Housemarket S.A.

In 1999, FOURLIS Group has signed with the multinational swedish home furnishings and equipment company IKEA, the exlusive master franchise agreement.

Housemarket S.A. scope of business is to bring the IKEA concept to Greece by providing a range of home furnishings products that will be affordable to the many people and not just the few.

The first IKEA store in Greece opened in October 24, 2001 in Thessaloniki. The store area reached 20.000 sq.m and during the first year of operation 1.5 million visitors visited the new IKEA store.

In Athens, the first store of IKEA opened in April 22, 2004 in the commercial park of Athens International Airport while the second store opened in close proximity to the city center in March 2008.

In October 2009 and December 2010 respectively, the IKEA stores in Larissa and Ioannina inagurated their operations.

FOURLIS Group in collaboration the the master franchisor Interikea Systems B.V. decided to open the so-called Pick-Up Points by making possible for consumers living far from the cities where stores are operating to visit small size showrooms with a variety of the most representative products, a number of inspirational solutions and competent staff which is ready to assist with any questions that a visitor can have and place an order. In the IKEA Pick Up Point the visitor can also find a small variety of home accessories available for immediate purchase. With the exception of a few articles, the entire IKEA product range available on the e-commerce website can be purchased through the IKEA Pick Up Point.

The existing IKEA Pick-Up Points are located in Rhodes, Patras, Chania, Heraklion, Komotini and Kalamata. Any order placed in these pick-up points within five days it is ready to picked up with no additional transportation fee.