Ikea in Cyprus??

One good thing is that they [IKEA] will help lower some of the other prices.

Ag

found Anglo info as I was looking for a forum to ask advice of buying furniture in Cyprus. I have bought a house for rental and looking for advice on good priced Ikea style, so far I am finding stuff in Cyprus expensive. I get my house March next year, will Ikea be open, if not does anybody have any advice of a good place to shop

Jane

I'm also really interested when IKEA will be opened in Cyprus.

I don't get it. There's something wrong with my salary or people live on the floor :)

Hi I have just bought a house in Kitti in cyprus and as most of you are looking to buy furniture for it.

After searching the net and not finding any concrete info of when the ikea in Nicosia Cyprus may open I decided to email customer services at ikea's Greek branch.

This is the email which I received which I hope will help everyone wishing to no when ikea may be open.

Dear Mr Thompson,

Thank you for your interest in our stores.

We would like to inform you that it is in our plans to open an IKEA store in spring 2007, in Nicosia.

Unfortunately, we do not have the exact opening date yet.

I’m at your disposal for any further information.

Best regards

Eleni Polykarpou

Marketing Department

great to get this e-mail. just back from Cyprus and just cant get over the prices for furniture. My house is due to be finished in March, I am going to try and hold off buying anything  to see what happens in spring

Jane

Hi all, having started this discussion some time ago its nice to finally have some definitive news. I must say a hell of a lot of people have viewed this link so I might just go and buy some Ikea shares. Anyway, I digress, the news is that Ikea will open in Q2 2007 at the Shacolas retail park in Nicosia. Maps and details available at the following weblink http://www.woolworthgroup.com.cy/ittl.html

Happy shopping

Noticed there has not been any news on this posting for some time. I am at the stage where I need to start buying furniture for my house.Does anybody have any more news on when Ikea might be opening,or how I can find out.

Thanks

Jane

This is great news. Our house should be finished in April and I plan to come across in May to furnish it, so will be doing this in Ikea. Just need to find out about hiring vans in Cyprus now.

Jane

Hi Jane. If you find a van rental company i'd like to hear about it. Everyone seems to hire just cars. If anyone else knows please give us some details.

Would love Ikea in Nicosia to be opened before we take over our apartment this summer but we are fearful? Got the feeling it wont be ready. Not usually pessimistic but........ Any advice about shipping Ikea furniture out? What is the best/cheapest way? Would love to hear from you who have experience!!

Towser

My granddaughters school in Larnaca have sent notes home saying that Ikea is opening in June and thay are hoping to have a trip there for the mothers. We went to a office in Larnaca and ordered all our furniture from the current Argos catalogue we had to pay 15% on top of the price and the price in the catalogue we had to pay in Cyprus pounds, it was worth it as household items are very expensive. My large furniture items took 5 weeks to arrive although they say between 6-8 weeks. I have now ordered another load for all the odds and ends I forgot the first time round. Also there is a Marks & Spencer's home store just as you get into Nicosia. Hope this helps anyone and if anyone wants the address of the Argos office I can find out for them. Happy shopping.

I checked on IKEA webiste & there still isnt an opening date, even though it was said in previous posts its due for Spring '07. I would like to apply for work there but does anyone have any idea who I should contact?

Great news for IKEA fans!!!

IKEA Nicosia is opening in JUNE 2007 confirmed on website.

http://franchisor.ikea.com/showContent.asp?swfId=facts2

Dear All,

You will be delighted to know that IKEA's planned opening is at the end of June 2007, yes in 2.5 months time!

Rgds

I wouldn't count on the end of June, the place hasn't been finished with construction yet!

It's good though, not only is Ikea being opened but this will also be a major shopping mall! With a lot of decent clothes lines from the USA, Europe and the UK! Can't wait.

It's only just outside Latsia, on the round about coming from Nicosia to the New Genral Hospital (on your right just before the hospital)

http://franchisor.ikea.com/showContent.asp?swfId=facts2

Dear Ikea fans,

Here is a link to the IKEA website which states that the opening date in Nicosia, Cyprus is now September 2007

Boohoo!! Come on IKEA!!! It looks like your losing some serious money here!!! We want to spend spend spend!!!!

My mum and I have been granted some cash to spend off our partners....no cards allowed though lol!!!!!

Hurry up IKEA!

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_GB/virtual_catalogue/online_catalogues.html

http://ikeaeu2.ecweb.is/ikea07/muk/

click on either

about two months ago there was Cyprus link on the Ikea home page, where you could view a Cypriot version of the catalogue. Does not seem to be there. Don't know why. Do we have an opening date yet. I am coming over for first two weeks in September and really want to buy bits and pieces for my house.

Jane

Dear Logie & Cheer2555,

I had a look on website & also couldnt find a link to view cyp catalogue. Will keep checking.

TIP: What I tend to do is look at the Greece one, (as apparently its the same franchise company) & then convert the EURO prices to Cypriot which gives me an approximate idea.

But hey.... roll on September!!!

Marie

maribob,

where did you order your catalogue from?

XXX

They are being delivered free & in a tiny carrier bag!! (I presume every household will have one shortly). My whole block has a copy (Larnaca, Makenzie) & so do the surrounding blocks or so i have been told.

hi

we also got the free catologue but if you notice the prices are until the end of august!!!!!!!!!

ikea is now going to open on the 6th sept read it in the paper, they have a small delay!

does this also mean the shopping mall will be open ?

[...IMAGE...] THE CYPRUS branch of international low-cost furniture store IKEA will open in Nicosia on September 6 – one day later than previously announced.

If the press conference is anything to go by, IKEA’s products will be modern, aesthetically pleasing and slightly difficult to assemble. Despite the user-friendliness boasted by the Swedish company, members of the media needed about 20 minutes to prepare a simple chair and others were not able to get a table up off the Hilton floor.

The official date was announced at an elaborate news conference yesterday. The island is one of three new European locations where IKEA is opening its doors to in 2007.

The budget retail furniture store will be located in the Shacolas Emporium Park in Latsia and will employ up to 500 people, said Voula Tsangarides, Communications & PR director of Marketway Advertising. Though it hasn’t even opened its doors, the store currently has 300 hundred employees.

As well as the 20,000m2 IKEA store, the park will also accommodate the highly anticipated ‘Mall of Cyprus’, food and clothing outlets, a cinema and two other retail buildings. As part of its philosophy, the store aims to be family-friendly offering a restaurant, play area and 800 parking spaces.

IKEA’s concept is to provide affordable and modern quality furniture that consumers put together themselves, though an optional delivery and assembly service will be available. The privately owned retailer, founded in Sweden in 1943, has already taken Western Europe and the US by storm. With stores in 35 countries, the company is an international household name. Half a billion consumers have visited IKEA’s 260 stores worldwide. It has opened two stores in Greece. Along with the 40 million euro Cyprus store, a second Athens branch is expected to open within the next year.

The Swedish furniture giant prides itself in its philosophy of “honest pricing.” “You do your part, we do our part and together we save money,” IKEA officials stated at yesterday’s news conference.

The IKEA brand maintains a fixed international consumer based policy ensuring that prices generally remain the same – and “as low as possible” – in all branches throughout the year, said Tsangarides.

She added that: “There might be a slight difference in some countries depending on taxes, transportation, etc. It is safe to say that the prices in Cyprus will be comparable with those in Greece.”

The Greece and Cyprus IKEA stores are owned by Greek franchise group Fourlis, the company’s president, Vassilis Fourlis, attended the new conference and will reportedly be at the Cyprus store’s opening.

I have been logging on to this forum for sometime as I have bought a holiday house in Cyprus. I am shocked and at the attitude of some of the English people.

You are in Cyprus, if all things English why did you not stay in England.

Ikea is a Swedish company, think yourselves lucky the is not printed in Swedish.

Who reads it anyway, you just look at the pictures and prices.

Jane

P.S. I really hope Cyprus NEVER gets a Tesco

Well said Logie & Achilleas.

Just wait for the opening day & enjoy the meatballs!!

Just look at the pictures !

I haven't received mine yet as I have a PO Box so don't know if they will send there or not. I've downloaded the brochure as a PDF file from the site.

Ikea finally has opened in Nicosia!! Yippee!!

I was pleasantly surprised that I had no trouble finding a parking space, & there was hardly no traffic. Maybe this was because it was a week day. I dread to think what it might be like today (Saturday).

Loved the meatballs!

I wrote to Ikea to ask why the catalogue was only in Greek and this is the reply that I got.

"As you know, we are currently distributing the Maxi Brochure, which is in Greek and has a price validity until the end of September. Then, our big annual Catalogue will come, which will be in Greek again. For our first year of operation, we have decided to go only with the Greek language.

As we respect the British community in Cyprus, we are looking into an English version of the next Catalogue to be distributed in September 2008.

We are sorry for any problems that this might create and look forward to welcome you to our store."

As to why they should produce the brochure in English, that should have been an easy marketing decision. Expats form a very significant minority on the island and there are also many people from other countries who can understand English but not Greek.

All of the supermarket flyers are also in English, as are the road signs for heaven's sake, so producing the catalogue in two languages is hardly a major issue.

For the record I was born in Cyprus and I live in a Cypriot area. I am just realistic.

Hi, we were avid Ikea buyers in the UK. We visited relatives in Vancouver last year, and the Ikea prices in Canadian $ roughly converted to the same price as Sterling. We then assumed that the prices were the same as in the UK.

Maybe, if we get friends and relatives to bring over UK brochures then that would give us an idea of what products are available and the approximate price. If that is not possible, then it's tough luck.

Hi Spud... we have a UK Ikea catalogue in GBP and the prices are about equivalent (not taking into accoun the stronger currency in Cyprus that is).

Regards

The prices are around the same, give or take a few pound but that's due to exchange rates.

It's a great place, now I can go and buy things without being ripped off!

Just a word of caution if you have yet to go. As at the end of September 2007 they are pretty much "cleaned out" of many, many items. The show rooms are lovely of course - but lots of things are out of stock and they have no idea when individual items will be back in stock.

There are a lot of unhappy shoppers coming out of Ikea!