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Most people see IKEA as a furniture retailer.
They're not wrong, but they're missing half the story.
IKEA is also one of the world's biggest food companies. They have a massive investment arm managing billions in renewable energy. And they’ve pulled off what everyone else says is impossible: growing while cutting emissions.
Jesper Brodin is an IKEA man through and through.
He knows it inside and out, every product line, every market, every challenge.
At 26, he was the only person who applied to run IKEA Pakistan.
Thirty years later, he's been leading the 40-billion-euro Swedish giant with 170,000 employees for eight years through a pandemic, geopolitical chaos, war, and hyperinflation.
In 2020, IKEA wasn't selling online.
Six weeks later, all stores had gone digital.
A two-year plan compressed into 42 days. 55,000 days of closure worldwide and a turnover that fell by only 4%.
The company even made a profit, to the point of repaying all the state aid it received during the crisis.
But his biggest achievement might be proving the trade-off is a myth.
Under his leadership, IKEA grew by 24% and bet 4.2 billion euros on renewable energy.
An attempt to prove that a furniture giant can grow without proportionally increasing its environmental footprint.
In this episode, Jesper reveals:
A masterclass in leadership and sustainability with a CEO who spent 30 years proving that business success and planetary responsibility aren't opposites, but fuel for each other.
You can contact Jesper on Linkedin.
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