Furniture retailer IKEA has officially unveiled details of its long-awaited store in Brighton, set to open on Thursday, 14 August 2025. 

Located at Churchill Square Shopping Centre in the newly renovated former Debenhams unit, IKEA Brighton will become IKEA’s third city-centre location in the UK, following the recent opening of IKEA Oxford Street in London.

Spanning 6,695 square metres of retail space across two storeys, the new store combines IKEA’s hallmark shopping and dining experience in an accessible city centre location, offering a range of affordable and sustainable home furnishing solutions.

The unique store design celebrates the local community. On the first floor, customers can explore a series of inspiring roomsets co-created with Brightonians to reflect life at home in the city; including a nod to Brighton’s famous beach huts. Customers can also enjoy sea views while tucking into signature IKEA dishes in the 100-seater Swedish Deli and leave with Swedish delicacies purchased from the Swedish Food Market to enjoy at home.

Locals who co-created IKEA Brighton’s inspiring roomsets include ceramicists, Adam Johnson (@Adam Ceramic) and Dan Mackey. The couple are passionate about home renovation, bright colours and IKEA hacks. Adam Johnson said: “We’ve always loved IKEA because it’s like an interiors disco – and what’s life without a little sparkle?”

On the ground floor, customers can browse a range of 2,600 products for immediate takeaway – items to help decorate, furnish, and enhance the comfort and functionality of life at home.

The full 12,000-strong product range is available for home delivery or collection. Customers can also shop second-hand finds in the dedicated Re-shop and Re-use area and create their dream kitchen or optimise bedroom storage with expert planning advice. Cold snacks and drinks are available at the Swedish Bite.

Karina Gilpin, Market Manager at IKEA Brighton, said: “IKEA Brighton is designed with the city at its heart, and we are so excited to welcome the first customers into our new home in two days’ time.

“Our city centre location in Churchill Square means customers can conveniently drop in while out and about, to seek inspiration for their homes, browse our range, access our expert planning advice, or enjoy our delicious meatballs or plantballs. We can’t wait to get started.”

To celebrate the store opening, the first 100 IKEA Family Members to visit IKEA Brighton will receive a FRAKTA bag with an enveloped gift card inside. Prizes range from £1 to £1,000, offering customers the chance to walk away with an extra special surprise.

Furthermore, Ingka Group, the biggest IKEA retailer, has officially launched its online store on JD.com, aiming to expand its reach in China.

The collaboration with JD.com marks a significant step for IKEA in expanding its presence in China and further developing its infrastructure in one of its most important markets.

The IKEA store on the platform will feature over 6,500 products across all product categories, with convenient delivery and membership services from day one. During the opening period, special offers will be made to make the IKEA offer even more affordable to customers on JD.com.

“Since 2018, IKEA China has been strengthening the omnichannel development and improving its offer in China. Launching on JD.com is an important day on that journey as it is enabling us to enhance our accessibility to more Chinese families who value quality and service,” says Pontus Erntell, CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA China.

As IKEA branches out with new sales channels, it continues we continue to further develop its physical and digital presence in China by investing more than YAN 6.3 billion (EUR 800 million) by 2027. This includes new stores that have opened during the ongoing fiscal year in Xi’an, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, in addition to the first pick up point in the country that welcomed customers in Shenzhen.

In other news, Ingka Investments, the investment arm of Ingka Group, the largest IKEA retailer, has announced a growth capital injection in Re-mall (Shanghai Re-mall Environmental Protection New Material Co., Ltd.), the China-based recycler of post-consumer packaging waste, which uses a proprietary technique and process to produce transparent recycled polypropylene (“rPP”) for use in new products.

The plastic recycling industry faces numerous challenges, which Re-mall is working to overcome. These include contamination from food residues and labels, quality degradation of the material across recycling cycles, high processing costs, and volatile market demand for recycled plastics, which hinder effective uptake.

Within China, Re-mall is recognised for producing premium-grade post-consumer recycled polypropylene driven by technology and innovation, and is actively exploring, and building, high-quality closed-loop solutions with their value chain partners. They are also one of the only global suppliers producing highly transparent pellets from post-consumer food packaging waste at scale. The finished materials are used in applications such as storage boxes and containers, tableware, toys, cosmetics packaging, and woven textile products. Re-mall’s materials are used in the products of many blue-chip companies.

The investment is part of Ingka’s commitment to support the transition towards a circular economy by investing in companies that are developing technology or growing capacity to prevent waste or supply recycled materials. It also marks the first Chinese investment for Ingka Investments in its Circular Investment portfolio. China is one of the largest plastic markets in the world and occupies a pivotal role in finding circular solutions to tackle waste.

Lukas Visser, Head of Circular Investments at Ingka Group, said: “Re-mall’s strong supplier network and partnerships with leading Chinese food delivery service providers are already allowing them to create impact at scale for the local recycling market. By investing in Re-mall, we want to amplify this impact to help address a global plastic waste problem and contribute to the circular economy transition.”

Pontus Erntell, President & Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA China, added: “This investment by Ingka Investments demonstrates our long-term commitment in China. To meet our customers’ needs for generations to come, we have both the responsibility and the opportunity to take a lead in accelerating the circular economy beyond IKEA, and the scale and innovation capabilities here in the Chinese market create significant opportunities for this transformation.”

Re-mall is headquartered in Shanghai, China, and operates a production facility strategically located in Jiangxi province, allowing for access to plastic waste streams from large cities, like Guangzhou and Shanghai, both in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta economic zones. The investment will support Re-mall in increasing its recycling capacity and developing new products.

“We are happy to welcome Ingka Investments as a strategic partner in our mission to accelerate the circular economy in plastics. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in our journey to scale sustainable solutions globally. Together, we aim to transform plastic waste into valuable resources, contributing to a cleaner planet and a more responsible future,” said ZHU Kuan, CEO of Re-mall.

Ingka Group established its circular investment portfolio in 2017. It focuses on materials with a high carbon footprint, for which recycling infrastructure is lacking and which are relevant for our retail operations. Its aim is to grow profitable businesses that avoid millions of tonnes of CO2e and increase the availability of recycled material on the market.