From pioneering organic cotton in textiles to adapting its food menu with local flavours, India has evolved as a testing ground for some of furniture giant IKEA’s most innovative ideas in operations and sustainability. IKEA has been integrating India more deeply into its global ecosystem, with Bengaluru serving as one of just four global development hubs alongside Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City and Warsaw.

In the early 2000s, IKEA co-founded the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) with Gap, H&M, and other organisations to adopt standards that make the cotton supply chain more sustainable. “By 2015, we had transitioned to 100% better cotton. Since then, we’ve moved further to sourcing organic cotton as well. India was actually our first pilot market for organic cotton, and now we use Indian organic

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