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IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad (right) shakes hands with Hans Ax, IKEA's first store manager, in 1965.. In 1943, then-17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA as a mail-order sales business, and began to resell furniture five years later. [23]
The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 1962; [2] the Koffler family still retains ownership of the Super-Pharm pharmacy, which has locations in Israel, Poland, and formerly in China (as Ensure from 2005 to 2011). [5] Super-Pharm's logo is similar to that of Shoppers Drug Mart, which was created by the artist Sylvain Liu.
IKEA opened first store in India with 37,000 m 2 (400,000 sq ft) in Hyderabad on 9 August 2018. [106] IKEA opened its second store in Navi Mumbai on 18 December 2020, [107] and its third outlet and first smaller format "city-store" in Worli, Mumbai on 9 December 2021. [108] IKEA plans to have 30 stores by 2028.
As of June 2019, there are 423 IKEA stores operating in 52 countries. In fiscal year 2018, €38.8 billion (US$44.6 billion) worth of IKEA goods were sold. The IKEA website contains about 12,000 products and is the closest representation of the entire IKEA range.
CJOH-DT (channel 13) is a television station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, serving the National Capital Region as part of the CTV Television Network.It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Pembroke-licensed CTV 2 outlet CHRO-TV (channel 5).
Westgate Shopping Centre is a shopping mall in the Carlington neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located southwest of downtown, bordering Carling Avenue, Merivale Road, and Highway 417, owned by RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust. The mall opened May 12, 1955, and is considered Ottawa's first shopping centre. [2]
At the time, it was the largest shopping centre in Ottawa, with over 40 stores. One of the selling points of the mall was its extensive 24 acres (97,000 m 2 ) of parking space. The mall was enclosed in 1971, and a third storey was added to Sears at the end of the decade.
St. Laurent Centre is the third largest mall in terms of total space in the National Capital Region behind Rideau Centre and Bayshore Shopping Centre with 880,736 sq ft of leasable area, although a large portion of the mall's gross leasable area is utilized by non-retail tenants. [9] It is currently the 27th largest mall in Canada.