Ikea Ireland weekly spend reaches €2m

Our love of all things Ikea blossomed even more last year as customers on 2.4m shopping trips to the Swedish retailer’s Ballymun store led to a spend of over €2m every week.

New figures lodged by Ikea Ireland Ltd show that pre-tax profits at the company’s only Irish store last year jumped by 22% going from €5.8m to €7.1m. The accounts show that the increased splurge on the likes of Ikea’s Lack tables and Expedit shelving units helped increase revenues by 8%, from €103.9m to €112.7m.

In a sure sign of the turnaround in the economy, the numbers going through the doors of Ikea in Ballymun last year jumped by 100,000 from 2.3m to 2.4m.