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How IKEA Engineered Flatpack Empire Through Relentless Cost Cutting
In this episode of The CEO Diary, Lucas and Luna explore how IKEA's obsession with reducing costs — from the design table to the warehouse floor — created a global furniture empire. They trace the company's origin story: founder Ingvar Kamprad's early insight that a disassembled table cost 70% less to ship than an assembled one. We look at how IKEA's designers compete to shave pennies off production, why the company owns its own forests, and how the flatpack revolutionized global supply chains. Lucas explains how Kamprad's frugal culture persists even after his death…
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