Ikea are currently in discussions over returning money to all of the nine countries that gave the furniture retailer government support through furlough schemes as it has suffered less than expected from the pandemic.
Mr Oncu added that Ikea had thought business could fall between seventy and eighty percent at the start of the crisis. However, now all but 23 of its stores had reopened, it is experiencing a large amount of “pent-up demand” for home improvements.
“Now we know more than what we did in February and March, it’s just the right thing to go back and say, ‘hey guys thanks very much, you helped us through this difficult period and so now can we see about paying this back or forward.” – Tolga Oncu, Retail Operations Manager, Ingka Group,
