Ikea opens ₹100crore distribution centre in Pune

MUMBAI:

Swedish home furnishing major Ikea has opened a ₹100-crore distribution centre in Pune, and is also scouting for land in Maharashtra to build more facilities at an investment of ₹750 crore, a senior company executive has said. “We have opened a 2.3 lakh sq ft distribution centre in Pune, on leased land and have pumped in ₹100 crore into this. We will expand this to 3.7 lakh sq ft by next year,” Bimal Patel, the manager, distribution operations at Ikea India, said. “We are also scouting for more land in Maharashtra to build our own warehousing facilities over the next two to three years, and have earmarked an outlay of ₹750 crore for this,” he said.

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