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Jesper Brodin

  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    Sweden backs Ikea boss to lead UN refugee agency

    Jesper Brodin nominated by centre-right government after eight years in charge of furniture giant

    Jesper Brodin stands outside an Ikea store, wearing a white shirt with hands on hips, in front of a yellow wall.
  • Wednesday, 13 August, 2025
    Ikea
    Ikea appoints former store manager as first non-Swedish boss

    Juvencio Maeztu joined furniture retailer in 2001 and ran the India business before becoming deputy chief of Ingka

    Jesper Brodin and Juvencio Maeztu standing in an Ikea store
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    Ikea
    Ikea looks to expand second-hand marketplace across Europe

    Planned extension of peer-to-peer Preloved platform follows successful pilots in Oslo and Madrid

    Second-hand Ikea store in Eskilstuna, Sweden
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Ikea
    Ikea posts first drop in revenue since 2020 after cutting prices

    Flat-pack furniture retailer returns to policy of lowering furniture costs after pandemic-era increases

    Shoppers outside an Ikea store in Tokyo, Japan
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Ikea
    Ikea launches secondhand marketplace to compete with eBay

    Furniture retailer challenges digital classified ads ‘oligopoly’ with peer-to-peer sales platform for its products

    A montage of the Ikea and eBay logos with an armchair in the background
  • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
    InterviewThe CEO
    ‘We like Ikea, but it’s not working for us’: how Jesper Brodin dealt with unhappy customers

    Furniture group’s CEO invested in online business and tested smaller stores as rivals circled

    Jesper Brodin CEO Ikea Group - portrait shot outside Ikea in Helsingborg Sweden
  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    The Top LineAnne-Sylvaine Chassany
    CEOs forced to ditch decades of forecasting habits

    Privately owned Ikea has shed the traditional budget to focus on ‘scenario planning’

  • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
    Ikea
    Ikea warns stock shortages likely to last another year

    World’s largest furniture retailer faces supply chain struggles but pandemic has shifted sales online

    A sofa in the showroom at the Ikea store in Croydon, UK
  • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
    Business InsightRichard Milne
    Ikea seeks to disrupt itself before it is disrupted

    World’s largest furniture retailer rolls out a series of experiments that could uproot its business model

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
    Business InsightRichard Milne
    Ikea says it’s easier being green if you are private

    Listed companies must contend with quarterly results and shareholder pressure on spending

    FILE PHOTO: Customers walk by a placard reading "Act Now" as they leave the IKEA store in Kaarst near Duesseldorf, Germany, April 3, 2019. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo
  • Wednesday, 10 October, 2018
    Personal & Household Goods
    Ikea eyes transformation of stores in response to consumer shift

    Retailer aims to use out-of-town outlets as distribution sites and unveils assembly push

    A customer shops at an IKEA store in Madrid, Spain, October 10, 2018. REUTERS/Susana Vera
  • Monday, 16 April, 2018
    News in-depthEuropean companies
    Ikea unpacks new model as it adapts to consumer shift

    World’s largest furniture retailer experiments with alternative ways to spur sales

    Ikea’s city-centre experiments have included a pop-up store in Shoreditch, London where customers could cook their own food alongside a sous chef for up to 20 friends
  • Tuesday, 10 April, 2018
    European companies
    Ikea vows ‘transformation’ as it reshapes business model

    Flat-pack group speeds up shift to city centres, eyes VR tools and furniture rental

    Ikea is rethinking its model of customers buying furniture in-store to take away and assemble it themselves at home
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2017
    Personal & Household Goods
    Ikea to take TaskRabbit to Canada and beyond

    Swedish retailer plans to expand newly acquired odd-jobs website from US and UK

    epa06260693 A customer walks in newly opened IKEA store in Kaarst, Germany, 12 October 2017. After a construction phase of one and a half years the world's most sustainable store of the Swedish home furnishing company IKEA opens and reflects the theme of sustainability in all its facets - from the use of environmentally friendly techniques and an exceptional architectural concept to regional service providers and local cooperations. EPA-EFE/SASCHA STEINBACH
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2017
    European companies
    Ikea moves focus to city centre stores

    Reorganisation to adapt to changing shopping habits hurts profits

    Ikea has tested new formats such as this pop-up store in London’s Shoreditch last year
  • Tuesday, 10 October, 2017
    Personal & Household Goods
    Ikea looks for further deals after TaskRabbit purchase

    Furniture group aims to pick up the pace after coming late to e-commerce

    Ikea is moving away from out-of-town premises and is trialling a store in central Stockholm
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2017
    Business InsightRichard Milne
    Ikea must break the mould to overcome challenges

    Flat-pack retailer’s new chief needs to address questions over structure and strategy

    An employee is at work at a warehouse of world's largest furniture retailer Ikea, on March 18, 2014 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. AFP PHOTO / JEFF PACHOUD        (Photo credit should read JEFF PACHOUD/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Sunday, 28 May, 2017
    Lucy Kellaway
    You heard it here first: hold fast to your antiques

    The tables are turning on Ikea and the fashion for Skandi tat

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