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How IKEA made us all a little bit more Swedish
You've tasted their meatballs and spent frantic hours attempting to navigate their labyrinthian stores. Now take a look at the numbers behind the success of the world's largest furniture manufacturer.
How big is big?
IKEA is Sweden's most identifiable brand
The five largest IKEA stores in the world:
- Stockholm, Sweden: 592,000 square feet
- Shanghai, China: 531,700 square feet
- Shenyang, China: 505,900 square feet
- Tianjin, China: 492,300 square feet
- Berlin Lichtenberg, Germany: 484, 400 square feet
And they're growing. IKEA opened seven new stores in 2011
- The average store measures 300,000 square feet. That's roughly the size of five football fields.
- IKEA invested $1.85 billion into new and existing stores in 2011.
Where in the World Do These Resources Come from?
- IKEA's 1,018 suppliers: 53 different countries
- Employees: 48 different nationalities
- 287 stores: 26 countries
- 28 distribution centers: 11 countries
An Army of Employees:
- Swedwood: 16,000
- Retail: 100,000
- Purchasing, distribution and wholesale: 14,300
- Swedspan:700
- Total: 131,000
Raw materials:
- In 2011 IKEA processed 476.7 million cubic feet of wood
- The IKEA range consists of some 9,500 products
- $5.8 million in inventory
- $1.6 million in food sales
- 208 million copies of IKEA catalog are printed annually
- 61 million copies of the bible are printed annually
- IKEA serves 150 million meatballs yearly
Powering this manufacturing powerhouse:
- 40 IKEA stores have been outfitted with solar panels
- IKEA operates 60 wind turbines
- Each day IKEA generates the energy needed to power 500-1,000 homes
All roads lead to IKEA
- In 2011, IKEA stores saw 655 million visitors
- It's estimated that one in 10 Europeans were conceived in an IKEA bed
- IKEA websites had 870 million visits in 2011
Employees by region
- North America: 12.6%
- Europe: 81.3%
- Russia, Asia and Australia: 6.1%
Sales by region:
- North America: 14%
- Europe: 79%
- Russia, Australia, Asia:7%
Top five countries by sales:
- U.S.A: 11%
- Germany:15%
- Sweden: 6%
- France:10%
- Italy:7%
IKEA's total yearly revenue in USD billion
- 2001:13.79
- 2005:19.89
- 2008:28.52
- 2011: 33.42
