Part 1: Why managing food waste makes sense for Ingka Group
In September last year, Ingka Group made a minority investment in Winnow, an innovative UK-based company that has developed an AI-enabled food waste tracking and analytics solution to help reduce food waste in commercial kitchens. Every year, Ingka Group serves meals to many millions of people across its stores and is aiming to halve food waste from IKEA Restaurants and Cafés, IKEA Bistros and Swedish Food Markets by the end of August 2020.Food waste is a complex issue, but IKEA and Winnow are proving the solutions to the problem don’t have to be.
In FY19, many IKEA stores continued to