Making healthy and conscious choices part of everyday life
At Ingka Centres, we share the IKEA vision to create a better everyday life for the many people. Together with IKEA and our partners, we work to bring this vision to life through our meeting places – places where people can come together and take part in community life.
We are taking practical steps across our operations to use resources more efficiently and create more opportunities for circular and healthy choices. This includes measures to improve energy efficiency, increase the use of renewable energy, and support repair and reuse activities. We also create spaces and opportunities for people to connect, learn and share ideas.
Our focus is on practical experiences that can inspire people in their everyday lives.
Our approach
1. Inspiring and enabling healthier and conscious everyday choices
We create opportunities to explore, repair reuse and other circular practices as well as healthy choices through the services, experiences and partnerships found across our meeting places.
From repair and reuse initiatives to plant-forward food offers and circular concepts, we give visitors the opportunity to discover practical ways to extend the use of products and resources and make healthy and conscious choices easier in everyday life.
2. Taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Across our portfolio, we are taking practical steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our operations. These include improving energy efficiency, managing resources responsibly and increasing the use of renewable electricity and renewable heating and cooling. We also support lower-emission ways of travelling to our meeting places, including EV charging and access to public transport, walking and cycling where relevant to the location.
3. Being fair and equal
We want our meeting places to be welcoming, accessible and relevant to the many people. Through local partnerships, services and programmes, we support participation, skills development and opportunities for people who may face barriers in everyday life. This includes how we work with co-workers, partners and suppliers, as well as how we create access, participation and opportunity locally.
Our aim is to create spaces and opportunities for people to take part in community life, to connect and learn together.
Example 1: Working together for a more transparent retail industry Sustainable Retail Index Association (SRIA)
Progress happens through collaboration. That's why Ingka Centres is a permanent member of the Sustainable Retail Index Association (SRIA), an industry initiative that brings retailers and partners together to improve transparency around sustainability performance in retail. The Sustainable Retail Index Association (SRIA) was launched in February 2026 by Ingka Centres, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Good On You and WWF France to help improve sustainability transparency across the retail sector. Through the Sustainable Retail Index (SRI), the association provides a common framework that helps retailers and property companies assess environmental and social performance, identify opportunities for improvement and increase transparency across the retail ecosystem.
Example 2: Making reuse and repair easier to explore Matkus Luuppi, Finland
Matkus Luuppi is a circular economy hub located next to Matkus Meeting Place in Kuopio, Finland. Developed through a partnership between Ingka Centres Kuopio Oy, Jätekukko Oy, Elävä Foundation and Elävä Kauppa Oy, it brings together reuse-focused retail, material collection and sorting services, educational activities and community engagement in one destination. Matkus Luuppi serves as the primary pilot site for the EU-supported ICELIFE (ReStyle, RePair, ReUse) programme.
Love your Stuff For Longer
Our annual “Love Your Stuff For Longer” initiative gives people opportunities to reuse and exchange things through activities such as peer-to-peer exchanges. In FY25, 337,000 visitors across our global portfolio engaged with the initiative.
Example 3: Opening pathways to employment Meeting Place Academies
Across Spain, Italy and Poland, our Meeting Place Academies work together with local organisations to provide practical training, workplace exposure and skills development for refugees and people at risk of social exclusion. These programmes help participants build experience, strengthen skills and explore pathways into employment.
Example 4:
Energy efficiency in 2026
33 of our 34 operational meeting places purchase certified renewable electricity for their own operations. One of our meeting places currently uses renewable heating and cooling solutions. Across the portfolio, 30 meeting places provide electric vehicle charging facilities, either through our own operations or together with our partners, and 15 have on-site solar PV installations. Together, these measures contribute to our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our own operations and provide options that can support lower-emission travel to and from our meeting places.
Sustainability is not something we work on alone
Together with IKEA and our wider network of partners, we develop services, activities and experiences that support healthy and conscious choices and create opportunities for more people to take part. By working together, we can bring different ideas and experiences to our meeting places.
Continuing the work
We take a long-term approach to how we develop and operate our meeting places.
This includes ongoing work to improve energy efficiency, increase the use of renewable energy, develop repair and reuse initiatives, and create welcoming and accessible meeting places. We will continue to report on our progress, including relevant results and challenges.