{"id":7016,"date":"2016-07-27T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T09:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=7016"},"modified":"2016-07-27T17:53:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T09:53:52","slug":"international-furniture-store-ikea-to-open-soon-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/international-furniture-store-ikea-to-open-soon-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"International furniture store IKEA to open soon in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In a report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inquirerdotnet\/photos\/a.10150441841044453.385336.142802334452\/10154690664704453\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> by news website Inquirer.net on Wednesday (July 27), popular international furniture brand IKEA is set to open a branch here in the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7017\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/ikea-japan-1024x525.jpg\" alt=\"ikea-japan\" width=\"850\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>IKEA store in Japan. (Photo grabbed from www.acclaro.com)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Although no details have been posted yet as of press time, the news gained mostly positive reactions, making it a trending topic in social networking site Twitter at the 11<sup>th<\/sup> spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">IKEA is a known global brand that sells ready-to-assemble furniture, appliances, and accessories that started in Sweden in 1943. According to a report by <em>Reuters<\/em> in 2008, it was named as the \u201cworld\u2019s largest furniture retailer.\u201d With over 300 stores in 48 countries worldwide, IKEA is undoubtedly one of the brands that became successful in penetrating the global market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">IKEA has branches in Asian countries such as in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, China, Thailand, Macau, Indonesia, and South Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Now that it has been reported, what are your thoughts about IKEA having a franchise here in PH? Comment below!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inquirerdotnet\/photos\/a.10150441841044453.385336.142802334452\/10154690664704453\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Inquirer&#8217;s Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0 <a title=\"ABS-CBN\" href=\"http:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/life\/07\/27\/16\/ikea-to-open-in-ph-netizens-react\" target=\"_blank\">ABS-CBN News<\/a> <\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a report posted by news website Inquirer.net on Wednesday (July 27), popular international furniture brand IKEA is set to open a branch here in the Philippines. \u00a0 IKEA store in Japan. (Photo grabbed from www.acclaro.com) \u00a0 Although no details have been posted yet as of press time, the news gained mostly positive reactions, making it a trending topic in social networking site Twitter at the 11th spot. IKEA is a known global brand that sells ready-to-assemble furniture, appliances, and accessories that started in Sweden in 1943. According to a report by Reuters in 2008, it was named as the \u201cworld\u2019s largest furniture retailer.\u201d With over 300 stores in 48 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/ikea-japan-e1469612886944.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016","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=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7020,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions\/7020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}