Second IKEA in Barents Region
Norwegian Prime Minister took part when the furniture giant announced the location of their northernmost mall.
It is election campaign in Norway. It was therefore a very proud mayor of Tromsø that together with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and IKEA representatives announced the up-coming construction of a mall.
Tromsø, the largest city in northern Norway, has for years had a dream to attract IKEA to build a mall in their city.
The first IKEA mall in the Barents Region opened some few years ago in Haparanda in Sweden’s northeastern corner. The Haparanda mall soon became a huge success. Customers are driving in from northern Finland, northern Norway – and even all the way from Russia’s Kola Peninsula and Karelia.
IKEA has more than 300 furniture malls around the globe today. The new mall in Tromsø will be the world’s northernmost. It is not clear when the new mall will open.
