Swedish furniture giant Ikea first announced it would be coming to Auckland in 2019. Today – some four years later – construction has finally begun, with the first Ikea New Zealand store scheduled to open at Sylvia Park in late 2025.
The store will be around 34,000 square metres – more than three rugby fields – spread over three storeys, with a ground-floor car park and two-level store. It will include a Swedish restaurant and bistro serving Ikea’s famous meatballs and hotdogs, which now also come in plant-based form.
According to past news reports from Stuff, the opening will bring with it 400 jobs – and Ikea will be launching an online store at the same time, so those living outside Auckland can access affordable, design-led furniture and homewares.
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SUBSCRIBE NOWWhen it opens, New Zealand’s Ikea will be one of over 460 stores in 62 markets. There are 10 stores in Australia, including some small-format versions – dwarfed by the usual 30,000-plus-square-metre sprawls – that are marketed as places to plan and order some of the Swedish furniture giant’s more complex, customisable products that might be “too daunting to tackle alone”.
With our closest neighbours being home to so many Ikea stores, it felt like New Zealand was really missing out until now. Tolga Öncü, Ikea’s head of retail at holding company Ingka Group, agrees. “New Zealand felt like a missing piece for Ikea and I am so pleased that, thanks to the support of the many involved, we are now able to start changing that,” he said in a statement. “We are humbled by the interest shown in Ikea and our home furnishing solutions and will do our absolute best to live up to such expectations.”
Ikea New Zealand is expected to open in late 2025.
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