The year in brief

• Turnover for Ikano Retail surpassed EUR 1 billion for the first time.
• Women exceeded men in our management teams while locals led the way in our store and centre steering teams at 69%.
• We used clean energy to power our business units generated by the 32,126 solar panels on our stores and centres. (Enough to power almost 2,000 average households, or two IKEA stores a year for free!) That same year, we were busy installing another 18,140 panels that would double our output for 2023 – enough energy from the sun to power almost 4,000 average households.
• We digitised our Recycle Buy Back Centre at IPC, linking customers’ recycling efforts to our loyalty programme – increasing volume of waste recycled by 75% in five months and growing membership by 364%.
• Across our 13 IKEA stores, storage organisation followed by bedroom furniture were the top-two highest earning home furnishing categories, with 158,463 pieces of BURHULT shelves sold.
• As pandemic restrictions eased, IKEA Food saw 55.7 million plant, meat, chicken and vegetable balls sold. A 47.5% increase compared with the 2021 sales.
• On 11 August, we opened IKEA Puebla. At 11,500 m2, it’s our 13th store and Mexico’s second.
• Megabangna, our retail destination in East Bangkok, attracted more than 32,000 people at its New Year’s Eve party, putting us in the top three destinations in Bangkok for celebrating year-end countdowns.