Social business partner: Ramesh flowers
Business partner since 2005
Product scope: Handmade products from organic waste material
Ramesh Flowers works with nature to empower women, creating income opportunities for women in rural areas around Tuticorin, India. The company has been one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of home fragrance and home decor products in India since 1982. Back then, it consisted of a handful of people – today that number has grown into the thousands, most of whom are women from rural areas. Ramesh Flowers works in harmony with nature to create home and lifestyle products like candles and essential oils using natural, botanical waste. 400 artisans are involved in creating handcrafted items from nutshell, bark, and more. IKEA supplier since 2005, Ramesh Flowers became an approved social business in 2020.
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Social business partner: Rangasutra
Business partner since 2013
Product scope: Handwoven and hand-stitched textile products.
Rangsutra works to empower women, nurture local handicraft traditions, and create jobs for women in rural areas across India. The artisans mainly women, are shareholders in the company and come from villages and small towns in the Uttar Pradesh area. It specialises in traditional Indian embroidery, textile, and grass weaving. Our collaboration has created 1400 jobs and several IKEA collections, with each product handcrafted using techniques rooted in a long tradition of Indian craftsmanship.
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Social business partner: Rope
Business partner since 2024
Product scope: Handwoven wicker and natural fibres.
ROPE creating jobs and income opportunities in Tamil Nadu, India. The company contributes to formalising the craft sector where, traditionally, there is a lack of safe and stable employment opportunities. ROPE recently invested in a new factory set-up in Sivakasi, an area known for firecracker factories employing female workers in unsafe environments. The area was specifically chosen with the aim to support these women workers by creating access to fair paying, safe work.
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Social business partner: Spun
Business partner since 2024
Product scope: Handwoven and hand and machine-stitched textile products.
Spun empowers women and enables growth of entire communities in rural India. It provides jobs for women who produce skillfully crafted, sustainably produced products and offers educational programmes, environmental and health initiatives. Their work has made a big impact already - most of all on its employees, most of whom work in production for IKEA.
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