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The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. Our business idea is to offer well-designed, functional and affordable, high-quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment. The IKEA Brand unites more than 200.000 co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners all over the world. It’s one brand, but it reaches millions of hearts and homes. Our value chain is unique. It includes everything from product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales – and of course it begins and ends with our customers. The IKEA retail business is operated through a franchise system. Today, 12 different groups of companies market and sell the IKEA product range under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Any jobs published on this page are offered by different companies operating under the IKEA Trademark. IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943.

The story of Søstrene Grene starts in 1973 in Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city, when the husband and wife team of Knud Cresten Vaupell Olsen and Inger Grene open a store which turns out to be one of a kind. The couple sets out to create a whole new and wonderful shopping experience that caters to the senses. A place where creative and inquisitive minds can feel right at home. They call the store Søstrene Grene (in English: The Grene Sisters), but today, the concept is also known as “the wonderful world of Anna and Clara”. With a history at the Ballet Academy in Aarhus and a love of classical music, Knud Cresten sets out to create a store concept that artfully combines music, beautiful product displays and storytelling. And in 1973, he comes up with the idea for the sisters Anna and Clara, who come to embody all of his and Inger’s values and visions for the company. From day one, Anna and Clara invite guests to explore the labyrinth of aisles, where pleasant lighting, classical music and the smell of untreated wooden crates create a unique experience for anyone who enters the store. Along the store’s aisles, the product displays stir the guest’s creativity as they make new finds and set their imagination free. Even more important, however, is that the guests leave their hectic daily lives behind before journeying through the wonderful world of Anna and Clara. Today, Søstrene Grene is represented in many countries around the world and the chain is owned and operated by the second generation of the family, the brothers Mikkel and Cresten Grene. The headquarters are situated in Aarhus – the city where it all began. There, a team of Scandinavian designers and purchasers ensures that the sisters’ distinctive Nordic feel is present in every design that ends up in the store. The aim is for the Søstrene Grene stores to continue to provide a refined and innovative product range, setting the stage for great finds and positive experiences.

Elgiganten er Danmarks førende varehuskæde indenfor mærkevareprodukter i hjemmeelektronik og hårde-hvidevarer. Elgiganten blev etableret i Danmark i 1996 og havde ved årets regnskabsafslutning over 2.300 medarbejdere fordelt på 45 varehuse landet over samt en af landets største webshops på Elgiganten.dk. Elgiganten tager socialt ansvar – en kamp mod digital eksklusion. Teknologi har stadig større betydning i vores liv, men der er opstået en teknologisk ’klasseforskel’. Flere grupper i samfundet kan ikke følge med udviklingen. De primære årsager er alder, økonomi eller handicap og research viser, at flere frygter, at denne kløft vil blive større i fremtiden. Derfor oprettede Elgiganten i 2017 'Elgiganten Foundation'. En fond der har til formål at sætte fokus på problemet – og gøre noget ved det. Med Elgiganten Foundation får dem, der ikke kan følge med den teknologiske udvikling, adgang til teknologi og hjælpes med bedre at forstå den. Hvert år får en lang række organisationer og foreninger en håndsrækning i form af produkter, vejledning eller donationer. Det arbejde er vi ekstremt stolte af! Fra brug-og-smid-væk til cirkulær økonomi. Elektronikbranchen er under forandring og vi er ved at løbe tør for materialer, der indgår i produktionen af ny teknologi. Hvis vi skal have produkter at sælge i morgen, skal vi derfor reparere og genbruge den elektronik, vi sælger i dag. Vi skal fremhæve produkter med lavest energiforbrug, som påvirker miljøet mindst muligt - og vi skal hjælpe vores kunder med at træffe oplyste valg, så produkter opdateres, opgradere og repareres frem for at blive smidt i skraldespanden. Elgiganten A/S indgår i Elkjøp Nordic-koncernen, der i regnskabsåret 2021/2022 omsatte for 48,7 milliarder norske kroner. Der er i alt 427 varehuse og ca. 11.000 medarbejdere i Norden (inklusive franchise). Alle nordiske varehuse forsynes fra det over 100.000 kvm store centrallager i Jönköping, Sverige. Elkjøp-koncernen ejes af britiske Currys plc.