In Sundsvall, we find the world’s fourth ever IKEA store, which coincidentally celebrates 60 years this year, as we also celebrate that our founder, Ingvar Kamprad, would have turned 100. The 1,000 km down to Bölsö, the Kamprad family farm outside Älmhult, is a way to honour his legacy, stopping in many places where IKEA has made an impact, and ending in a place that was very close to his heart, and where much of the Ikano and IKEA spirit still lives today.

On Friday, 28 August, our cyclists reached the finish line in Bölsö, and thanks to all our amazing donors, they could hand over a check of EUR 169,282 to Mrs. Berta Kamprad’s Cancer Foundation. We’re eternally grateful for all your generous donations, we wouldn’t have been able to do this without you! Together we beat last year’s amazing result and made an even bigger donation to the vital cancer research funded by Mrs. Berta Kamprad’s Cancer Foundation at Lund University Hospital. Just like previous years, Ikano doubled every donation made.

In addition to our colleagues cycling across the country, we’ve involved all our other colleagues across all of Ikano. Just like last year, we’ve organising hikes in all our businesses, where Ikano makes an additional donation of EUR 40 or 20, for every 10 or 5 km hike. We’ve also added a new plank challenge this year, we’re Ikano makes a donation of increasing size, depending on how many minutes one can hold a plank. The minimum donation is EUR 10 for one minute, up to EUR 50 for anything above five minutes. We’ll get back with the final amount once we have all the details.

Thank you to everyone who’s donated!