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Yesterday was the big opening of the new Ikea store in Malaga and more than 18,000 people made their way to the new store. The set up traffic plans worked well to keep the traffic moving on the local motorway and the traffic was better than everybody thought. Some people took advantage of an extra bus services laid on. The company is more than happy with their first day. They sold 16 complete kitchens and about 5,000 people signed up for the “Ikea Family” card. The first person who walked into the new IKEA store was Lufti Zeton Gómez from Málaga. He waited outside the Ikea stote for 12 and a half hours. But for this he was given a 300 € cheque by the shop managers. This Ikea store is the eleventh on the peninsula. Experts estimate that the new Ikea store will absorb nearly 30% of the furniture market in Málaga. It is expected to attract more than 1.5 million visitors in its first year, with a turnover of around 101 million € forecast for its third year of opening. Nationally the company will turn over more than 1 billion € this year. The whole store near Plaza Mayor cost the company 65 million €, with a sales area covering 20,000 square metres on two floors, and customer car parking for 2,400 vehicles.

A few months ago I started a website called costamedi.com. It was just to show some information about the mediterranean coast in the province of Malaga but with a very bad design. Now that I am more and more professional in programming and designing I woulkd like to present the new design of this project. With this design I hope to get more visitors to the site. The website is in German, Englisch and Spanish, just in case you prefer another language. Read more »

As I read in the Sur in English newspaper 25,000 candidates send their curriculum for jobs in the new Ikea shop in Malaga which is scheduled to open on October 30th. And in the end the new Ikea shop will bring more than 500 new jobs for the Malaga area. Approximately 15,000 visitors are expected on inauguration day and up to 18,000 on the first saturday after it. In total the new store expects to attract more than two million shoppers in the next year. As far as the opening of a second Ikea store in the province of Malaga is concerned Marbella would be the perfect location for it, or Estepona. But at first we have to wait for the first store to open. Maybe the next store will open its doors in Granada or Jerez.

This week the Junta de Andalucía has launched a new promotional campaign to attract tourists from both the rest of Spain and other European countries during autumn and winter to improve figures for the low season. The campaign in Spain consists of four-day promotions staged in shopping centres in Valencia, Madrid, Zaragoza, Barcelona and Lejona (Vizcaya) where shoppers will be invited on a virtual tour of the attractions of Andalucía. Read more »