Clara covers consumer and retail trends. Karen Pflug is the chief sustainability officer at Ingka Group, Ikea’s largest retail franchisee with 379 stores worldwide. As part of her appointment in ...

At Fast Company’s Innovation Festival, Ingka CEO Jesper Brodin talked about Ikea’s ‘plant balls’ and other moves the company has made to lower its carbon footprint. Jesper Brodin likes ...

The Inter Ikea Group has tapped Lena Julle as its new chief sustainability officer, a role she assumed May 1. The group is the parent company behind Ikea’s numerous franchises and subsidiaries ...

Which is one of the other real revolutions in Ikea. We are standardizing and setting up another way of constructing furniture, which also by the way has an immense impact from a sustainability ...

From establishing biodiversity parks in India to grilling the Polish government about pulling out of a global sustainability convention, Ikea has been keen to boast of its positive impact on the ...

“It’s no longer a vision or a hope; it’s a machine that works in Ikea,” he said. “There are lots of questions in the world today: is sustainability possible? Can we afford it? For us it ...

The chief sustainability officer of IKEA’s main store operator says you don’t have to be a sustainability expert to do the job, but being resilient and able to lead with optimism are useful ...

Sustainability is a central facet of that mandate. And for Macdonald, that has yielded some very personal rewards. “When I share with my two eco-minded teenage daughters the things IKEA is ...

Isabelle Brigliadori’s heart soars when she pulls into the IKEA Canada Calgary store’s parking lot, with its super-efficient watering system, and when she passes by customers with purchases of ...

but green groups question sustainability of the scheme IKEA disputes claim by Greenpeace that old-growth trees from Romania found in its products Under Forest Positive Agenda, IKEA commits to ...