INGKA Centres Holding B.V. (formerly known as IKEA Centres and IKANO Retail Centres) is a Dutch commercial real estate developer and operator owned by INGKA Holding.
INGKA Centres is one of the biggest shopping centre companies, owning, managing and operating 37 'meeting places' across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
History The company was founded in 1972, when a shopping centre named Birsta City was built next to an IKEA store in Sundsvall, Sweden which opened a few years prior in 1969.
In 2002 and 2014 respectively, the IKEA Group began opening shopping centres in Russia and China under the MEGA and Livat brands respectively.
In 2015, Ikano sold its 51% stake of the company to the IKEA Group, IKANO Retail Centres, alongside the Livat and MEGA centres, were unified under the IKEA Centres group.
In 2018, the company was rebranded from IKEA Centres to INGKA Centres, as part of its parent company's rebranding to its legal name of INGKA Group.
Originally, the company built and developed its own shopping centres, this changed in 2020 when they acquired a building in San Francisco and the Kings Mall in Hammersmith, the latter was rebranded under the Livat brand, making this the first centre outside of China to adopt the name. Both acquired properties became home to a concept IKEA store called IKEA City.
INGKA Centres announced in December 2021 that it would open two malls, anchored by IKEA stores, in Gurugram and Noida in India at a cost of around . Both malls are expected to open by 2025.
Following the invasion of Ukraine, INGKA Centres halted retail operations in Russia and in September 2023 sold all of its MEGA Centres to Gazprombank Group.
In 2026, INGKA Centres made a deal with GoHigh Capital to sell some of its interest in its Livat centres in China, INGKA Centres would still co-own and manage the centres.
In March 2026, INGKA Centres announced that they would unify their shopping centres in Sweden under the Livli brand, these shopping centres include Birsta City, Erikslund Shopping Center and i-HUSET.
In June 2026, INGKA Centres were actively looking for shopping centres to acquire in the United Kingdom, this follows a failed bid for the Merry Hill Shopping Centre, which was ultimately sold to Redical.
List of locations
INGKA Centres owns, manages and operates 38 shopping centres (or self-described 'meeting places'), all of them have IKEA as an anchor tenant.
Asia CentreLocationShopsOpened/AcquiredOwnerLivat BeijingDaxing, Beijing, China4552015INGKA Centres and GoHigh CapitalLivat ChangshaChangsha, Hunan, China3802021INGKA CentresLivat Fuzhou Fuzhou, Fujian, China622021INGKA CentresLivat Hefei Hefei, Anhui, China602023INGKA CentresLivat Kunming Kunming, Yunnan, China622022INGKA CentresLivat NanningNanning, Guangxi, China802021INGKA CentresLivat ShanghaiChangning, Shanghai, China3002024INGKA CentresLivat WuhanWuhan, Hubei, China3562015INGKA Centres and GoHigh CapitalLivat WuxiWuxi, Jiangsu, China3182014INGKA Centres and GoHigh CapitalLivat Xi'anXi'an, Shaanxi, China4502024INGKA CentresLykli GurugramGurugram, India2532025INGKA Centres
Europe CentreLocationShopsOpened/AcquiredOwnerDesigner Outlet CroatiaZagreb, Croatia742018INGKA Centres, ROS Retail Outlet Shopping and Mutschler Outlet HoldingAvion Shopping Park OstravaOstrava, Czech Republic1782001INGKA CentresMatkus Shopping CenterKuopio, Finland722012INGKA CentresAmetzondo ShoppingBiarritz, France1102016INGKA CentresItalie 2Paris, France1141990 (acquired 2023)INGKA CentresPasing ArcadenMunich, Germany1402011 (acquired 2024)INGKA CentresELNÒS ShoppingRoncadelle, Italy1452016INGKA CentresTiare ShoppingVillesse, Italy1462013INGKA CentresAleja BielanyBielany Wrocławskie, Poland2001998INGKA CentresPort ŁódźŁódź, Poland1982010INGKA CentresSKENDE ShoppingLublin, Poland 672017INGKA CentresWola Park Wola, Poland2002002INGKA CentresMAR Shopping AlgarveAlgarve, Portugal1802017INGKA CentresMAR Shopping MatosinhosMatosinhos, Portugal1102008INGKA CentresAvion Shopping Park RužinovRužinov, Slovakia1802002INGKA CentresLUZ ShoppingCádiz, Spain672010INGKA CentresRÍO ShoppingValladolid. Spain1352012INGKA CentresÄlmhults HandelsplatsÄlmhult, Sweden192013INGKA CentresLivli SundsvallSundsvall, Sweden1001967INGKA CentresLivli VästeråsVästerås, Sweden832001INGKA CentresLivli LinköpingLinköping, Sweden701994INGKA CentresLivli Kungens KurvaStockholm, Sweden282014INGKA CentresShopping Park KålleredKållered, Sweden201986INGKA CentresChurchill SquareBrighton, England, United Kingdom821998 (acquired 2023)INGKA CentresLivat HammersmithHammersmith, England, United Kingdom331979 (acquired 2020)INGKA Centres
The Americas CentreLocationShopsOpened/AcquiredOwnerAuraToronto, Ontario, Canada12014 (acquired 2021)INGKA Centres945 MarketSan Francisco, California, United States122024INGKA Centres
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