the logo of ikea is seen above its new store in bengaluru india june 21 2022 reuterssamuel rajkumar stockholm june 30 reuters  warehouses for ikea stores in europe are as full as they were before the pandemic after an easing of transport bottlenecks in the region the retail manager of ingka group which owns most ikea stores worldwide said on thursday the worlds biggest furniture brand has been narrowing its range leasing more ships buying containers and rerouting goods between warehouses to mitigate global supply chain disruptions during the pandemic and meet record remand read more tolga oncu retail manager at ingka group told reuters that in europe the companys slimmed down range of goods was now fully stocked if you look at europe our stores are back at the same inventory levels as we were 2019 this has happened just recently he said in an interview at the opening of ikeas first innercity store in stockholm in sweden its home market and now is the time to again start widening the range he said swedish fashion retailer hm hmbst on wednesday said that while it was still being hit by supply chain disruptions and delays they were gradually easing read more a large part of ikeas range is sourced relatively close to the companys sales markets around 70 of products sold in europe where ikea has the bulk of its turnover are produced on the continent we have started to see some transport corridors are improving the flow of goods is improved lead times from suppliers to our stores are shortening oncu speaking about europe said he said elsewhere problems remained what we see in europe is that the corridors that were clogged are becoming unclogged the suppliers of our transports are telling us we have more capacity now to transport your goods