{"id":14265,"date":"2017-03-14T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=14265"},"modified":"2022-05-11T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T07:07:31","slug":"international-furniture-brand-ikea-to-open-first-branch-in-the-philippines-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/international-furniture-brand-ikea-to-open-first-branch-in-the-philippines-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"International furniture brand IKEA to open first branch in the Philippines soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular furniture brand IKEA is set to open its first branch in the Philippines soon!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>In a report published by Manila Bulletin, Swedish Ambassador Harald Fries was said to have confirmed that IKEA has \u201cdecided to come in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As quoted from the <a href=\"http:\/\/business.mb.com.ph\/2017\/03\/12\/swedish-ambassador-confirms-ikea-to-open-first-ph-store-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>, \u201cIf IKEA goes in the Philippines, like it has gone in other countries, there would be great opportunities for Filipinos to find work and there would be investment in putting up stores.\u201d At a media roundtable event for the 70th year of Sweden-Philippine Diplomatic Relations, Fries said that once the \u201cNetherlands-based multinational group decides to start operating,\u201d more investments and recruitment shall soon follow.<\/p>\n<p>IKEA has branches in Asian countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, China, Thailand, Macau, Indonesia, and South Korea. It has also been tagged previously by Reuters as \u201cworld\u2019s largest furniture retailer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/business.mb.com.ph\/2017\/03\/12\/swedish-ambassador-confirms-ikea-to-open-first-ph-store-soon\/\">Manila Bulletin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular furniture brand IKEA is set to open its first branch in the Philippines soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2786],"class_list":["post-14265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-ikea"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/ikea-japan-1024x525-e1489471781607.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64890,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265\/revisions\/64890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}