Success Story
IKEA: The efficient way to information
IKEA managed the production of its catalogs for 48 countries with Online Media Net (OMN): with progress tracking down to the individual page, country-specific merging of text and images, and automatic checks against the CI guidelines. We worked together from 2009 to 2025.
At a glance
Company
IKEA
Industry
Home furnishings retail
Solution
OMN – management of catalog production
Modules
Project management, workflows, Flatplan, InDesign Server integration
Scope
Catalogs for 48 countries and languages
Period
2009–2025
“OMN is a central place for information and quality control. For us, this is great because IKEA has a very special way of working with text and color files. Due to the large number of languages spoken in the 48 countries where IKEA operates, we have a large amount of data to process.”
Henrik Lundby, Production Specialist, Pre-media Quality Assurance, Media Production at Inter IKEA Systems Service AB
Initial situation
One catalog, 48 countries.
Operating as a franchise system, IKEA is a world-famous supplier of home furnishings. At the time of the success story, 154,000 employees served more than 770 million visitors a year in 338 IKEA stores worldwide.
Its success is based not least on the IKEA concept: functional, attractively designed products at a very competitive price. Producing the catalog for 48 countries came with three tasks: securing the production process, solving translation into 48 languages and reliably complying with the CI guidelines.
Project objectives
Project goals.
01
A reliable production process
Make the production process easier and safer and monitor the progress of the versions.
02
48 languages
Overcome a technical problem in translating texts into 48 languages.
03
CI compliance
A system that automatically checks files for compliance with IKEA’s CI guidelines.
The solution
OMN as the central production platform.
Planning, workflows and page production for the catalogs came together in OMN – with connected InDesign servers for page creation.
Transparent catalog production
OMN not only showed how far the production of each individual catalog had progressed, but also made every single page visible in its current state.
Text and images by country
OMN merged the color files with the corresponding country-specific text files for 48 countries.
Automatic CI checks
Files were automatically checked for compliance with IKEA’s CI guidelines.
Further publications
Production of the IKEA Family magazine also ran on the OMN-based production platform.
In figures
48
countries and languages in one catalog production
Results
What IKEA achieved.
Catalog production in view
The progress of every catalog and the current state of every page could be viewed at any time.
Country editions from one source
Text and images were merged automatically for 48 countries.
Brand strengthening
OMN was the central place for information and brought quality controls together – further strengthening the brand.
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