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What if saving water felt like an upgrade instead of a compromise? 🚰 Over the past three years, we have participated in a pioneering pilot with the 50L Home Coalition in Los Angeles, successfully helping households reduce indoor water use. Through well-designed products, efficient fixtures, and solutions adapted to everyday routines, participating homes reached an average of 79 litres per person per day, almost half the typical Los Angeles city average. But this pilot also reinforces something bigger for us at IKEA. Water matters — for people, for nature, and for our business. Across our entire value chain, from raw materials to how our products are used at home, we work to improve water security, protect ecosystems, and support communities. This includes: 💧 Reducing freshwater use across raw materials, production and stores 💧 Developing affordable, water efficient products that make it easy to save water at home 💧 Improving water quality by ensuring responsible wastewater treatment in our supply chain 💧 Partnering with others, such as the 50L Home Coalition, to scale solutions in water-stressed regions 💧 Taking action in priority river basins, aiming to secure access to clean water for communities and restore local ecosystems What we see time and again is that efficiency lasts when it is paired with delight. When solutions are intuitive, enjoyable, and fit everyday life, saving water becomes a second nature. What’s next? While the Los Angeles pilot has ended, we are building on these learnings in future pilots and projects. Our ambition is clear: 👉 Make 50 litre living a realistic standard, especially in homes in water stressed areas. 👉 Continue developing products — like efficient showers, taps, and innovations such as the ÅBÄCKEN nozzle — that help people reduce their water use without compromising experience. 👉 Keep strengthening our efforts to improve water quality and water access together with communities and partners around the world. Read more in the first comment ⬇️

Creating opportunities through design Step inside Home of the Home Lab, a collaboration between us and the Älmhult municipality. A creative incubator where early-stage entrepreneurs explore, test, and grow ideas that can shape the future of life at home. Based in the heart of Älmhult, this space brings together design, innovation, and the entrepreneurial spirit of Småland. For six months, eleven participants will connect with supporting companies through mentoring, hands-on learning, and real opportunities to turn nine business ideas into reality. From sketches and prototypes to everyday moments of collaboration, this project is all about people, energy, and ideas, a place where new solutions for better everyday living can take form. Applications for new participants open on 30 March. Are you the next entrepreneur, or do you know someone who is? Read more about what Home of the Home Lab does and stands for in the first comment below.

There's no feeling like home. We’re launching a new global brand campaign celebrating a simple universal truth: home is more than a place. It's a feeling like no other. "Coming Home" a cinematic film directed by Justyna Obasi, produced by ANORAK Film, with music from Lucy Dacus - captures the anticipation of the journey home and the joy of finally walking through the door. Because everyone should have a home they love. #IKEAComingHome

Днес празнуваме силата, вдъхновението и смелостта на жените. Заедно с невероятните жени от IKEA създадохме това видео, за да отдадем признание на техния принос, енергия и ежедневните малки победи, които правят разликата. Честит празник на всички жени – днес и всеки ден. 🌷 https://lnkd.in/dZXtU5pi

Contamos com a vossa presença! 😀 #somuchmorethanajob

Mangler jeres klubhus noget blødt at sidde i? I IKEA tror vi på det gode naboskab, som handler om at hjælpe dem i vores baghave. Dem der hver dag får fællesskabet til at fungere. Det starter i klubhuset, rundt om bordtennisbordet. I fællesrummet. I det lille tekøkken, hvor kaffen altid er lidt for stærk. På bænkene der har set bedre dage. Foreninger og lokale fællesskaber binder os sammen. Derfor åbner vi op for ansøgninger til Naboskab 2026, hvor 6 lokale foreninger eller NGO’er får en makeover til en værdi af 100.000 kr. Måske er det jeres klubhus? Måske jeres venteværelse? Måske jeres kultursted, værested eller det lokale samlingspunkt for frivillige? Send en ansøgning senest 15. april 2026. Så kan det være, at netop jeres forening får en IKEA makeover, der løfter fællesskabet til helt nye højder. Del gerne med en forening, der fortjener bedre rammer. Find yderligere informationer via link i kommentarspor.

Driving innovation: exploring self‑driving deliveries What if waiting less didn’t mean working faster, but working smarter? We’re exploring how new technology can help improve everyday life for customers and co‑workers. In China, we tested self‑driving electric vehicles to move customer orders between units and support in‑store replenishment. Since the start of the pilot, the vehicles have successfully travelled nearly 75,600 km, cutting self‑pick‑up waiting times from six hours to two and reducing transportation costs by more than 50%. Based on these results, Ingka Group has permanently adopted the solution in IKEA Hefei. The learnings are now helping us explore where this technology could add value next, and autonomous customer deliveries are also being trialled in China. Each vehicle operates autonomously within approved areas and is monitored remotely by a human operator to ensure safe navigation. We’re still early on this journey, but innovations like this help us build more efficient, flexible and affordable retail operations, always guided by our vision to create a better everyday life for the many people.

Happy Fat... February (that’s what happens when you have a Semla on top of unlimited pineapple tarts and CNY goodies) 🤭. Thanks #IKEASingapore for bringing a piece of Sweden to our sunny Singapore!

Safer digital marketing for every child — new toolkit with UNICEF We consider that children are the most important people in the world. They are our key stakeholders — family members of coworkers, users of our products, and the next generation of coworkers and leaders. That is why we partner with UNICEF to learn, improve, and help drive wider adoption of children’s rights in everyday business practice. Children are part of our everyday lives — at home, in our workspaces, and in the communities we serve. They use the same digital platforms we do, and we have a responsibility to ensure we respect children’s rights and well-being in the digital space. That’s why this toolkit matters. It helps us ask the right questions, challenge old habits, and design a digital environment where children are protected, and their rights always come first. In practice, the Digital Marketing Toolkit supports actions like: • Avoiding unintended targeting of minors • Making creative choices that are safe, inclusive and respectful • Ensuring no child’s data is collected or used for marketing • Choosing partners and platforms that uphold strong child rights standards • Embedding child rights checkpoints into daily marketing workflows We want to treat children in the digital space with the same responsibility and care as we do in physical spaces. And this toolkit is only the beginning. The next step is to raise awareness, share what we learn across the industry, and encourage others to start using the toolkit — so that protecting children’s rights becomes a natural part of everyday digital marketing. A safer digital future for children is possible, and it starts with the choices we make today. Want to dive deeper? Read more about our view on children's rights in the first comment.