Swedish flatpack furniture chain IKEA have announced that it will be opening three new stores in Sheffield, Exeter and Greenwich. The move would see the company employ approximately 11,700 people in the UK across 22 large outlets and four smaller stores. Overall UK sales have risen year-on-year by 8.9% to £1.7bn for the year to end of August 2016, following experiments with small high street stores and shopping centre locations.