This Black Friday, Ingka Group will highlight 4000 free assembly parts to keep good things going

The new campaign focus will build on the ‘Keep good things going’ campaign launched in May 2023, which highlighted the IKEA Buy Back Service and the As-Is areas and also included some countries holding Flea Market events outside stores.​ Since launching its first Buyback campaign in 2020, Ingka Group has seen over 736´000 items of furniture brought back to its stores. During the Black Friday week there will also be a small selection of offers for IKEA Family members, highlighting affordable offers, products and services that can help them save money and energy.  

“We are proud of the previous campaigns we have run since 2020 and this campaign is another opportunity for us to inspire and raise awareness of these services, which we offer all year round. Nuts, Bolts, Screws, Dowels, and fittings – we offer more than 4000 free assembly parts, supporting customers to upgrade or repair pieces of furniture. The assembly parts service is now available online and last year 1.8 million customers used this fully rolled out service with 21.9 million spare parts provided – but for most of IKEAs 900 million annual customers the service is a yet to be discovered benefit,” says Karen Pflug, CSO, Ingka Group.

Ingka Group has rolled out the assembly parts online service in 28 of its IKEA Retail countries. Customers could access assembly parts in the IKEA stores and through customer service previously, the online self-service brings great convenience to customers. With its customers continuing to face challenges to household finances, IKEA believes it is the right moment to broadly communicate the assembly parts online service and raise awareness, so customers know about this option.
 
“We have seen from our previous research that 89% of customers at least sometimes repair household products. But the number has been decreasing since 2021 with the biggest barrier for people being the lack of knowledge and services, followed by cost and time.¹ Our service is easy and simple for our customers to keep IKEA products in shape – whether it is a bookshelf they bought second hand or if they lost a bag of nuts and bolts after disassembling an item to move house,” concludes Karen Pflug.

Ingka Group continues to explore how to best reach its ambition to become a circular business and is testing a range of solutions. These solutions include repurposing As-Is areas, where, as well as continuing to be able to pick up products at a lower price, there are secondhand products, and information about maintaining, cleaning or personalising IKEA products.  

Buyback services continue to be available for customers all year round in 31 countries, allowing customers the opportunity to pass on and give their furniture a second life.  

¹ Source: People and Planet Consumer Insights and Trends 2023 survey by GlobeScan, to be published in October 2023)

*Assembly parts include screws, bolts etc., the parts required for assembling items. Furniture spare parts refer to replaceable parts of an item such as drawer fronts, tabletops etc. and other parts for electrical items e.g.cables – Spare parts – IKEA – IKEA

Related links: 

• Transitioning to circularity impacts everything we do (ikea.com) 
• For more information and if you want to know more about Ingka advocacy, please click here: Climate change advocacy 
• Ingka Group Reporting – Better planet | Ingka Group 

About Ingka Group:

With IKEA retail operations on 31 markets, Ingka Group is the largest IKEA retailer and represents about 90% of IKEA retail sales. It is a strategic partner to develop and innovate the IKEA business and help define common IKEA strategies. Ingka Group owns and operates IKEA sales channels under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. It has three business areas: IKEA Retail, Ingka Investments and Ingka Centres. Read more on  www.Ingka.com.