Ikea to hire 5,000 workers for Navi Mumbai store; create 10-k jobs in 3 yrs

Ikea opened its first store in the country in Hyderabad in August, where it employs 1,000 people

Swedish furniture giant Ikea is planning to hire 10,000, both direct and indirect, in Maharashtra over the next two to three years, a senior company executive has said.
 

The company opened its first store in Hyderabad in August this year and the Navi Mumbai will be the second store in the country.
 

"Next year, we are opening the Navi Mumbai store, for which we are planning to recruit 5,000 directly and an equal number will be hired indirectly over the two to three years," Ikea India's people and culture manager Anna-Carin Mansson told PTI here.
 

This will include directly hiring