According to Ding Hui, managing director for Inter Ikea Centre Group, the group has decided three shopping center projects in China with total investments of CNY10 billion, and it will further increase its investment in the marketplace by building its fourth project in Shanghai with CNY5 billion.

Wayne's Coffee, one of the largest cafe chain brands in North Europe, has opened its first Chinese shop at Beijing's Oriental Plaza.

According to reports in local media, following the launch of its Chinese headquarters in the Yangpu district of Shanghai in May 2009, the North European home supplies provider JYSK has decided to open its first Chinese store in the same city on April 8, 2010.