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Forbes India has released its annual 30 under 30 list that comprises India's young changemakers and brightest stars under the age of 30. The 30 member list released on February 4, 2020, includes five women namely Actor Sai Pallavi, Ikea designer Akanksha Deo Sharma, entrepreneurs Palak Shah, Priya Prakash and Sai Gole. Let’s find out more about these young women changemakers of India in this episode of Not For Women Only with Sunita Iyer.

IKEA group had acquired 14 acres in Bengaluru in June, 2017. It has already bought land at Mumbai and the work for the store has also started.  It will be 4.5 lakh sq ft and the land was acquired from the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd in 2017.
 

Kishore, a customer posted the photo of chocolate cake with the fly, bringing IKEA back in news for all the wrong reasons. IKEA was fined Rs 5,000 earlier by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation for cleanliness issues. This inspection was conducted after a customer Tweeted a photo of a caterpillar inside the vegetable biriyani earlier.
 

Food safety officials from Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation conducted a raid at IKEA store, Hyderabad.  After inspection, the GHMC issued a notice and imposed a fine of Rs 11,500 on IKEA as it found that the rule of segregating waste was also not followed at the store.

 

India's first IKEA store was welcomed by people, with arms and wallets wide open. The store received an overwhelming response on its first day as the total footfall stood at 40,000 and the store earned a whopping Rs 2.4 Cr.

Hyderabad's citizens were so elated with Ikea opening in their city that virtually everyone ended up going to HITEC City

IKEA plans to open 25 stores in India by 2025. It says it currently employs 950 people and plans to hire another 15,000 as it expands operations.

Here are the facts which you must know about this new opening
 

IKEA the Swedish furnishing giant is opening its first store in Hyderabad, today. It is going to be a huge 4 lakh sq ft store spread over an area of a 13-acre complex.