEA store in India, Hyderabad, leading to a stampede-like situation.

It seemed all roads led to India's first IKEA store that opened in Hyderabad today. Outside was a huge traffic jam and inside people were lapping up a global shopping experience with a local touch. The Swedish home furnishing giant's debut is the direct outcome of less stringent foreign investment norms in India.

Ikea spent 12 years studying India and visited 1,000 homes in major cities to see how its people lived. Today, as a few dozen early shoppers walked through the doors as the emporium opened in Hyderabad, the acid test began of whether the furniture giant understands what Indian consumers want.

Buoyed by the rapid growth of the retail sector, leading Swedish home furnishings retailer IKEA plans to increase its investments in the country.

Five years, commitment of 30 per cent local sourcing and a planned investment of Rs 10,500 crore is what Swedish furniture retailer Ikea had to make to launch its first store in India. The long-awaited Ikea store opened on Thursday in a 13-acre complex in the heart of HITEC City, Hyderabad. It has not been an easy journey - Ikea India launch was mu...

Before IKEA opened doors to its Instagrammable Hyderabad store, the Swedish furniture giant's first in the country, there was the traditional staff brekkie at its 1,000-seat cafeteria, among India's largest. The co-worker breakfast is in line with the brand's values, including togetherness and team spirit.

Iconic Swedish homeware brand IKEA opened its first store in India today, in Hyderabad, five years after it was allowed to invest in the country's single-brand retail sector. Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao inaugurated the store. The first of the eager shoppers - nearly 200 of them - rushed in through the lobby of the 4 lakh-square feet store as...

Ikea's first Indian outlet opened on Thursday, with more than 200 eager shoppers queueing in the underground car park to escape the heat as a military band played a crowd-pleasing medley inside.