The IKEA catalogue, first published in 1952, is distributed every September.

The 33,000sqm IKEA store -- more than three times the size of Abu Dhabi Marina Mall store and bigger than the 25,400sqm store in Dubai Festival City -- is a complete family destination and will form part of Yas Island's retail centre Yas Mall.

"At Ikea we want to continue to offer products for a better life at home for the many people going forward.

You can use Ikea 's own hardware switches that come with the system, the Ikea Home smartphone app, which, crucially, is compatible with all three of the major players in the world of AI voice assistants - yes, you can control the Ikea smarthome system with Alexa, Siri, and the Google Assistant.

"We have decided to invest significantly in Home Smart across IKEA to fast-forward the development.

The Danville, Virginia, furniture factory is the only production plant that Ikea has in the states.

IKEA will also offer door-to-door delivery for only AED100 (RO10.46 approx) and assembly service for only AED250 (RO26.17 approx).

Throughout the programmem, participating entrepreneurs will have access to a wealth of experience offered by the IKEA Forward programme to help them develop their skills and scale their business to reach new levels of growth.

Though normal Ikea branches are usually huge out-of-town warehouses packed to the brim with showrooms, endless aisles of cardboard boxes and an impossibly busy cafe, the new branch will be totally different.

The 2019 program, which is run in conjunction with Rainmaking, a global entrepreneurial cooperative, is a three-month, semi-remote program designed to accommodate the start-up businesses, which will also manage their day-to-day enterprises while co-creating with Ikea . During the process, Ikea will explore whether or not to go forward with the collaborations.

The investment would create over 8,000 direct and indirect job opportunities in the state, said Ikea in a statement.