Swedish furniture giant IKEA announced Wednesday that it would expand its online sales service to include home deliveries in all countries where it has stores.
Most of the company`s national Internet sites currently only allow shoppers to check availability of items online, without offering deliveries, with the exception of some long-standing markets including Sweden, France and Canada.
"We are increasing speed in transforming IKEA into a true multichannel retailer and are rolling out e-commerce in all markets in the next few years," the IKEA Group`s chief executive Peter Agnefjall said in a statement.
It also announced that the IKEA Group would transfer several companies -- including IKEA Supply (logistics) and IKEA Industry (wooden furniture) -- to its holding company Inter IKEA Systems.
According to IKEA, the change will not involve redundancies and will allow it to focus more on in-store and online sales, while Inter IKEA Systems takes care of the rest of the business.
The group did not reveal further details of the transaction between its Dutch-based holding companies.
The exact business structure of the Swedish furniture empire -- notably the distribution of profits within the family of the founder Ingvar Kamprad, 89 -- have never been fully divulged.
There were 361 IKEA outlets worldwide at the end of 2014 and the group reported sales of 29.3 billion euros ($33 billion) for 2013 to 2014 and a net profit of 3.3 billion euros.